From the Army to Hollywood: How Ex-Marine Adam Driver Became an A-List Actor

He Was a Little Denice the Menace

Driver was 7 when his parents divorced. In an interview with WWD, Adam described the people of the town Mishawaka in Indiana as really great, but he was candid about life there. “There’s not really anything to do,” he said. “People like to cruise in front of Taco Bell. Tradewinds is the restaurant I used to go to all the time. They would have the ‘panquake,’ which is all-you-can-eat pancakes.”

Photograph of a younger Adam Driver in his yearbook. / Photograph of Adam Driver in high school hanging around in a leather jacket.

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Since there wasn’t a lot going on, teenaged Adam and his friends had to find ways to entertain themselves, which sometimes included starting fires and making questionable snacks. “We would climb radio towers, set things on fire. We tried to set a tire on fire. That was really hard,” he described. “There’s a place behind Kroger where we would dumpster-dive for potato chips. One dumpster, there was a chip factory behind it, and they used to throw out all their old potato chips.”

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