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| | Winona Ryder: A studio head once said I looked 'too Jewish' to play a blue-blood | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Winona Ryder has a newish interview in the Sunday Times and some of the stories she told are getting a lot of attention. What?s weird about the one story the thing about Mel Gibson being a rampant and casual anti-Semite is that I?m pretty positive she?s told the story several times in interviews over the years. I even looked it up to see if I had ever covered her talking about Gibson, and here we go in her 2010 GQ interview, she told the same story about Mel Gibson. Maybe this is her ?once a decade? reminder that Mel Gibson has always been a homophobic, racist, anti-Semitic pig. If she really plans that out for ?once every ten years, I?m going to remind people that Mel Gibson sucks,? then good for her. I love her even more. She also has a story about Francis Ford Coppola being an ahole, which I think is new! Some highlights:
On being Jewish in Hollywood and experiencing Antisemitism: ?I have? in interesting ways. There are times when people have said, ?Wait, you?re Jewish? But you?re so pretty!? There was a movie that I was up for a long time ago, it was a period piece, and the studio head, who was Jewish, said I looked ?too Jewish? to be in a blue-blooded family.?
The Mel Gibson story: ?We were at a crowded party with one of my good friends, and Mel Gibson was smoking a cigar, and we?re all talking and he said to my friend, who?s gay, ?Oh wait, am I gonna get AIDS?? And then something came up about Jews, and he said, ?You?re not an oven dodger, are you?? She added that Gibson ?tried? to apologise at a later date.
She?s not religious but she identifies: ?Not religious, but I do identify. It?s a hard thing for me to talk about because I had family who died in the camps, so I?ve always been fascinated with that time.?
Filming Dracula: Ryder said that, during filming of a scene involving Gary Oldman?s Dracula transforming into a pile of rats, Coppola stood off camera repeatedly shouting ?You whore!? in order to get her to believably cry. Coppola also attempted to get the film?s male cast to join in, too. ?To put it in context I?m supposed to be crying. Literally, Richard E Grant, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu ? Francis was trying to get all of them to yell things that would make me cry. But Keanu wouldn?t, Anthony wouldn?t ? It just didn?t work. I was, like, really? It kind of did the opposite.? Ryder said that she and Coppola are ?good now?, but that the experience sparked a long-time friendship with Reeves.
Working with Keanu on 2018?s Destination Wedding. ?It got the worst reviews. That movie, for some reason, every reviewer was like, ?This is the worst movie in the world,? and it was really rough.?
[From The Independent & NME]
I really liked Destination Wedding! It was different than what I thought it would be and it was more dialogue-heavy and darker than I was expecting, but it wasn?t bad at all. As for her stories? Mel Gibson remains trash and I hope she continues to tell that awful story as often as she wants. Francis Ford Coppola and the men of Dracula? lord, what an awful story. At least Keanu was always lovely.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Winona Ryder in Ryan Roche at the SAGs: old-school or just boring? | | Added 7 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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One of the best parts of this awards season is the return of Winona Ryder to her rightful place on the red carpet. The problem is that old-school ?90s Winona is no longer with us. I?m a ?90s Girl so I remember when Winona was The One. We couldn?t wait to see what she would wear to the Globes and the Oscars back then. Nowadays? her style is pretty boring. To last night?s SAGs, Winona wore this custom Ryan Roche dress in black. It?s got a pretty neckline and shape but it?s pretty boring overall. Thankfully, when Stranger Things won Best Ensemble in a Drama, Winona got on stage and her reaction shots were the best.
The many faces of Winona Ryder. ?? #SAGAwards pic.twitter.com/oqegdrXWlX
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) January 30, 2017
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| | Winona Ryder in satin Viktor & Rolf at the Golden Globes: '90s fab or '90s fug' | | Added 7 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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For a ?90s Girl like me, I easily recall when Winona Ryder was a HUGE deal on the red carpet. Everyone loved her and we couldn?t wait to see what she would be wearing. Literally decades have passed and part of me was still excited to see her? until I actually saw this Viktor & Rolf dress. Apparently, they customized for her, to which I say? REALLY??? This is a standard-issue prom/pageant dress from the ?90s. I love Winona but? no. Her date was Scott Mackinlay Hahn. Who is he? He?s a fashion designer and they?ve apparently been dating for more than five years. PS… this dress has a giant f–king bow on the back which was hideous, but there are thankfully no photos of it.
