Minnie Driver: There's 'big-cat' energy in Season 2 of female-centric 'Serpent Queen' 12.07.2024 12:00 United Press International (UPI.com) Minnie Driver told UPI she loved playing Britain's Elizabeth I and facing off with Samantha Morton's French Catherine de Medici in the 16th-century-set costume drama, "The Serpent Queen."