Minnie Driver says Hollywood has changed for women since she found fame in the Nineties

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Driver added that female sexuality is no longer women in Hollywood’s “apparent power” and that roles for women now feature the “extraordinary expansiveness that comes with getting older”. open image in gallery Minnie Driver says Hollywood has changed for women since she found fame in the Nineties Driver added she had been “conditioned” into thinking the limited number of female roles on offer were the “best” because so many actors were “vying” for the same job. “And you realise now there is so much more variety of what is asked of a female actor, which is invigorating and amazing.” It comes after Driver recently admitted it would have been the biggest mistake” of her life to marry the Marvel actor Josh Brolin. open image in gallery Minnie Driver and Matt Damon at the ‘Good Will Hunting’ premiere in 1997 The actor revealed in her 2022 memoir Managing Expectations that she discovered at the age of 12 that her parents had never married as her father was already married to a different woman, and had a second family.