‘I look how I look’: Driver answers bold question
Can somebody, anybody, please ask Adam Driver a serious question?
Less than a month after Driver was asked a derisive question by a fan about his upcoming film “Ferrari,” the actor was asked another backhanded question last week — but this time by a well-known reporter.
In an interview with CNN journalist Chis Wallace that aired Friday, Driver was asked whether he accepts being compared to great actors such as Al Pacino and Jack Nicholson.
“That’s a nice compari- son,” the “Marriage Story” star said to the host of “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?”
“The New Yorker has also called me a horse face, so I take (the comparisons) with a grain of salt,” Driver con- tinued. “I remember read- ing one reviewer (who said), ‘His agent probably doesn’t know whether to put him in a movie or the Kentucky Derby.’ So if you believe the good thing, you have to believe the bad thing. I try to not absorb anything.”
Then, Wallace flatly asked the 40-year-old if his appearance has been a “help or a hindrance” to his career. After looking a bit thrown by the inquiry, the actor delivered a thought- ful response.
“Well, I’ve worked consistently, which is nice, with people I’ve always dreamed that I wanted to work with,” he said. “I look how I look. I can’t change that. So I guess it helped me. Yeah, I don’t know.”
Driver then provided a cheekier answer: “A hin- drance in only breaking mirrors wherever I go and having a misshapen, outsize body that I can’t fit through doorways or most clothes or fit into most cars. So apart from that, it’s been good.”
Wallace tried rephras- satory response from the ing the question by ask- controversial leader about ing if Driver ever thought the deaths of U.S. political his career would be eas- opponents. ier if he looked like Robert Driver is no stranger to Redford. Driver responded being asked absurd quesin the way anyone might: tions. Luckily for Wallace, “Who doesn’t want to look the Oscar nominee was like Robert Redford?” more measured on CNN
The “Star Wars” and than he has been when “Girls” actor concluded prompted by similar queshis thoughts on the mat- tions. ter by simply adding, “I After a screening of the just kind of accepted this Enzo Ferrari 2023 biopic is how I look.” at Poland’s Camerimage
Over the years, Wallace Film Festival in Novemhas gained a reputation for ber, Driver was asked by being one of the toughest an audience member what interrogators on television he thought about the film’s — and he is well aware of it. crash sequences.
“I take the line that some“What do you think about body said from Vince Lom- the crash scenes?” the bardi, ‘He doesn’t discrim- attendee asked the “House inate — he treats us all like of Gucci” actor, as seen in dogs,’” he told The Times in a video captured on social 2016. “That’s my view on all media. “They looked pretty politicians.” In a 2018 inter- harsh, drastic, and I must view, Wallace asked Russian say, cheesy, for me. What President Vladimir Putin do you think?” why so many of his political Driver curtly answered, opponents ended up dead, “F— you. I don’t know. Next prompting an equally accu- question.”