Minnie Driver gets to grips with co-star Colin Firth

She says she can't get a date - but with men like Colin Firth and David Ginola around, Minnie Driver was able to make the best of it at the premiere of her latest film.


The British actress was seen with both at the party for Hope Springs last night - and she also managed to get Friends star Matthew Perry to accompany her up the red carpet, to the delight of hundreds of screaming fans.

Driver, 33, also signed autographs for cheering fans outside the premiere last night at Asia de Cuba, at St Martin's Lane Hotel. She played down her recent admission that she felt a "pariah" because men in London never asked her out. "I don't even have time for a date - my dad had to come here tonight just so he could see me," she said.

Firth stars as Driver's fiancé in Hope Springs - but in real life he is, of course, taken: he arrived at the party with pregnant wife Livia Guiggioli.

Meanwhile Perry is currently rehearsing with Driver for what will be his stage debut, in the David Mamet play Sexual Perversity, which opens in Chicago next week. He said: "The play is going great and Minnie is terrific - very sweet and funny."

And former footballer Ginola - who is to start a RADA acting course in London - was one of a number of star guests at the party. Others included American actress Mena Suvari, and musician and actor Roland Gift.

Driver, whose love life has included romances with actors Matt Damon, John Cusack, Josh Brolin and Harrison Ford, said: "I loved the premiere and people seemed to enjoy the film, but I'm back in rehearsals in the morning so I have to get home. It is hard work, but I'm loving it and Matthew Perry is fantastic."

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