minnie driver claiming she was ''sick of being super famous''

[Balgoresboy]

I saw this in a headline article today online. Eh when I think of ''super famous'' I think Brad Pitt, Jenifer Aniston, Tom Cruise, J-Lo... generally people the majority of people would be familiar with and recognise their face/be a household name.

AIBU to think this b list actress is or never was ''super famous''? I struggle to think of projects she was in and I wouldn't even recognise her if I saw her on the street or on a picture. I am 35 btw too incase any1 thinks I'm too young so remember the 90s well.

Yes, the film "I give it a year" is hilarious. Loved her in that.

@EngelbertsRumpispink

Minnie Drver had become very well known for a time, and I was glad for her. I liked her. I don't know who Neve Campell or Mena Suvari are. (I know who Mira Sorvino is, though. ha.)

Seems you just had other interests at the time that Minnie Driver was famous.

I will say, however that it is cringeworthy if she said, "super famous".
If those were her actual words, then she has just brought herself down a peg, in likeability.

I don’t think she even remotely said what the OP is suggesting.

www.theguardian.com/film/2021/apr/03/minnie-driver-i-did-not-have-the-appetite-to-be-a-big-movie-star

@CorianderBee

Sounds like that's HER quote. So she's called herself super famous, not the press.

Can you send a link to where she said this?

@mizu

Yes, the film "I give it a year" is hilarious. Loved her in that.

Her character is every fed up mumsntter ever in I Give It A Year

How to out yourself as a Mumsnetter...

Ah Gaby Roslin, now that's an example of super famous that's hard to dispute. What a hero.

I know who she is but don't think of her as being "super famous".

With it reading any of the thread

Minnie Driver very famous for

Sleepers
Good will hunting
Grosse point blank (love that movie)
Phantom of the opera

All very well known films no?

I’d say she was A list, just. Great that she made it by being an actress, not via the other routes or by being a bimbo.

As for being too famous, we meh, suck it up.

I remember her because she surfs, and a celebrity (albeit B-list) female surfing was fab for women's surfing in general. Like Cameron Diaz.

I wonder if this is a case of her words being taken out of context/made up to get a headline that would get people going...and look, it has.

Reminds me of that song 'Lifestyles of the rich and the famous, they're always complaining, always complaining'.

I guess from her point of view she was famous in the sense of constantly being papped.

10 years ago wasn’t she interviewed about leaving Hollywood for a new career in Country and Western?

Thanks @MrsPellegrino I was racking my brains there. Yes, The Riches. I loved it when it started and loved Minnie's character, but thought it got a bit 'sublime to the ridiculous' as the show went along so I can see why it didnt get extended

Not sure about the point of this discussion being whether she is super famous or not ('I'd say no though Grosse Point Blank is one of my favourite films). The thing that strikes me is that I'm bored with successful, rich people droning on about their struggles. I realise I'll probably get flamed so I'm not going to name names but wouldn't a few weeks in a minimum wage role remind these people how lucky they are and help them get the problems their privileged lives present into perspective?

I haven't RTFT but Minnie Driver is currently in the first episode of the second series of Modern Love on Prime. It's a bit of a tear jerker. Tom Burke is in it too. They're both great in it.

I thought successful rich actors droned about their struggles because they felt they were slipping from the public consciousness (as we are all too shallow to remember more than three actors) and without a blockbuster/messy divorce/my painful struggle saga they feared the ignominy of 'who?'

Isn't it just a publicity stunt?

Confess I haven't knowingly seen any of Minnie Driver's films...

“What’s the barometer [of success]?” she asks, bemused. “I’m 51, I live in Malibu in a house I bought with the proceeds of the work I’ve done. OK, it wasn’t a continual ascent, it was pitted, but that’s OK. And it’s true I definitely got sick of big films and being super-famous. I didn’t like that. But I take issue with the idea it didn’t work out because I am living proof it did.”

After the international success of Good Will Hunting, which made her name and those of her co-stars Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, she had the full encounter with “super-famous”. Driver dated Damon until he announced that he was single on The Oprah Winfrey Show, a gesture that Driver, with some justification, called “fantastically inappropriate”, and was thereafter linked with John Cusack, Harrison Ford, Josh Brolin and the Foo Fighters drummer, Taylor Hawkins. She says she was once driving through Los Angeles with her film producer sister Kate. They admired a star-studded poster for a big new release. Minnie leant over to tell her sister, “I’ve f*ed the whole billboard.”

I know who she is,but I can't think of anything she's been in!

Well it's Hollywood, most of them are too busy navel-gazing to realise they don't count in reality.

I lived in the States in the 90s, she was huge there, in the way that the entertainment industry media just seem to revere certain people for a while. She was always being talked about, what she was doing/wearing etc. so she must have been followed by paparazzi all the time. I can imagine that is not a pleasant existence, and justifiable to say “super famous” if other people make their living from photographing you taking the dog for a walk, or nipping out for milk.

Minnie Driver certainly used to be quite famous, but young fledglings might not know that. Incidentally, ~I originally misread the post as being about a mini-cab driver being famous. Heck yeah, loads of customers can equal fame.

48 yo here 🙋🏻‍♀️ of course she was famous in the 90s. As has been said before, film/TV headliners are meaningless when you regard someone's game. Particularly pre social media and internet.
I loved her, I wanted to be her!

Nobody has mentioned her as Trevor Eve's strumpet in the Politicians Wife. She was brilliant in that. I wanted to be as raunchy as she was with my them boyf but I didn't quite have the effect 😂

I agree with pp who loves a child of the 90s telling us grown ups of the 90s who was relevant 🤣🤣

fame not game

Did you read the article? The quote you've given is completely out of context.

And I'd say she's super famous. She been in loads of films, been nominated for and won loads of awards (including Oscars and actors guild). If day she's way more famous than Neve Campbell

MD was very famous in the 90s, probably due to the fact that she was an English character actress who got roles in quite a lot of big Hollywood films, not many people can achieve that. Plus she had a few high profile boyfriends, that made you famous back then.

Now, you can go on Love Island or be an influencer and you're famous and very important, apparently.

Of course MD wasn't up there with Sandra Bullock or Cameron Diaz but was well known. I think her quote wasn't meant to be taken literally, like "I was the most famous actress out there" it was just a throwaway comment in a telephone interview.

Very strange that there is a thread with over 500 posts arguing over how famous a woman once was.

She was very famous! Is also in Grosse Point Blank which is one of the best films ever!