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.

I do think it’s daft complaining of being famous when you act for a living though.
Like any freelancer the key to getting work is for people to know who you are and what you have been in. And the point of film is to get as many people to see it as possible so being “ super famous” helps. The fact she is distinctive looking means she gets recognised out of work.

@Lightisnotwhite

I do think it’s daft complaining of being famous when you act for a living though. Like any freelancer the key to getting work is for people to know who you are and what you have been in. And the point of film is to get as many people to see it as possible so being “ super famous” helps. The fact she is distinctive looking means she gets recognised out of work.

The thing is no one has actually linked to an article where she's said this - it's just the OP's thread title

For every famous actor, there are probably a hundred or more that rarely get recognised.

Fame is a potential side-effect of the job, but it's far from a sure thing. And sometimes the fame comes from a film that nobody expects to become a huge hit.

Also, I'm not sure that people really understand the implications of fame, even if they do seek it out. I think it's perfectly ok to think that you want to do one type of job, but decide you don't like things that come along with it. For example I know former teachers and police officers that have moved to other roles, because of things we all know are linked to the job. (long/unsocial hours)

@KidneyBeans

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/minnie-driver-i-got-sick-of-being-super-famous-l50zgvtlx

There you go. Wouldn't want you to think the op made it up.

I loved Minnie in Phantom of the Opera, she was very good

Obviously I know who she is, and DH does too, but I agree a little with the OP that I would not class her an A lister. More B list. JMHO.

I would not have ever called her super famous.

did anyone mention her in Will and Grace. excellent in that too.

What a shitty thread. She comes across and genuinely nice and if you’ve got the paps on your back a lot of the time then she’s not wrong

@Excelthetube, I agree with you. I don’t think being on TV gives people carte blanche to follow you around, scream insults at you and then to profit from your photo, which is the MO for most paparazzi.

I’m a huge fan of MD and I particularly loved her in The Riches with Eddie Izzard. There’s a jealous meanest to these types of threads. Someone should tell people that envy, isn’t a good luck.

Remember though Minnie was famous at the height of 90s early a 00s paparazzi / Perez Hilton and TMZ culture. I'd say it was hell-ish even for a semi-famous actress and the papers loved criticising her as she wasn't teensy / simpering idiot.

[quote Voicefancier]@KidneyBeans

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/minnie-driver-i-got-sick-of-being-super-famous-l50zgvtlx

There you go. Wouldn't want you to think the op made it up.[/quote]
Yep you're quite right. An actress quoted as a headline in one of the UK's biggest broadsheet newspapers 20-odd years after her most successful films

I mean that's the epitome of not-famous isn't it...
Wonder why the journalist bothered interviewing her then putting that interview behind a paywall when there's clearly no public interest in her...,

@KidneyBeans

And 20 years after she’s still got paparazzo stalking her with her son while she’s trying to buy toilet roll. I don’t even like running into people I know at the grocery, can imagine what it would be like having strangers popping up with a camera!

No idea why her career tanked. But reading the title of your post, I didn't immediately think of the actress, I was thinking of somebody who drove Minnie (mouse) and thinking whaaaat?

Did she really ever say that though? A lot of times, actresses are quoted out of context to perpetuate the bad image they already have.

A few actresses, Mira Sorwino was one of them, were labelled difficult to work with and all it turned out to be was that they fought off Harvey Weinstein.

Just reading the OP's posts, wow, 7 pages of arguing hard that minnie driver never had any right to consider herself famous, and yet, for seven pages, people say well I know who she is, she was in x, she was in y, she was nominated for an oscar, she came across well in Red......

and the OP keeeeeeeeeps going. Wow.

@PearlyBird

Just reading the OP's posts, wow, 7 pages of arguing hard that minnie driver never had any right to consider herself famous, and yet, for seven pages, people say well I know who she is, she was in x, she was in y, she was nominated for an oscar, she came across well in Red......

and the OP keeeeeeeeeps going. Wow.

Its so fucking weird isn’t it

I know! And she fears for her sons, all the misandry.

Ive a son too and I dont worry about misandry at all.

To me MD has a very distinctive "look" and would be more easily recognised than some other actresses - this most lead to more on-street bother.

@KidneyBeans

First you wrote this....The thing is no one has actually linked to an article where she's said this - it's just the OP's thread title... which reads like you're accusing the op of making it up. So I gave you the link.

