Minnie Driver trashes ‘disastrous’ ‘Grosse Pointe Blank’ script: ‘It just wasn’t funny’

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Minnie Driver is looking back at the ’90s.The actress, 54, revealed that her 1997 action comedy movie “Grosse Pointe Blank” was “revolutionary” to her.

On Wednesday’s episode of SiriusXM’s “This Life of Mine with James Corden,” Driver confessed that the project was almost completely improvised because the original script was “disastrous.”“Grosse Pointe Blank” stars John Cusack as a hitman who returns home for his 10-year high school reunion and reconnects with the ex-girlfriend (Driver) he still has feelings for.“We were making [“Grosse Pointe Blank”] and the script isn’t really that good, and everyone knows the script isn’t really that good, but it’s this great idea,” she told Corden. “So we shot a couple of days and I remember it wasn’t really that it was disastrous, but it just wasn’t funny.”The leads then decided to make a change.“So [Cusack] went to Joe Roth, who was then head of Disney, and said, ‘Can we just improvise?

Will you just give us a week and watch the dailies and tell me if you don’t think that it’s great?’ And George Armitage, who was the director, bless his heart, was kind of forced to go along with that.”In a 2016 interview, Armitage admitted as much, calling the movie “collaborative” before adding, “We had everybody improvising.