Minnie Driver’s statuesque figure meant she was never asked to dance at school.
The 44-year-old actress revealed in a new interview she didn’t slow dance until the age of 17 because she was taller than all the boys.
Minnie opened up about her struggles with the opposite sex as she promoted her upcoming album Ask Me to Dance.
“I was so tall, nobody would literally ask me to dance,” she told the Wall Street Journal. “I didn’t slow dance until I was about 17 years old.”
But while Minnie may have struggled at school, she used her difficulties to inspire a cover of The Cure’s Close to Me, which appears on her LP.
She is mother to six-year-old son Henry and the multi-talented star revealed parenthood also serves as a huge inspiration for the album.
“Motherhood is good for writing, but it’s not good for touring and putting a record out,” Minnie said. “I’ve got like four other records ready to go.”
The album also includes covers of Neil Young’s track Tell Me Why and Elliott Smith’s Waltz #2.
Minnie also revealed she has found music incredibly therapeutic at different times in her life.
“The nature of music as a whole, it moves you at different times in your life,” she said. “As a recording artist, you have to be able to metabolise all that. I like that. You’re not reinventing the wheel, but staying completely grounded and finding yourself in it. And everybody does that with music.”
