Minnie Driver discovered that Matt Damon had thrown her when she saw him on "Oprah"
They met in 1997 Good Will Hunting.
Gather on the set of a film, fall for each other, and continue to be nominated for the Oscars sounds like the beginning of a fairly incredible love story. But the romance between the 90s couple Matt Damon And Minnie Driver I did not get much further than that. The two actors began to go out together in real life after having played love interests Good will , with which Damon also co-written with Ben Affleck . The film was released in December 1997, and shortly after, the actors' relationship was over - only Damon knew it before the driver.
THE Circle of friends Star later declared that she had only realized that she and Damon had finished because she heard her say that he was single during an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show . Read the rest to find out more about their brief and "fuel" relationship.
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Driver said that she had fallen in love with him during the shooting.
In a 2012 play for The telegraph ,, Driver has described his experience manufacturing Good will , including a scene in which their characters hang out in front of a coffee.
"In real life, when we filmed this scene, I was completely in love with Matt," she said. "I was blown away by his commitment to me as an actor, he was cute and intelligent and quite a really charming package. I was young and I fell in love with him - it's a professional risk. ""
As for Damon, he said in an episode of The late show When the film was released ( via the showbiz cheat sheet ) This driver "has roughly shaken [his] world".
Damon told Oprah that he was single.
Damon appeared on Oprah in 1998 and approached his personal life in addition to the success of Good will . AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"Well, I'm single. I was with Minnie for a while, but we are no longer really romantically involved," he said, as reported by the Showbiz cheat sheet. "We are just very good friends, and I love her very much ... I care about her. It is not supposed to be, so it is not supposed to be. "
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The driver called Damon's comments "incredibly inappropriate".
It has been reported that not only Damon revealed their separation Oprah , but also that this is how Driver herself discovered that they were finished. At the time, She called Damon's interview "Unhappy" and "incredibly inappropriate".
"It is horrible to break with someone anyway, but for it to be so public and to be played in a role that I would never play if they paid me - this woman in lesion!" She said to Los Angeles Times in July 1998. "It is regrettable that Matt continues Oprah ; It seemed to be a good forum to tell him that we were no longer together, which I found incredibly inappropriate. Of course, he was busy declaring his love for me David Letterman A month before. ""
It was warned that the relationship would not last.
Driver wrote a book on his life, Expectation of expectations: a memoir in tests , which was published in 2022. She wrote on her Damon, including her parents thought that the couple was likely convicted from the start .
“My family loved Matt - it wasn't that. It was that they could see that this young man flowered very quickly and me too, and when you are young, it is quite difficult to keep your head straight and to maintain a feeling of deportation founded, "she said Entertainment tonight . "They were like:" It could well end for reasons to do with all these things that meet in a perfect storm. "" She added that the relationship had a "end fuel".
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She criticized the comments of the interview he made years later.
Damon and Driver had a lot of time to go from the breakup that occurred 25 years ago, but they made heads publicly still decades later.
In December 2017, Damon addressed The #MeToo movement and the allegations that had been made against several men in Hollywood in an interview with ABC News. THE Martian Star was criticized for his comments, which included the fact that harassment and assault should be consulted on a "spectrum" and a supporting actor Louis C.K. for admitting his reprehensible acts. Damon also said: "We live in this culture of indignation and injury, which we will have to correct enough to go:" Wait a minute. None of us came perfect here. ""
The driver was one of the many people who spoke against his catch, tweet , "My God, it is so interesting to see how men with all these opinions on the differentiation of women between sexual misconduct, assaults and rape are completely deaf and, therefore, systematically making the problem (* deeply without surprise)."
A little after, Driver told The Guardian "I felt that I desperately needed to say something. I realized that most men, good men, men I love, there is a cut in their ability to understand. They can't everything Just not understand what abuses look like on a daily level. I honestly think that until we arrived on the same wavelength, you cannot speak to a woman of their abuse. A man cannot do that. "
Damon apologized later For what he said in the interview.
They met more recently.
During an interview in 2021 on the podcast Keep it! , Driver said that she had met Damon the previous summer and spoke to her for the first time since their breakup.
"It was last summer and it was actually very pleasant to see him, and his children, and his wife and all that seemed enough average age in fact, which was reassuring," she said (said ( via Today ). "I have the impression that a large part of the madness of young people continued with our initial relationship, as if it was incredible and tabloid. So it was pleasant to have just a kind of conversation of age Middle on weather and stuff. "