Claire Foy in Erdem. People love her and they love The Crown (which won over Game of Thrones and Westworld last night). Personally, I feel like The Crown is going to become another Downton Abbey situation, where Americans fall over themselves because of the posh soap opera of everything. Meh. As for the dress? it was disappointing. I like that she wore a British label though.
Pharrell Williams wore a years-old Chanel ensemble. He described it as from Chanel?s ?Bombay Collection,? to which I say? Chanel made British empire cosplay?? Pharrell looks like The Last Viceroy.
Riley Keough in Chanel. Considering the elitism of the Chanel label, I find it odd that Riley was the most high-profile woman wearing the label. I also find it odd that this is the dress she chose.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.
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| | Winona Ryder: 'I love getting older, I?ve been waiting so long for that to happen!' | | Added 7 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Winona Ryder covers the latest issue of The Edit. I love the cover, but I hate the photo of Winona in bed (at the end of the post). That bed photo brings up a question I?ve had about Winona for years: she got some work done at some point, correct? I feel like we already established that she got an eye job or some kind of eye work several years back. I bring this up because Winona claims that she ?loves? getting older, and she pretty much says that she hasn?t had anything done. Although we could probably parse that quote pretty hard. You can read the full Edit piece here, and here are some highlights:
On fame: ?Socially, I had a tough time at school; I was shy and different looking. It got so bad that in 7th grade I was homeschooled. When Beetlejuice came out and was a big hit, I thought, this will help me. [But then] people called me ?witch?. But you know that thing, when you make one great friend, that can save you? Someone saved me.?
Jodie Foster?s advice: ?In my first apartment in LA, Jodie Foster lived upstairs, and we?d do laundry together. She?s so smart. She told me to resist doing things that other people say you should do. Don?t be ?strategic?! I was up for this movie, Mobsters, and everyone said I should do it. But Jodie said, ?You have to feel very connected to something before you do it.? So I turned it down. And it was a flop!?
Getting a real life: ?It?s interesting: you can go through good times and bad times, but if you?re still working, people see you in a certain way. I was working a lot [in the ?90s] and I needed to slow down. It?s so important to have a life outside the industry, to not look to it to validate you as a human being. A lot of people had the perception that I just disappeared in the 2000s. And I did, but only from that world. I appeared elsewhere, I promise you. I was transformed into doing stuff I really wanted to do ? it was a great awakening. It just wasn?t in the public eye.?
She loves getting older: ?I love getting older. I think it has to do with always being the kid on set. It?s interesting because, these days, [cosmetic surgery] is treated almost like hygiene. I?ve had people say to me, ?Oh, you should, you know…? and they point to my forehead. ?Get that seen to!? But I?m like, ?No! I?ve been waiting so long for that to happen!??
She doesn?t see casting-ageism as a bad thing: ?I know actresses have a tough time because of their age ? they?re just not getting hired. I know it exists. You?re the girlfriend, then you?re the mother. But I don?t see it as a bad thing ? it can be just as interesting, if not more so, than the leading-lady, ingnue phase.?
Serial monogamy: ?I?m a serial monogamist. I was single for a while and dating and…I just didn?t know how to do it! I?ve always been like that: when I was 15, there was a guy I liked, and we made out, and I thought that meant he was my boyfriend. My mom had to explain it to me. But marriage? I don?t know. I?d rather never have been married than been divorced a few times. Not that there?s anything wrong with divorce, but I don?t think I could do it if that was a possibility. When your parents are madly in love for 45 years, your standards are really high. But I?ve been happily with someone for quite a while now.?
On social media: ?I?m not on [social media]. I?m very private so I can?t imagine what I?d want to share with the world. I can?t even take selfies; I literally just learned about the button that makes the screen flip. I think [social media] is a bit dangerous, in terms of self-obsession. It?s so important to look outward.?
