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Post by ilovewinona on Apr 18, 2009 6:32:07 GMT -5
Who does that leave for the feminine "Spider" role, that of a female Secret Service agent? Entertainment Weekly reports that Angelina Jolie --- whose "Bone Collector" just superceded Judd's "Jeopardy" as the reigning chick-empowerment flick ----- wants "Spider" duty. The other likely contestant, none other than Jolie's "Girl Interrupted" co-star Winona Ryder. Morgan Freeman has already agreed to reprise his role of detective Alex Cross. These casting notions come from "an insider close to the film." The official word from Jolie's agent is that she hadn't read the script, and there's no word at all from Ryder's reps. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Apr 19, 2009 19:00:27 GMT -5
"It's an amazing female character who's strong and vulnerable at the same time," producer Joe Wizan tells EW. "There are agents chomping at the bit to get into castig. And, hey, look what happened to Ashley Judd after she did "Kiss the Girls"." We're convinced Jolie could tackle the part after seeing "Bone Collector", but picture the waifish Ryder as an action heroine? Hey, she's probably still trying to live down being out-machoed by Sigourney Weaver in "Alien Resurrection". ----- Next up an interview with Winona and ET. Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Apr 20, 2009 4:21:50 GMT -5
From October 1999 -----In this one-on-one interview with ET, Winona Ryder lets her hair down on the set of her hew film, "Lost Souls". Join us as Winona gives up the scoop on her return to the big screen, her outlook on faith, and her hew long locks! ----- Entertainment Tonight - I just read an interview with you that you probably haven't seen yet in L.A. Magazine -- ----- Winona Ryder - Yeah, actually I did see it. ----- ET - So, the things that intrigued me about that ----- some of them are ----- "I'm going back to work and I'm absolutely terrified." Why? ----- Winona - Now, I've calmed down a bit now that I'm in my third week. It's just that everyone gets that fear when you've taken a lot of time off that maybe somehow, in some way, you've forgotten how to do what you do. I think maybe in every profession ..... a writer, who takes a lot of time off. My dad is a writer and talks about how he gets scared that he's not going to be able to construct a sentence again when he gets back from vacation. I think it's a natural fear. And also, just getting into the whole mode of work. It's a different reality ..... a real strange reality. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Apr 20, 2009 19:19:34 GMT -5
ET. - Then you pick a real strange film to star in, I mean, why didn't you pick something -- not easy, but less weird ... I mean, how would you characterize this? ----- Winona - It was very intriguing, firstly because of the director Janusz Kaminski, who I worked with as cinematographer, but who also is just an incredible person who's so talented. I even think I could use the word "genius" at what he does, and I completely always thought he should be a director. So, it was a great opportunity to work with him and he's also a friend. It was something that I just normally would never really have been drawn to, the material, it touches on things that I'm not sure where I stand on in my own life. Things --- God and faith -- things that I think when you're in your 20s you're sort of still figuring out where you stand, so in the film I play a woman of devout faith. A woman who really believes in God and the devil, and it's very kind of far from where I'm at in my life. I certainly believe in energies and stuff like that, but I don't believe in the devil. And so to me, because it was foreign to me, is why it was so intriguing. I think I'm always attracted to things that I feel like are very different from me as an actress. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Apr 26, 2009 19:26:05 GMT -5
ET - Which is one thing that I find really commendable about you is that you never pick roles or films because they're going to be a hit film. ----- Winona - (laughs) - Clearly. Well, I'm drawn to what I'm drawn to. It's actually, oddly, a very easy process for me. I either read something and I love it, or I read something and I don't know how I feel about it. And when I love it, I end up trying to do it. So, you always know that the ones you have to hem or haw over for a couple of days ara usually the ones you shouldn't be doing. But all the elements of this movie are really exciting and it's really a great group of people -- amazing group of actors. I feel just really lucky. It's a good opportunity for me too. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Apr 27, 2009 6:42:46 GMT -5
ET - This is really opposite from you because everybody knows, or a lot of people know, that you grew up in a non-traditional, non-religious family. And then here you are really, really, really acting ..... ------ Winona - Well, what was great about my upbringing is that my parents, being writers and very kinda warm, open, intelligent people, they taught me about all different kinds of religion. They just didn't say for me to lean towards any specific one. My mom was very Buddhist, so that was probably the biggest influence on me when I was growing up. I went to Buddhist schools when I was young. They both grew up very religious in the 50's and they didn't want to inflict anything on us, so they wanted us to choose. They definately weren't anti-religion. But I did kinda grow up in this very loose, you know ..... I did not grow up with the fear of God -- I'll put it that way. And, this movie deals with that. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on May 2, 2009 5:53:37 GMT -5
