Minnie Driver on Why Being Told She Wasn’t “Hot Enough” by ‘Good Will Hunting’ Producer Was So “Deva

Minnie Driver says hearing from a Good Will Hunting producer that she wasn’t “hot enough” to play her Oscar-nominated role “could have been way more damaging than it was,” but still says as a young Hollywood talent, it was “devastating” to hear.  In a new interview with The Cut, the Starstruck actress opened up about the experiences of breaking out in Hollywood as a 20-something woman, including the intense public interest around her personal life and the damaging things said to actresses about

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From a typical Hollywood sexy bombshell type of looks, she was very average looking in Good Will Hunting. But that is okay, for a movie like that I rather see an average looking man in Matt Damon and an average looking woman like Driver.

Meryl Streep, Glenn Close >> very average looking woman. But drop dead gorgeous with their acting skills.