[From The Edit]
?But I don?t see it as a bad thing ? it can be just as interesting, if not more so, than the leading-lady, ingnue phase?? I understand that she?s trying to make lemonade out of ageism lemons, but I do think she could have explained her point
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| | Winona Ryder on aging: 'How do you win' If I don't look ageless, I look haggard' | | Added 8 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Above is a photo of Winona Ryder, 43, and her hot longterm boyfriend, Scott Mackinlay Hahn, a fashion designer who founded the socially conscious clothing line Loomstate. These two have been together for over three years and they’re just a ridiculously good looking couple. I didn’t realize that Winona had a longterm boyfriend but she does and they look sympatico. Maybe it’s the all black clothing coupled with their expressive eyes. They’re like soul eaters.
Ryder has a new interview with Entertainment Tonight in which she’s promoting Experimenter, with Peter Sarsgaard, an account of the Stanley Milgram experiments in the early 1960s*. The film is out October 16th and here’s a link to the trailer. It looks really good.
To ET, Ryder talked about aging and how it’s a relief to play a character her own age. She turns 44 at the end of the month, can you believe it? She implicitly denied having Botox or fillers by saying that she’s afraid of needles but added that she doesn’t judge women who do that. Is she doing lasers or just staying inside whenever the sun is out? Maybe she’s used heavy sunscreen since she was a teenager. That has to be it. Despite how young she continues to look, Ryder isn’t immune to criticism. She said that she can’t win, basically. Some of the things she said about aging struck me as poetic.
On people saying she looks the same as she did 25 years ago
?It?s such a double-edged sword, because, it?s like, I want to be allowed to grow up,? Ryder tells ET, curled up in a black tracksuit — she thought we were going to chat by phone — in a suite at the Crosby Hotel in New York City. She blames the current state of nostalgia on social media, which has resurfaced younger pictures of her. ?How do you win? If I don?t look ageless, I look haggard. Or if I look normal or whatever, then they?ll talk about how bad I look…”
Ryder, however, has no interest in plastic surgery. ?I don?t judge, but I?m just terrified of needles,? she says.
On why she didn’t get roles playing women her age
?I feel like when you?ve had a lot of success in your teen years and 20s — and I?m not trying to speak for anyone else — but something kind of happens where you are in your 30s and people associate you so much with those other roles,? Ryder says. ?So, they don?t really think of you as old enough, even though you are old enough.?
?I feel like I kind of had this thing in my 30s where it was just hard because people were really holding onto this ingnue thing.”
?I wasn?t that anymore and I looked young, you know, and I?m not complaining about that, but I also agreed,? Ryder adds, as she sits wide-eyed on the room?s loveseat. ?I wouldn?t buy myself as a district attorney when I was 35 either, even though I could have been one, you know, age-wise.?
On her role in Black Swan
?I?m so grateful to Darren [Aronofsky] for giving me that role,? Ryder says. ?It wasn?t something I pursued, because I didn?t think in a million years I could be a ballerina or anything. But, you know, I really owe him a great debt there.?
On playing a character her age in the HBO miniseries Show Me A Hero
?The way that [director Paul Haggis] shot me was super unflattering but great… Look, we all want to look good and stuff, but I think there is something great about embracing getting older.?
On growing old gracefully
Without referencing the current discussion about ageism in Hollywood, which has led many actresses to speak about being overlooked as they get older, Ryder applauds the likes of Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Juliette Binoche for setting the example for aging gracefully. ?You look at a lot of these actresses that are winning Academy Awards, and they?re beautiful,? she says.
The actress even has a special phrase for blushing in honor of Binoche. ?Very genuinely, I?d call it Binoche-ing,? she says as she pinches the top of her own cheeks, referencing the French actress? early 1988 film, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
?Correct me if I?m wrong, but maybe there?s a new standard of beauty,? Ryder adds.
[From ET Online, headers added]
Without directly saying it, Ryder is saying the new standard of beauty is women aging naturally. She’s right that they can’t win, though. Somehow she’s still looking preternaturally young and I like that she’s not complaining about it at the same time as she’s acknowledging that it’s affected her career.
Ryder recently confirmed that Beetlejuice 2 is in the works! She clarified this week that Seth Myers had cornered her into admitting that and added that she’s not sure when it’s happening. “I don?t know any more than anybody else… I feel bad confirming, because who knows, Burton could do another movie first.” Geena Davis has said she hasn’t heard anything but would be on board too. As for why Ryder would do a Beetlejuice follow up, she said that the film and her other cult classic, Heathers, make her feel nostalgic. “They come on TV and I feel like, ?Aww.’” Those movies do that for so many of us in her generation.
