Minnie Driver Recalls 'Pervy' Director Who Asked Her to Fake An Orgasm During an Audition

Jennifer Connelly looks very stylish while arriving for a few interviews in New York City this week.

a real-life, famed psychoanalyst, author, journalist and “parapsychologist” from Hungary who was a leading authority on poltergeists, hauntings and other paranormal phenomena and in the 1930s advanced the theory that such hauntings could be the result of past unresolved mental tensions. The film is based on a true story of Fodor’s pursuit of “Gef,” an allegedly talking mongoose that inhabited the home of a family on the Isle of Man and attracted many ghost hunters, as well as the British tabloids, in the 1930s.

SUNDAY AM UPDATE: Refresh for more analysis and chart Focus Features’ Downton Abbey: A New Era is coming in at $16M, and while some might snipe that it’s lower than the first one’s robust $31M start, particularly against a production cost that’s double from the first at $40M, keep in mind this is a sequel to period drama franchise, not Marvel. For Focus, it’s their best opening during the pandemic, besting Northman‘s $12.3M start. By the way, New Era‘s opening is right where tracking spotted it earlier this week.

A fitting tribute. Naomi Judd‘s husband, Larry Strickland, talked about the country singer’s legacy while recalling her final days in an emotional speech.

Julian Dennison (Godzilla vs Kong), Minnie Driver, James Rolleston (The Dark Horse) and Erana James are set to star in New Zealand coming-of-age tale One Winter from directors Paul Middleditch and Hamish Bennett.

Matt Damon were the "it" couple, but the romance eventually faded. Now, the actress is reflecting on the "tabloid-y" relationship with her "Good Will Hunting" co-star."I wouldn't change any of it," she told ITV's "This Morning." "It's magic."Minnie remembers that time in 1997 and 1998 "so fondly," despite their split was "so dramatically reported on."The Oscar-nominated star has been opening up about the life while promoting her new book, "Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays." Of course, her two-year relationship with Matt is discussed in the pages."Matt Damon was just this lovely, talented, great person who was also very young and got famous very fast," she said on "The Chris Evans Breakfast Show with Sky." "And people don't always behave well in situations when you're under pressure.""It was a very sweet romance that we had," she continued.

Minnie Driver is reflecting on her time with Matt Damon.

Given that Francis Ford Coppola‘s independently-financed $100 million-plus budgeted passion project film “Megalopolis,” is one he’s been talking about for over two decades at least—a project he once abandoned and only recently came back to —when news arrived that Oscar Isaac had ultimately passed on the lead role, it made lots of cinephiles dying to see the project very nervous. Well, chalk that set back up to a blip as the director of “The Godfather” trilogy and “Apocalypse Now” has not only found a new leading man, but a whole new supporting cast as well.

Minnie Driver is opening up about how she almost lost her role in Good Will Hunting.

Minnie Driver is reflecting on a "devastating" moment in her life. The actress, who recently wrote a new book titled "Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays," alleged that a producer told her she wasn’t "hot enough" to star in the 1997 film "Good Will Hunting." "It was devastating," the 52-year-old told The Cut. "To be told at 26 that you’re not sexy when you maybe just got over all your teenage angst and started to think, you know, ‘Maybe in the right light and the right shoes and the right dress, I’m all right.’" Minnie Driver never named the producer in question.

Denise Draper, formerly an agent in ICM’s unscripted and alternative team, has joined management and production firm Range Media Partners.

Minnie Driver has revealed how "devastated" she felt to hear as a young woman that she was "not sexy".MORE: HELLO! launches Jubilee T-shirt collection to celebrate Queen Elizabeth in styleThe actress was Oscar-nominated for her role alongside Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting, but shared in a new interview that she almost didn't get the part because a producer told her she was not attractive enough to play Matt's on-screen girlfriend.WATCH: Good Will Hunting trailer"It was devastating," she said. "To be told at 26 that you’re not sexy when you maybe just got over all your teenage angst, and started to think, you know, 'Maybe in the right light and the right shoes and the right dress, I’m all right.'""I certainly had insecurities growing up.

Zack Sharf Minnie Driver was only 26 years old when she auditioned for the role of Skylar in Gus Van Sant’s “Good Will Hunting.” It’s a performance that would earn Driver an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress, but it’s one she recently told The Telegraph almost never happened because producer Harvey Weinstein believed “nobody would want to fuck her.” Driver said Weinstein sent this sexist note along to the film’s casting director.“I remember feeling so devastated until I realized, ‘Hold on, just consider the source for a minute. That is an unutterable pig – why on earth are you worried about this fuck saying that you are not sexy?’” Driver said.

EXCLUSIVE: Simon Pegg (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part One) and Minnie Driver (Rosaline) have signed on to star in Nandor Fodor and The Talking Mongoose, a dark comedy from writer-director Adam Sigal (Chariot), which has entered production in Leeds.

Minnie Driver is not afraid to stand up for herself – even when she was just starting out in the entertainment business.

tweet calling out The UK Times.“It’s so curious that my life still seems to be presented merely as an adjunct to the men I’ve dated,” her tweet read. “I had such a great+interesting conversation with this journalist — sorry the distillation came down to dudes.”The piece, which includes an excerpt from Driver’s recently released memoir, “Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays,” has the salacious headline: “The Director Told Me: ‘Fake an Orgasm.

Minnie Driver has just released her memoir, and an excerpt from the book, Managing Expectations, finds her looking back at a horrific audition that left her “humiliated.”