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In Good Will Hunting, Driver plays Skylar, a Harvard student who starts dating Will, the wicked-smart janitor played by Matt Damon. Driver’s character is still just as lonely as she was in the beginning, and I was left with a dull sadness for her - a feeling that reminded me of the only other thing I’ve seen her in … This episode radiates sadness! Even the sweet ending, where Niall buys back the Stag for her after she manages to sell it, wasn’t enough to save this. Not to mention, we’re given a heart wrenching montage of her husband’s diagnosis and sickness leading up to his death.
She never wants to be touched by her new husband, and she spends all her free time video calling her daughter. Driver’s character has clearly given up on romance. Turns out, she’s attached to the old car because she’s just “hellishly lonely” without her first husband, and driving it makes her feel closer to him. The Stag is constantly breaking down on the side of the road, and the episode sets you up to think Driver might be holding onto it just so she can have flirty run-ins with the local mechanic all the time. The episode follows Driver’s character through the very sad process of getting rid of an antique car that belonged to her deceased husband. But as I watched, I couldn’t help but wonder, why are all of Minnie Driver’s romantic roles kind of sad? Where is her sweet, purely romantically driven story? Yes, I can only speak for two things in her filmography, and one of them did come out before I was even born, but the similarities in their slightly melancholy endings are enough to make me think a conspiracy is afoot. At first, things don’t seem so bad for her character: Her new husband, Niall (Don Wycherley), is perfectly nice, and she has an almost unhealthily close relationship with her college-age daughter.
So when I saw her appear in the first episode of Modern Love’s second season, a show dedicated to romance, my immediate thought was, Perfect, a nice love story for Minnie Driver! I couldn’t have been more wrong.ĭriver plays a woman named Stephanie, who is grieving the loss of her first husband.
She seems like she has a great vibe, and I just want good things for her. But it is perhaps for that exact reason that I love her.
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Truthfully, the only movie I’ve ever her in is Good Will Hunting and I don’t know a lot about her as an actress or a person. There’s just something about Minnie Driver.
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