Photos are from 8-11-15 (print dress) credit: Pacific Coast News and 10-6-15 (black dress) credit: PRphotos. Header photo credit: Getty
*If you took Psychology 101 you’re probably familiar with Milgram, who tested how far people would go to follow orders from authority figures. Milgram told subjects they were administering electric shocks to a participant in another room as punishment for not learning a word task. The shock recipient was complicit in the deception and received no shocks, but play acted as if he was being shocked and was suffering. Surprisingly, 65% of the subjects administered shocks they believed to be up to the maximum 450 volts, even when the victim was pleading to have it stop.
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| | Winona Ryder Crazy Eyes at Experimenter Premiere 53rd New York Film Festival | | Added 8 years ago | Source: Dickism |
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Here is Winona Ryder attending the ‘Experimenter’ premiere during the 53rd New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center.
Those are the eyes of a absolute murderous loon. I like Winona, but the dude above is right….I wouldnt even give her a sharp stick.
After here arrest a few years back Nonie was hounded by the Pap so much so she has developed an almost phobia of photographers especially in groups. The poor woman is probably terrified & wanting to run from the stage so guys cut her some slack.
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| | Winona Ryder is thrifty: 'I?ve worn dresses to the Oscars that I got for $10' | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Winona Ryder covers the March issue of Red magazine. I think she’s promoting the UK release of Turks & Caicos, a tv movie that stars Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes, Bill Nighy, and many more. I’m just glad to see Winona on a cover no matter what she’s doing. Red is pulling the comeback card with its caption, which Winona will not appreciate. She’s been “back” for years now.
Winona looks positively ethereal in this shoot. She’s still a bit gothy with the eye makeup, but the styling here is very mature and grown-up. I still cannot believe she’s 42 years old, which makes me feel really ancient. Winona discusses more stuff about how she loves getting older. She’s already “psyched to get older” and “proud of the little bit of traffic” on her forehead. Now Winona adds that we should all aspire atowards Native American attitudes towards aging. She also reveals that some of her Oscar dresses only cost $10! I love this:
Her ’80s image: “The 1980s was the era of the blonde cheerleader. The description of my character in the first few movies I did was always ‘nerdy,’ but I liked that, it was way more interesting.”
More on aging: “[Native Americans] have this incredible respect for their elders — it?s like the older you get, the more awesome you are. I?m hesitant to say this because I don?t want to knock anybody who?s done it, but the whole thing with plastic surgery…When you?re around people who celebrate age and respect every line for telling a story, it?s beautiful. I wish there was more of a celebration of getting older. When I do magazine shoots, people always say, ‘Oh, she doesn?t age,’ but I have the best make-up people and photographers. I don?t look like that every day.”
Helen Mirren is her landlord: “She and Taylor Hackford have this mansion and I rent a little cottage in the back. If I?m having a problem with the house, she?ll come up and fix it. She is everything you would hope she?d be: wonderful, warm and funny. I had to tell her I love Prime Suspect so much that, for 10 years, I stayed in hotels under the name DCI Jane Tennison.”
Her personal style is thrifty: “Most of my wardrobe is vintage and I’ve worn dresses to the Oscars that I got for $10. At Sean Penn’s last Haiti gala I wore this vintage dress that I’d worn to a film premiere in 2005. I know that’s kind of a no-no in the fashion world, but why wear something just once if you love it?”
Her 30s were rough: “I went through stuff that I probably should have gone through much younger, but I had spent my twenties working. Even when I was the right age for older roles, people thought of me as being younger. It was tough because I?d had so much success in my early twenties.”
[From Red Online]
I think it’s very cool that Winona is repurposing some of her “old” red carpet looks (like Keira Knightley with her wedding dress). Of course if everyone repurposed dresses, we’d have almost nothing to talk about with the Oscars. I think my interest in repurposing is geared more towards everyday looks. Even when someone is rich, it seems like a real waste to competely toss out a wardrobe for a new season. Unless they’re donating the clothing, which makes sense. I do want to know which Oscar dresses only cost $10. Winona should do a full reveal.
