Look Who's Singing: Minnie Driver

Look Who's Singing: Minnie Driver

Never mind the critics -- Minnie Driver puts acting aside to sing: Aidin Vaziri | Minnie Driver is different from most actors who want to sing. How? She knows the last thing the world needs is another actor who wants to sing. Calling from a tour bus that is traveling across Europe, the star of such movies as "Good Will Hunting" and "Grosse Pointe Blank" doesn't hesitate when asked to name just one film colleague who has successfully made the career jump. "I can't," she says. But, she adds, "I'm fully prepared to be a pioneer." The 34-year-old British actress is taking a yearlong break from Hollywood to promote her debut album, "Everything I've Got in My Pocket," recorded in the West Hollywood garage of producer and musician Marc "Doc" Dauer with members of the Wallflowers, Pete Yorn's band and her dog Bubba. The black lab's contribution should not be underestimated. "Bubba would routinely come in, destroy the studio in his enthusiasm for being there, and then pass out behind the piano," Driver says. "So we'd record a song and when we would play it back and it would be like, 'huh-huh-huh-huh- huh.' And everyone would look at each at other and say, 'What's the f -- dog doing on there? Shut him up.'"