Adam Driver responds to Chris Wallace’s question about his appearance: “I’ve accepted this is how I look”
When appearing on Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace, Adam Driver faced a difficult question about his physical appearance, with the host wondering whether the actor’s looks had made his path to stardom harder than it might have been.
“The New Yorker also called me a ‘horse face’, so I don’t — I take it with a grain of salt,” Driver noted. “I remember reading one reviewer: ‘His agent probably doesn’t know whether to put him in a movie or the Kentucky Derby’.”
“So I take it, you know, if you believe the good thing, then you have to believe the bad thing,” Driver added. “So I try to not absorb anything.” That was the point at which Wallace asked Driver whether his physical appearance had been a “hindrance” to his career.
“You don’t look like the typical movie star,” Wallace said. Driver responded, “I’ve worked consistently, which is nice, with people that I’ve always dreamed that I wanted to work with,”
The Ferrari actor continued: “So in that sense, it hasn’t — I look how I look, I can’t change that. So I guess it helped me. A hindrance in only breaking mirrors wherever I go and having a misshapen outsized body that I can’t fit through doorways, most clothes or fit into most cars. Apart from that, it’s good.”
Wallace then got out a photo of Robert Redford and asked Driver if he thought his career might have been easier if he looked like the iconic actor. Driver remained stoic in his response.
“It would just be different,” the actor said. “Who doesn’t want to look like Robert Redford? I’ve accepted this is how I look.”
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