Minnie Driver Bashes Showbiz Parents: 'They're Desperate And Conflicted'

Minnie driver told Us Weekly on Tuesday (October 21) that she disagrees with stage parents in the entertainment industry which is far from her current role as a strong-hold parent in the new film Beyond the Lights.

"I'm not really for the whole kids in show business thing," Driver, and mother one told reporters.

"It's really difficult even when you meet lovely parents of children who are in show business," she admitted. "There is still the fact that they're not having a childhood. They are out of their element, and in the element of an adult world, which is not always appropriate. It seems to me there is always a certain level of desperation that makes a person put a child in that position."

The Good Will Hunting actress is not a stage mom to her six-year-old son Henry — whom she later revealed his father was producer Tim Lea. When asked about drawing the character profile of a stage parent she replied, "That's an interesting place to start for a character: Someone who's desperate and conflicted," she said. "And if that's overshadowing everything else, it doesn't matter how nice or kind or empathetic they may be elsewhere. The overriding thing is quite fierce."

The drama film, Beyond the Lights — set to release on November 14, 2014 — focuses on a talented young musician Noni (played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw) and her newfound success.

Driver's explains the character in the film Macy Jean, as the mother of Noni, "You can't be a villain. Villains aren't interesting unless there is the un-villainous part of them," she explained. "You really understand why she does what she does ... You really get it. It's not from a malicious point of view. She's not a sociopath, she's not evil. She just desperately did not want to go back to that poverty and she wanted something better for her kid."