Photos courtesy of Red magazine
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| | Winona Ryder Hit the Film Premiere of Homefront in Las Vegas | | Added 10 years ago | Source: Dickism |
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Ms. Crazy eyes…
Here is Winona Ryder hitting the red carpet at the premiere of their new film Homefront at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. She is wearing a Cushnie et Ochs dress, Armani shoes, a Christian Louboutin bag, and Fred Leighton earrings and ring.
The film follows a former DEA agent (Jason Statham) who moves his family to a quiet town, where he soon tangles with a local meth druglord (Franco). The movie, which also stars Kate Bosworth, will be in theaters everywhere on November 27!
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| | Winona Ryder is really tired of hearing the word 'comeback?: fair enough' | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Winona Ryder covers the December issue of V magazine to promote her role in Homefront, in which she plays a biker gang chick who sells meth and kidnaps children. Her lover in the movie is a very sleazy
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| | Winona Ryder: I?m 'very proud of' the 'little bit of traffic now on my forehead' | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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A few weeks ago, we talked about Winona Ryder covering the May issue of Interview magazine (to promote her role in The Iceman) and looking devastatingly beautiful in the process. Now some interview excerpts have finally surfaced, and Winona covers several topics that she has not discussed before in a public forum.
Among the items of conversation are Winona’s thoughts on her 2001 shoplifting arrest (and the subsequent fallout) as well as her mixed feelings on the word “comeback.” In addition, Winona claims that she has never had any work done at all on her face. I am assuming that she is only referring to plastic surgery but might also be talking about Botox. This might be surprising (or even unbelievable) to some of you because Winona has always looked younger than her actual age. She’s now 41 years old, and she recently revealed that she was actually very psyched to turn 40, which is such a refreshing perspective not only for an actress but for anyone, really. In this interview Winona talks about being proud of the “traffic” on her forehead. Let’s do this:
She hasn’t had plastic surgery: “It’s funny, because I went straight from the Interview shoot to this premiere, and I still had on all the makeup, and my friend told me that some people were literally saying that I’d had work done — which, by the way, I?ve found is normal hygiene now on sets. I’m not trying to knock it, but, you know, I have a little bit of traffic now on my forehead — which I?m like very proud of actually — and it’s interesting how people just instinctively are like, ‘Oh, maybe you should get something done for that.’ And it’s like, ‘Really?’”
On aging in Hollywood: “You cannot please everyone. When you start out as a kid and then you have these great roles early on and even into your twenties, you’re doing movies like Reality Bites, people want you to stay the same, but then they kind of don’t. People don’t want you to get older, but then it’s like, ‘Why do you look so young?’”
On her early career: “Looking back — and this is all in retrospect — I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career. But I did also have this thing that was sort of happening in my late twenties where, whether it was because of how I looked or because I started so young, even though I was the right age for things, people didn’t think that I was old enough.”
On her 2001 arrest for shoplifting: “I was starting to have some trouble before that. I think a lot of people think that that is what sort of sent me off in another direction, but I was actually starting to have some trouble a few years before. And then there were also a couple of movies that I was going to do, that were all set up, and then, at the last minute, they fell apart… And with what happened . . . I was living up in San Francisco and I really needed the time off, which ended up being a couple of years. In a weird way, it was almost like the best thing that could have happened because I?d never asked myself the question before of, ‘Is it okay if I’m not going to act? Is there anything else?’ because that was all that I really knew.”
On her “comeback”: “I have to admit, though, that every time I hear ‘comeback, blah, blah, blah,’ it’s kind of hard for me. I’m not trying to be super-sensitive at all, but there is a little bit of defensiveness because I do feel like I have contributed. Even if I’d just made Beetlejuice and Heathers, I put in work.”
[From Interview]
I think Winona sounds very wise while reflecting upon her unfortunate run-in with the law in the form of shoplifting. To her, that incident may not have been the very beginning of her troubles, but it was effectively the wake-up call she needed to take some time out from Hollywood. So she went away for awhile and worked on herself, and she came back much stronger. Wino forever!
Photos courtesy of Interview magazine
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