Minnie Driver Says Marrying Ex Josh Brolin Would’ve Been a ‘Mistake’

Minnie Driver is reflecting on her previous relationships. The 54-year-old actress makes a candid confession about her early aughts engagement to Josh Brolin in a brand new interview. 

The feedback come amid a bigger dialog concerning the household dynamic she grew up with. The star says that her father, Ronnie, was married to a different lady throughout his 16-year relationship along with her mom and that he had two households. 

“If I take a look at my historical past, what it did was make me need to be married a lot after which select males who had been so not the suitable males to be married to,” she tells the U.Ok.’s The Times. “So I’d keep it up longing to be married and to have that conservative model [of a relationship], discover males who had little interest in that, after which if one did, run a mile.”

Driver provides, “The one time I used to be engaged [to fellow actor Josh Brolin in 2001] it will have been, I believe, the largest mistake of my life.” 

At the moment, the London-born actress is single, however in a committed relationship with American writer-director Addison O’Dea. 

“I am with somebody who doesn’t need to get married however who’s essentially the most devoted, loving, extraordinary… Every little thing I may have needed in my childhood thought of a husband, he really is,” she gushed to The Occasions.

For his half, Brolin is now married to Kathryn Boyd. The couple shares two daughters, 5-year-old Westlyn and 3-year-old Chapel. He additionally shares two grownup youngsters, 36-year-old Trevor and 29-year-old Eden, along with his ex-wife, Alice Adair. Moreover, Brolin was married to actress Diane Lane from 2004 to 2013. 

Driver is mother to 15-year-old son Henry, whom she welcomed in 2008 amid a shortlived romance with TV author Timothy J. Lea.

“It is why I finished making films, actually consciously,” she now tells The Occasions. “I referred to as my agent and went, ‘OK, I’m having a child and I would love you to go and search for a present that’s referred to as Shoots in Los Angeles and can pay me a daily wage.”

She continues, “I couldn’t be travelling. I couldn’t be taking a tiny child to Romania — and I didn’t need to. As a single mum, I didn’t need him to have that uncertainty. I needed him to have faculty and soccer and mates and tea and his personal mattress and our home.” 

Throughout that point, Driver gave memorable performances within the sitcoms A few Boy and Will & Grace. 

“It was so beautiful as a result of with what you consciously give your youngsters, you possibly can maybe on the similar time be giving your self the factor that you simply didn’t have,” she says of the schedule that allowed her to spend extra time at residence. 

Driver additionally famously dated Matt Damon after assembly on the set of Good Will Looking in 1997.

In 2022 — whereas selling her memoir, Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essay — Driver spoke to ET about her temporary and “candy” romance with Damon, and the way the general public fallout from their 1998 break up added to the ache.

“I do not care who you might be, that’s agony and it is like a wierd, surreal dream,” Driver mentioned of the tabloid fodder that surrounded their breakup. “However I do know he did not put that image there. It is so tough, as a result of it is not deliberate, he could not have helped how well-known he turned and the way his life was being picked over, in the identical means that mine was.”

Driver is at the moment selling her position in season 2 of Starz’s The Serpent Queen, enjoying Queen Elizabeth I. 

Speaking with ET in April, Driver mentioned she underwent greater than three hours of hair and make-up every day to turn into the “Virgin Queen.”

“It was a really lengthy course of reworking into Queen Elizabeth I nevertheless it was really, really unimaginable,” she mentioned. “It’s the most superb present, The Serpent Queen, this summer season — I am unable to wait.”

She added, “[It was] about three-and-a-half hours, and that was with wardrobe as effectively, like, it was intense. … Unimaginable hair and make-up, unimaginable costumes, that is what I signed up for, you understand? That is the place all of it started, you need to play dress-up as a child.”

She additionally instructed ET that she regards her character as probably the most memorable of her profession. 

“She’s fierce, imagine me, I’ve not been capable of let go of Queen Elizabeth I. I shall be dedicated to her ceaselessly,” Driver mentioned. “I imply, as a Brit, it is astonishing, it is an honor and it is actually thrilling.”

Season 2 of The Serpent Queen premieres on July 12 on Starz. 

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