Yep you're quite right. I know. I'll accept that apology on part of the op @Balgoresboy

An actress quoted as a headline in one of the UK's biggest broadsheet newspapers 20-odd years after her most successful films. I mean that's the epitome of not-famous isn't it...
Spencer Matthews, Jamie Laing and Mark Wright have all been interviewed and headlined in The Times, one of the UK's biggest broadsheet newspapers. So she's in good company there. I'll acknowledge she's as super famous as them. Lol.

Wonder why the journalist bothered interviewing her then putting that interview behind a paywall when there's clearly no public interest in her...
Pretty sure most if not all of The Times is behind a paywall. SM, JL and MW are are behind paywalls. Very super famous. You didn't even have enough interest in her to google 'minnie driver super famous'. It was the first article that came up. So clearly not a lot of interest, no.

and the OP keeeeeeeeeps going. Wow.

But at least OP has a friend who is also ignoring most of what has been said by those of us old enough to remember 🤣

Yep you're quite right. I know. I'll accept that apology on part of the op @Balgoresboy**

[quote Voicefancier]@KidneyBeans

First you wrote this....The thing is no one has actually linked to an article where she's said this - it's just the OP's thread title... which reads like you're accusing the op of making it up. So I gave you the link.

Yep you're quite right. I know. I'll accept that apology on part of the op @Balgoresboy

An actress quoted as a headline in one of the UK's biggest broadsheet newspapers 20-odd years after her most successful films. I mean that's the epitome of not-famous isn't it...
Spencer Matthews, Jamie Laing and Mark Wright have all been interviewed and headlined in The Times, one of the UK's biggest broadsheet newspapers. So she's in good company there. I'll acknowledge she's as super famous as them. Lol.

Wonder why the journalist bothered interviewing her then putting that interview behind a paywall when there's clearly no public interest in her...
Pretty sure most if not all of The Times is behind a paywall. SM, JL and MW are are behind paywalls. Very super famous. You didn't even have enough interest in her to google 'minnie driver super famous'. It was the first article that came up. So clearly not a lot of interest, no.[/quote]
What is your point?

You seem determined to defend the OP against an imagined accusation I never made in order to pick a fight. It's weird

I simply stated that OP hadn't provided a link - which she hadn't. You did. Great. Very helpful. Yet you seem determined to interpret that as some attack on the OP's honour and integrity

This thread has 7 pages of responses of MNetters, the vast majority of which point out that yes Minnie Driver is pretty famous.
You clearly want to argue about that.

Up to you how you spend your time, but I'm afraid that you'll need to find someone else who cares as passionately as you do about it, as I frankly couldn't really care less. Good luck!

@MyOtherProfile

and the OP keeeeeeeeeps going. Wow.

But at least OP has a friend who is also ignoring most of what has been said by those of us old enough to remember 🤣

Yep you're quite right. I know. I'll accept that apology on part of the op @Balgoresboy**

Glad someone else saw that.

So odd.

@KidneyBeans. For someone who couldn't care less, you sure do write a lot.
One would only need to defend the op, if someone were attacking her. Anyone attacking her for having an opinion many people share should have a look at themselves.

As for what's my point? Maybe I have been too subtle. When you say ”no one has actually linked to an article...its just the ops thread title“, the inevitable inference is you think she's making it up. You might disagree with the op, many have, but it's unfair to accuse her of that. I don't like injustice.

You then went on to make the connection that being in The Times backed up MDs claim that she was super-famous. I was just explaining that Jamie Laing has had the same Times treatment and not super famous. Of course if you're now saying she's just pretty famous, then I can agree with that.

Alicia Vikander, much more famous than Minnie Driver and whose husband is more famous than either of them, was pregnant and then the two of them have been schlepping a baby around for several months and no one even knew. Poor Minnie can't even buy toilet paper. I think Minnie needs to have a chat with Alicia about to avoid the limelight.

And @PearlyBird the op can post as long and as often as she wants to.

''This thread has 7 pages of responses of MNetters, the vast majority of which point out that yes Minnie Driver is pretty famous.''

yes ''pretty famous'', that was not disputed. But Minnie claimed she was ''super famous'', there is a difference in fairness as Driver really never was the latter.

Alicia Vikander, much more famous than Minnie Driver
Haha really? Never heard of her.

I'm sure she was happy with the money and free stuff.

Have you not seeeeeeeeen Hard Rain??!