There's a reason why Minnie Driver looked so sad at the 1998 Oscars, and she's telling it all to her fans. In October, the Movie Shmood Instagram account posted a throwback video of the actress' ex, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck winning the award for best original screenplay for the 1997 thriller/romance film Good Will Hunting.
The video shows different cuts to other cast members in the audience, including Minnie, who has a pretty obvious somber facial expression. Fans in the comments wasted no time pointing it out.
"Minnie looks so sad," one person commented.
"Yeah, I was kind of thrown by her expression," another fan chimed in.
The now 53-year-old actress hopped in the comments to respond to the curious fans. "Matt had ended our relationship a few weeks before this, and was at the Oscars with his new gf," she wrote. "I was devastated. Wish I could have celebrated more as it was an amazing moment for all of us, and for this wonderful film ! ♥️."
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She then went on to make a separate comment, taking humor in the throwback clip. "My face ❤️," she said.
"It takes a lot to be candid about your feelings in a moment like this, when you have a camera on you that you know is there but don't know WHEN it's there," a fan replied. "I have so much respect for the reply you left to another comment here."
Though she didn't name who Matt's new girlfriend was, he was pictured leaving a pre-Oscars part with Winona Ryder the night before. The two dated form 1998 to 2000.
Minnie and Matt met on set of Good Will Hunting, where they played each other's love interests. They started dating, but their relationship was over in less than a year, shortly after the film was released.
However, Minnie didn't find out that Matt was breaking up with her in a traditional way. Instead, she found out after watching his appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1998.
"Well, I'm single," the actor said then. "I was with Minnie for a while, but we're not really romantically involved anymore. We're just really good friends, and I love her dearly … I care about her a lot. We care about each other a lot. It wasn't meant to be, you know? And if it's not meant to be, then it's not meant to be."
Minnie was devastated. "It's horrendous breaking up with someone anyway, but to have it be so public and to be cast in a role that I would never play if they were paying me — this wronged woman!" she said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times in July 1998. "It's unfortunate that Matt went on Oprah</em>; it seemed like a good forum for him to announce to the world that we were no longer together, which I found fantastically inappropriate. Of course, he was busy declaring his love for me on David Letterman a month previously."
