CNN’s Chris Wallace Slammed For Questioning Adam Driver’s Looks

In a brand new interview with the 40-year-old actor on Wallace’s Max collection, Who’s Speaking to Chris Wallace, the veteran journalist requested Driver about how he would not “appear like the standard film star” and the impression that is had on his profession.

After citing the comparability between Driver and a number of the huge identify actors which have come earlier than him like Al Pacino and Jack Nicholson, Wallace requested the Home of Gucci star whether or not or not he accepts being likened to the cinema legends.

“That is very good. These are the actors that made me wish to be an actor, in order that’s a pleasant comparability,” Driver mentioned earlier than rejecting the comparability. “The New Yorker has additionally known as me a horse-face.”

He continued, “I bear in mind studying one reviewer [who said], ‘His agent in all probability would not know whether or not to place him in a film or the Kentucky Derby.’ So for those who imagine the great factor, it’s important to imagine the unhealthy factor. So I attempt to not take up something.”

Additional discussing his appears to be like, Driver famous that he is labored fairly persistently, including that his non-traditional film star look has seemingly had no adverse impression on his profession.

It is then Wallace hones in on Driver’s atypical appears to be like, asking the actor whether or not or not they have been a hindrance or a assist to him onscreen.

“I’ve labored persistently, which is good, with folks I at all times dreamed that I needed to work with,” Driver mentioned. “I look how I look. I am unable to change that. So, I suppose it helped me.”

The one time his appears to be like have been a hindrance for him, Driver mentioned in fairly a sarcastic tone, has been when he passes a mirror, breaking it alongside the way in which, or when he tries to get his six-foot-two body into small automobiles and doorways.

“A hindrance in solely breaking mirrors wherever I’m going, and having a misshapen outsized physique that I am unable to match by means of doorways or most garments or match into most automobiles, so aside from that, it is good,” the Home of Gucci star quipped.

Persevering with to press the problem, Wallace requested if Driver puzzled if he’d have a better time in Hollywood if he had the basic film star beauty of somebody like Robert Redford.

“If I appeared like Robert Redford it could be simpler,” Driver contemplated earlier than answering. “Yeah, however it could simply be totally different. I’d be giving one thing off…”

“Perhaps I am attempting to be diplomatic. And I suppose if I used to be alone in a room, I am like, ‘Who Does not wish to appear like Robert Redford?'”

Driver added, “I simply type of accepted that is how I look.”

The Star Wars: The Drive Awakens actor’s followers shortly got here to his protection after the interview went dwell final week, with a clip from Driver’s back-and-forth with Wallace catching fireplace and finally going viral over the weekend.

Some on social media called Wallace a “scumbag,” whereas others labeled the journalist, who left Fox Information after 18 years in Dec. 2021, “dumb” for his line of questioning.

One other fan, in the meantime, wrote, “I really feel like I hear much more about folks considering he is sizzling and enticing than the alternative.”

TooFab has reached out to Wallace’s reps for remark.