Weeks after giving a candid, headline-making response to criticism of Ferrari’s crash scenes, actor Adam Driver fielded questions from Chris Wallace on his CNN present about the truth that, in line with the journalist, “you don’t look like the typical movie star.”
He began this line of questioning by noting comparisons that had been made between Driver and actors together with Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino. “Those are the actors that made me want to be an actor, you know, so that’s a nice comparison,” Driver replied. But when requested whether or not he “accepts” the correlation, Driver replied, “Well, no,” earlier than noting {that a} publication as soon as “called me a ‘horse face’ so I don’t—I take it with a grain of salt. I remember reading one reviewer [who wrote] ‘his agent probably doesn’t know whether to put him in a movie or the Kentucky Derby.’ So I take it, you know, if you believe the good thing, then you have to believe the bad thing. So I try to not absorb anything.”
Then got here Wallace’s statement that Driver doesn’t current like most film stars, asking if that had been a “help or a hindrance” to Driver’s profession. “I’ve worked consistently, which is nice, with people that I’ve wanted to always, dreamed that I wanted to work with,” Driver replied. “So in that sense, it hasn’t—I look how I look, I can’t change that. So I guess it helped me.”
Questions like these date again to not less than 2015, when Driver was requested by The Guardian: “You must have been told before that you have an amazing unusual face? It’s a compliment—not being the standard Hollywood McHunk has worked in your favor.” Driver gamely responded then by saying, “I have been told before that I have an unusual face. But my face is my face. I had a whole life before acting, over the years. Lots of things have been said about my face.”
Eight years later, Driver jokingly informed Wallace that his seems are “a hindrance in only breaking mirrors wherever I go and and having a misshapen outsized body that I can’t fit through doorways, or most clothes or fit into most cars, adding, “Apart from that, it’s good.”
Wallace couldn’t resist one final beat on this subject. He offered a photograph of Robert Redford earlier than Driver and requested if his occupation can be simpler if he seemed just like the Oscar winner. “It would just be different,” Driver stated. “Who doesn’t want to look like Robert Redford? I’ve accepted this is how I look.”