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I added captures from FX’s exclusive first look and preview into “The Riches”.
I also added 2 photoshoots to the gallery. Previews below…
Like the characters she plays, Minnie Driver is a woman who’s hard to peg.
She was raised in Barbados, attended boarding school but was encouraged by her family and friends to become an actress.
At 37, she’s still a free spirit who loves to surf in the Southern California sun. She has turned down high-profile acting roles just so she can record a small acoustic CD in Nashville.
On her new series, the dark drama “The Riches,” she has traded her British accent for a hillbilly twang and her luscious hair for cornrows. She plays Delilah Malloy, a Deep South redneck who is also a drug addict ex-con and the mother in a family of grifters.
After her family accidentally kills a wealthy couple, she and her husband (played by British comedian Eddie Izzard, the show’s executive producer) assume the dead couple’s identity and live in their fabulous home. Each week, viewers wonder if the Malloys will be unmasked as not being the Riches.
I added photos of Minnie at the press conference for “The Riches” on March 26, 2007.
“It’s a hard thing to kind of present in a very simple, one-sentence way,” says creator and executive producer Dmitry Lipkin of FX’s wildly unconventional drama “The Riches.”
“Just the notion that there’s this guy who was in an RV with his family and within a day or two he’s a lawyer and he lives in a big house. … It’s sort of the upwardly mobile American dream magnified times a hundred,” Lipkin says.
Debuting at 10 p.m. Monday, “The Riches” is billed as the cable channel’s first “family” series. It stars British comedian Eddie Izzard as Wayne Malloy, a grifter who with his recently paroled wife, Dahlia (Academy Award-nominated Brit, Minnie Driver), and three kids go on the run after stealing money from the clan of itinerant con artists they’d been living with in Louisiana.
I wanted to get the gallery open while I work on it. I added photos of Minnie at the premiere for “The Riches” today. Much more on the way!
Liz Phair and Ryan Adams are among the guests on actress/musician Minnie Driver’s second album, “Sea Stories.”
The 12-track collection of songs penned by Driver will be released early this summer through indie label Rounder Records’ Zoe imprint. Driver is planning an extensive tour to coincide with the release.
Adams’ backing band the Cardinals, Wallflowers/Foo Fighters’ keyboardist Rami Jaffee, Alanis Morissette collaborator Zac Rae and mixer Jim Scott will also be heard on the forthcoming record.
“Sea Song” is the follow-up to Driver’s 2004 debut “My Pocket,” which has sold a modest 35,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Reuters/Billboard
What’s a nice British actress doing in a TV series like this?
Minnie Driver, whom audiences first adored as Chris O’Donnell’s love interest in the 1995 film “Circle of Friends” and who more recently had a hilarious turn as Karen’s nemesis Lorraine on NBC’s “Will & Grace,” plays gritty Louisiana gypsy Dahlia Malloy in FX’s new series “The Riches” (tonight at 10).
In the pilot, Dahlia, a recently released convict and drug addict, and her husband Wayne (Eddie Izzard) assume the lives of a wealthy couple in an elaborate sting.
“You define your career as an actor really by what you say no to, oddly,” Driver said during a recent press conference with reporters. “And I don’t say yes very often. When I read this, it was just the best part I’ve ever been offered. . . . There’s maybe four actresses who get the really (great roles) – they’re mostly called Kate. And they are the most fabulous actors, and they get these wonderful roles. And I always wanted to do stuff like that. And that just didn’t – it came my way sometimes, but not consistently.
“When I read this role of Dahlia, I knew that this was someone who could become anything, could go anywhere, and that this was like a springboard into something completely unknown and spontaneous. She’s genuinely the greatest character I’ve played.”
Driver knows it might be an adjustment for viewers to see her in this type of role.
“People do think of me in one way,” she said. “I encourage people not to pigeonhole actors. I think this was a good way of exploiting that.”
She also appreciates how challenging it is to star in a TV drama.
“Movie acting is wildly indulgent, I’ve now realized,” she said. “You spend hours and hours, days and days on a scene. It’s just insane. (On TV), you have to make your decisions, and you have to cut through all of the fat and get straight to the meat of what it is, what the scene is about. That’s very good for actors. It’s a short route to the truth. I think that’s never a bad thing. It’s made me a better actor already. I’ve never been so challenged.”
Driver had to study the unique Louisiana drawl to capture Dahlia.
“Accents come pretty easily because I think I speak a few languages and I love music,” she said. “I think it’s all part of the same thing. But, really, Dahlia to me, a huge part of her is the way that she sounds . . . I don’t like bad accents. They really take you out of what you’re watching. So I make a point of working hard to get them good.”
Source – TheEdge.BostonHerald.com
