Minnie Driver says it's 'annoying' she's still defined by Matt Damon romance 25 years later

Minnie Driver has said it’s “annoying” that she is still defined by a relationship she had with Matt Damon 25 years ago.

The actor, 53, dated Damon after they met on 1997’s Good Will Hunting but they had split by 1998.

She referred to their brief romance on Good Morning Britain as she discussed the treatment of women in Hollywood.

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“I am still being defined by a 25-year-old relationship with Matt,” she said.

“Matt’s amazing and has had this amazing career and I’ve had this amazing career.

“It was this lovely fragment of sort of sweetness when we were really young and everything was beginning.”

She went on: “We do tend to establish women in the context of who they have been in relationships with.

“I find that a bit annoying and reductive.”

Driver also said she never felt she fit into “the box”.

“I don’t really think I fit into it in Hollywood or anywhere,” she explained.

“In a way getting older is about realising that that’s so fine and actually so great and idiosyncratic.”

Presenter Ranvir Singh raised the idea of being a “difficult woman” in Hollywood.

Driver, who found fame in 1995’s Circle Of Friends, said it was “nonsensical”.

She said: “It’s created I think to suppress women and to keep them… particularly in the 90s you know, you were oversexualised and underappreciated and not expected to speak out and if you did speak out about anything you were branded shrill, feisty, difficult, outspoken.

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“I love and also loathe those words when they are used in the context of women.”

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