Minnie Driver Requested To Faux An Orgasm In An Audition

Minnie Driver from traditional movies like Good Will Searching, Grosse Pointe Clean, and GoldenEye.

Minnie has a brand new memoir out, Managing Expectations, and in it (through The Occasions) she remembers an early level in her profession when a casting director made an inappropriate request on set.

Minnie remembers auditioning for a TV business for sweets, when a casting director requested her if she’d seen the notorious scene in When Harry Met Sally, the place Meg Ryan fakes an orgasm at a diner.

“ the scene the place she fakes an orgasm?” he requested, “Eat a bit of chocolate and try this…Until you fancy having an actual one.”

“I thought of all the women ready outdoors,” she recalled. “All of us vying for a possibility that was truly humiliation dressed up in a pick-me! outfit. I needed to run on the market and warn them.”

“I needed to inform them we have been higher than this, higher than being lunchtime leisure for a bunch of pervy execs, their perviness sanctioned by this being thought-about ‘work.’”

“However after all I didn’t, as a result of the fireplace was lit and it required gasoline, and any gasoline, nonetheless troubling, will burn simply the identical.”

Minnie additionally famous that she was requested to faux an orgasm a number of instances by the director, and that the chocolate tasted “revolting” — which led her to place her foot down. “I don’t suppose I can do it once more…as a result of I’ll throw up,” she stated.

“They thought I used to be speaking concerning the chocolate, nevertheless it was actually my disgrace at having gone together with the entire grotesquery. And the fucking chocolate.”

Based on Minnie, the casting director — who she dubbed “Scorsleazy,” a pun on director Martin Scorsese’s final identify — replied, “‘Nicely, all the opposite ladies have apparently very a lot loved this.’”

“I gathered the nice coat I’d worn off the ground, smiled mightily and stated, ‘They have been faking it.’ As exits go, it wasn’t unhealthy.”