Minnie Driver: Marrying Josh Brolin would have been a “big mistake”

Minnie Driver It has nothing to hide. The unstoppable Will Hunting The 54-year-old star opened up in a lengthy interview with The times published on Saturday, July 6 about her previous relationship with the actor Josh Brolin.

Driver and the Dune The 56-year-old star got engaged in 2001 and split that same year after a five-month courtship.

“The one time I got engaged, I think it would have been the biggest mistake of my life,” Driver told the British publication.

He She delighted The actress had also revealed in The times Profile about what their parents were like, Gaynor and CharlesShe had never married because of her father’s infidelities. Their relationship had influenced the way she views her own romantic relationships.

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“If I look at my history, what it did was make me want to get married so badly and then choose men who weren’t the right ones to marry,” she added.

“So I would still long to get married and have that conservative version (of a relationship), I would find men who weren’t interested in that and if any of them were, I would run away,” she said.

The host continued: “But now I’m with someone (the American writer and director) Addison O’Dea) who doesn’t want to get married but is the most devoted, loving, extraordinary… Everything I could have ever wanted in my childhood idea of ​​a husband, he truly is.”

O’Dea and Driver have been dating since 2019 after meeting at a party in Los Angeles.

He Queen Snake The star even opened up about taking a step back from filmmaking when her son… Enrique was born. She welcomed him with the television producer and former Timothy J. Lea in 2008.

Minnie Driver and Josh Brolin

Minnie Driver and Josh Brolin Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc

Feeling like she had grown up “unaccustomed to certainty,” she wanted to introduce 15-year-old Henry to a different view of life.

“That’s why I stopped doing movies, very consciously,” she said. “I called my agent and said, ‘Well, I’m going to have a baby and I’d really like you to go find a show … in Los Angeles and pay me a regular salary.’”

Driver added that because she was a first-time mother, she didn’t want to travel as much for filming and looked for more work closer to home.

“As a single mother, I didn’t want him to have that uncertainty. I wanted him to have school, football, friends, tea, his own bed and our house,” she said.

His notable television roles include: Will and grace, About a boy and Speechless.

“And it was so nice because with what you consciously give to your children, perhaps you can at the same time be giving yourself what you didn’t have.”