But Driver is far from the only actor with an aversion to seeing themselves on screen.
Meryl Streep
Streep, the inventor of acting, said she only watches her movies once.
On revisiting her projects, theLittle Womenstar said “I don’t do that.
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I just look ahead.”
Wise words for life.
‘‘I love acting because I love doing it.
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You do it so that other people can watch it if they want to watch it."
“Maybe 20 years from now,“Andrewssaid aboutgetting around to see it.
Even without watching the whole series,Foxsaid he’s a fan.
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“I loved the story.
I got it all from the script,” the actorsaid during an Emmys panel.
“I just really am not comfortable watching myself.”
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“Its the same thing as not reading press or reviews.
You cant do both.
You cant get good stuff and not get the bad as well.”
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As such, she hasn’t seen any of her own movies.
If she ever does, her Oscar-winning role inStill Alicemay be a good place to start.
“Who wants to watch themselves for that long?”
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“They gave me the boxed set.
And Im going to do all sorts of things now, cause Im free!
‘“said Smith, who played the beloved Dowager Countess on the show for six seasons.
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“I was a part of it.
I felt like a passenger on the whole thing.”
“I cant even watch that fing nose, that fing voice, those ridiculous eyes.
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I cant handle that.”
“I dont look at anything,“she revealed.
“I panic if there is a monitor in the room.
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I immediately go into, like, an anxiety attack.”
It was so bad that the starlet could only stomachTransformers: Revenge of the Fallenafterchugging champagne.
But ultimately, the actor wants to protect his own sanity.
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“It would just harm me,” he said of screening his own stuff.
But he did have to watch himself for theTwilightDVD commentaryand his reactions were hilariously honest.
Reese Witherspoon
The Morning Showactresssaid it was “torture” viewing her own work.
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“Why would you want to watch yourself being stupid and pretending to be somebody else?”
she said onChelsea Lately.
“I just got confused, shetold Jimmy Kimmel on his show in October.
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“There are so many of these wonderful Marvel, interconnecting movies.”
As the guru of Goop, Paltrow has better things to do.
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