ForMinnie Driver, getting into character as Queen Elizabeth I hardly felt like the royal treatment.
I absolutely did, Driver told theBoston Herald.
It was 100 degrees-plus.
Minnie Driver attends the Serpentine Gallery Summer Party 2024 on June 25, 2024 in London, England.Karwai Tang/WireImage
Our costumes were lined with neoprene, and they weighed 60 pounds.
So it was intense, it was incredibly hot.
That is part of being an actor.
I find it unbelievable that we all did that.
But we did, Driver continued.
I lost 10 pounds by the time I finished.
My corsets werent really holding me in anymore.
She noted to theHeraldthat the two never actually met in real life.
They wrote to each other, said Driver.
They had a huge correspondence through their lives.
But this is an imagined meeting of two women jostling for political power.