ET - I envy you, because I did. The Bible vs. fear and love of God ..... ----- Winona - Well, it seems like everyone ends up rebelling against it when they're raised so strictly with it. You know, Madonna, perfect example ..... she's done everything to embracing it to rebelling to shocking. But I appreciate all different religions and I think you should take what you can from each one of them and make up your own. -----ET - A la carte. So this movie's a lot about faith. Talk to me about faith ..... Do you have faith? Faith in what? ----- Winona - That's a very difficult question, because faith is so associated with religion. When you hear the word, you automatically think of ..... But I think of it as believing in something, and I certainly have that. I have faith in myself, my family, my friends -- it's kind of a boring answer, but it's too difficult. ----- ET - It is tough. ---------- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on May 6, 2009 5:12:59 GMT -5
Winona - It's too difficult .... I mean, I'd to go into like a whole .... We'd have to have a four-hour conversation about that. I can't sum it up. ----- ET - So, the audience doesn't think that's how you look now? ----- Winona - Ohhhhh. Today, we're filming the very end of the movie, so I look a bit wrecked. I really look much better than this. ----- ET - Is that your real hair -- they always have me ask that question? ----- Winona - Yeah, actually I grew it out .... I grew it out for the movie. I kind of lightened it. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on May 8, 2009 7:59:16 GMT -5
ET - What can you tell me, without giving too much away, about the film? ----- Winona - I would say, as simply as I can, without giving away too much because it is a thriller and there's a lot of twists and turns. I would say it's about someone of great faith having to convince someone, who's completely devoid of faith, that they're the center of a conspiracy having to do with the devil. And having to do it in a certain amount of time -- the clock is ticking. That's probably about the best I can do. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on May 10, 2009 5:55:55 GMT -5
ET - That's fine. You don't believe in God and the Devil, but you believe in good and evil, I imagine. ----- Winona - Yeah, I believe in good energy and bad energy, definitely. ----- ET - At the end of a grueling day in this dark subject, is it easy for you, after they say wrap to leave it behind? ----- Winona - It's never really easy to do that, but being that I'm turning 27 next week and being someone who doesn't have a family that I go home to, and I don't have children to take care of ..... if I had that it would probably be a lot easier, night and day, to separate, but because I just kinda wander back to my hotel room, it does linger with you, definitely ..... The mood of the movie. But in a good way, in a way that just keeps you focused. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on May 13, 2009 9:03:27 GMT -5
ET - Now, that you're back in the public eye -- ----- Winona (laughs) - Back in the public eye! ----- ET - Remember you took that hiatus. ----- Winona - No, no, it's just that I've never heard it put that way. That's fine. ----- ET - Because you took this hiatus ..... Right? Are people still pestering you? Am I missing the boat? You know, the cameras .... the shutterbugs that bother you all the time? ----- Winona - Oh, you know, it just kind of comes with it. It's really an impossible thing to complain about, because if you complain about it, you get the "Well, why are you an actress in the first place" arguement, which is impossible to have 'cause it really has nothing to do with being pestered by vultures with cameras. They're very separate. I love what I do for a living and this just goes along with it, unfortunately. It's not been bad, I haven't gotten it too bad. I think people are really used to be 'cause I've been around for -- I'm going into my 15th year making movies -- and I was never like an overnight sensation. I'm just kind of there. Certainly there's nothing Leonardo-ish about me right now. ----- Well that's the entire interview. Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on May 14, 2009 3:20:47 GMT -5
The other day I was looking through a box of old magazines with articles about Winona and found this 1994 nine by twelve inch newspaper clipping titled ----- Ryder's Short Career Varied and Successful ----- Sitting in a hotel room, politely working her way through interviews for her new film, "Reality Bites". Winona Ryder is, in her own quiet way, agog. It's the morning after the night she won the Golden Globe best supporting actress award for her performance in "The Age of Innocence", and she assures a visitor that neither she nor any of her friends thought she was going to win. ----- More coming up! ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on May 15, 2009 4:33:51 GMT -5
"I'm not quite here yet," she smiles. "It was really a shock. And I wish that I had had some inkling, because I wish I had prepared something. I don't even know what I said; they told me they'd get me a tape. I felt like I couldn't talk, I went completely blank. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on May 20, 2009 7:34:00 GMT -5
I had been in Reno last week gambling, and at the casinos they were putting money on who was going to win. Rosie Perez (from "Fearless") was even money, Anna Paquin (from "The Piano") was second and I was like last. I don't know why I would trust a casino more that anyone else, but no one told me that they thought I was going to win. Except my sister called me, because she had a dream that I won, and said "I think you should prepare something." ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on May 23, 2009 6:09:05 GMT -5
More shocks may be in store, since Ryder also has received a nomination for best supporting actress for her role in "Innocence" as a young high-society wife in 1870's New York. Ryder was unusually corseted for the role ----- not just in her period fashions but in her role, which required her to be a demure, witless presence for the first half of the film before unleasing flash in the second half. "I think people were sitting there for the firsy half going, "What is she?" Ryder says, mimicking a half-stupefied expression. "All that thanklessness turns out to be the hardest stuff I've ever done. Pretending you're fine when you're really heartbroken is pretty hard." ----- Rusty
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