Minnie Driver says Hard Rain producers denied her a wetsuit so viewers could ‘see my nipples’

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Minnie Driver says she was not allowed a moist swimsuit on the 1998 movie Hard Rain as a result of producers “wanted to see my nipples”.

Driver performs a native lady named Karen within the Mikael Salomon thriller about a financial institution heist that takes place throughout torrential storms.

The actor spoke in regards to the filming situations throughout an look on Jameela Jamil‘s SiriusXM podcast I Weigh with Jameela Jamil launched Tuesday (2 April).

“There were huge rain machines. We shot crazy hours. It was tough, like, it was a tough movie, but everybody else could wear a wetsuit underneath their costume,” Driver stated.

“And I was told by the producers that I couldn’t because they wanted to see my nipples, and that there was no point in having the wet T-shirt if you couldn’t have what was underneath it.”

The Good Will Hunting star stated she complained to her agent in regards to the scenario; nonetheless, after doing so, “people wouldn’t speak to me on the set”.

“There was this kind of – I was so punished for it,” Driver stated on the podcast, additional alleging that her complaints had been leaked to the press “as if there were nothing to complain about and that I were just complaining”.

“So it’s this sort of – not even existential, this gaslighting, media gaslighting that’s supported by the environment that you are in. And then you have to stay in that environment,” she stated.

“You know, we shot that movie for seven months. So, eventually, you do turn on yourself. You do go, ‘It was my fault for saying anything, you stupid big mouth. You should have shut up.’ And that goes in and then alters the way in which you kind of see yourself and your natural inclination to put your hand up and go ‘This isn’t right.’”

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The Independent has contacted the movie’s producers Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon, and Gary Levinsohn for remark.

The movie, a field workplace flop which made simply $19m within the US, additionally starred Morgan Freeman and Christian Slater.

In his contemporaneous one-star evaluation, outstanding critic Roger Ebert wrote: “Hard Rain is one of those movies that never convince you its stories are really happening. From beginning to end, I was acutely aware of actors being paid to stand in cold water. Suspension of my disbelief in this case would have required psychotropic medications.”