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Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver

Simon Pegg

Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6598 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Minnie questions Simon Pegg, actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. Simon shares what his daughter has taught him about love, reveals how he became a part of the Mission: Impossible and Star Trek franchises, and Simon and Minnie come up with the next big holiday movie.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:10.0

I came dressed as Lady Diana.

0:13.0

I'd just so you know.

0:14.4

I thought there was a sort of demure innocence about you when you came in.

0:16.9

It was so funny.

0:17.7

My friend was at my house and she was like,

0:19.9

why are you wearing a Victorian

0:21.0

nighting out of the house? And I was like, all right. Lots of people are wearing these. And she was like,

0:27.2

they're not. People are like, they've seen a ghost. I thought you were a ghost. Jerry, you

0:34.5

came back. Just didn't know this place was haunted. Hello, I'm Mini Driver.

0:40.3

Welcome to Mini Questions Season 2.

0:43.3

I've always loved Proust's Questionette.

0:46.3

It was originally an 19th century parlour game where players would ask each other 35 questions

0:52.3

aimed at revealing the other player's true nature.

0:55.7

It's just the scientific method, really.

0:58.7

In asking different people the same set of questions,

1:01.5

you can make observations about which truths appear to be universal.

1:05.4

I love this discipline.

1:07.5

And it made me wonder, what if these questions were just the jumping off point? What greater

1:12.2

depths would be revealed if I asked these questions as conversation starters with thought leaders

1:17.7

and trailblazers across all these different disciplines? So I adapted Proust questionnaire,

1:23.1

and I wrote my own seven questions that I personally think are pertinent to a person's story.

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