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Post by ilovewinona on Feb 7, 2010 7:11:21 GMT -5
This part of the article is so enjoyable in a way, Winona and Kaysen sort of bonding together, I like it. ---- ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) ----- Suddenly she leaned toward me. "Don't you think we look alike?" she asked. I had to laugh. She was so pretty and young. At that moment, travel-worn and still hungry, I felt how middle age had sapped my energy and resilience. "I wish we did," I told her. "You don't think we do?" She sounded almost forlorn."Well, we're both small," I said. "Do you think my hair is too short?" she asked. I could reassure her on that. "No," I said. "I had it even shorter." "You want to see some of the movies?" "Yes" I said, I was eager. "Just dailies. Kind of confusing." She popped a casssette into the slot. It was kind of confusing. Like the shooting I'd seen earlier, it was many takes of the same scene, only the discussions in between wwere gone, so the scenejust kept repeating itself. ----- ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Feb 12, 2010 8:14:05 GMT -5
We watched for half an hour. She was intent, leaning forward to look. "Do you do this every night?" I asked. "Yes," she said not taking her eyes off the screen. "Why?" "To remember what I did?" She turned toward me. "We don't shoot it in sequence, and this helps me keep it straight. And to remind myself of things Jim told me. Mostly, though, to check my work." Her assistant came in, ready to take me back to the hotel. Although I was tired, I didn't want to leave. I felt a rush of protective affection for Winona, poised in front of the TV with her snood askew. I wanted her to get a good night's sleep. I wanted her to not worry that her hair was too short. We both stood up. On an impulse, I hugged her. "Listen," I said, "You're doing a great job being me. I'm very happy that you're being me." She smiled her wonderful smile, and I left her there, already on the sofa, to continue her work. ----- Sorry to say that's the end of a very enjoyable article that has Winona getting to meet Susanna Kaysen. ----- ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) Rusty
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Post by Charles on Feb 12, 2010 9:52:00 GMT -5
Thanks again, Rusty, that was one of her best interviews . . .
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Post by ilovewinona on Feb 17, 2010 12:48:31 GMT -5
Thanks again, Rusty, that was one of her best interviews . . . ----- A little trivia connected to the last two articles from 2000. I had clipped a few newspaper movie listing when "Girl Interrupted" was first released in theaters. I thought I'd list the other movies that were in theaters when one of Winona's best dramatic movies was showing. Here they are in a little trip down memory lane. ----- "The Hurricane", "Supernova", "Next Friday", "Stuart Little", "Galaxy Quest", "Bicentennial Man", "The Green Mile", "The Talented Mr. Ripley", "Any Given Sunday", "Snow Falling on Cedars", "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo", and "Man on the Moon". ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) ----- Now a newspaper article from January 17, 2000. "Early in Her Career, Ryder Gave Up Skateboarding For Acting". ----- You only think you know how good an actress Winona Ryder is. Trust me on this, she is even a better actress off screen than she is onscreen. She proved that recently during a weekend of interviews to promote her new movie "Girl Interrupted" What no one knew during the press junket was that she smiled her way through dozens of interviews without letting on that she had just gotten over a nasty bout of bronchitis and was still suffering from the lingering effects of the illness. ----- ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Feb 21, 2010 13:58:38 GMT -5
Just two hours before an interview in her Four Seasons hotel suite in Los Angeles, she showed no evidence of being sick as she moved from room to room, speaking with journalists. All the while, she "acted" healthy, and no journalist was the wiser. But later, in the comfort of her own suite, she could no longer keep up the act. The morning sessions has taken their toll, and she was feeling sick enough to start coughing violently . ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Feb 23, 2010 16:54:28 GMT -5
"Please excuse my phlegm," the actress said as she grabbed for another tissue. "I'm not contagious, I promise." Her phlegm was excused, but watching her sit on the edge of a sofa, hunched over trying to clear the congestion in her chest, she suddendly looked very frail This would not be the first time someone thought that about Ryder. With her thin frame and porcelain skin, she is often described as looking frail. "The whole idea of me being frail is kind of funny to me." she said after her coughing subsided. ----- ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Feb 24, 2010 13:21:02 GMT -5
"I guess it's because of my size, but I don't think of myself as frail. My family gets a kick out of it when people describe me that way. I am not frail, and I'm going to tell you something that I don't believe that I've ever talked about in public. ----- People don't know this about me, but I used to be a pretty good skateboarder. I'm talking real good, like I almost turned professional. I was a member of a skateboarding team in the Bay area, and we travelled around the state for competition." ----- ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Feb 25, 2010 9:54:00 GMT -5
"I had to give it up when I was around 16 because studios began forcing me to sign waivers, promising I wouldn't do anything dangerous. It was a hard choice, but I gave up skateboarding to be an actress. I'm fine with that now, but the idea that I'm frail or fragile is silly." Which brings us, of course, to her role in "Girl Interrupted". Based on the memoirs of Susanna Kaysen, who at 17 was institutionalized for two years in a New England hosptial with "borderline personality disorder", the film treads on familiar territory for Ryder. ----- ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Feb 26, 2010 4:02:06 GMT -5
The experience of playing Kaysen in the film triggered unpleasant memories for Ryder, who said she committed herself to a California hospital for five days when she was 19. ----- Although already a rising star at that point (She made "Heathers" when she was 16), Ryder said she was suffering from exhaustion and anxiety attacks. ----- ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Mar 10, 2010 9:12:56 GMT -5
"It was mainly exhaustion, but the anxiety attacks were getting worse, and I didn't know what to do about them. I needed help, but I certainly didn't find it in the place I went to. But at that age, you think that grown-ups have all the answers, so you feel that if you go to someplace like that, and pay enough money, they'll give you a pill or the answers to why you're so confused. ----- ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Mar 14, 2010 9:22:16 GMT -5
"The answer was simply that I was working way too much, and not sleeping enough. I remember thinking at the time that I wish i was anormal college girl, who only had to worry about her greades. Then I realized that normal college girls were thinking that their problems would be solved if only they were big movie stars. ----- ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Mar 19, 2010 1:25:28 GMT -5
"The bottom line is that all girls have pressures. Once I understood that I was just a human being, having the same problems as other human beings, I was OK. But I didn't learn that in the hospital. That's why I left after only five days. I was as bad when I left as I went in." ----- ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Mar 22, 2010 5:48:26 GMT -5
Ryder, 28, started talking about this hospitalization only recently, while publicizing the new movie. She said she was afraid to open a "big can of worms" by revealing her past but decided that it might help girls in similar situations. ----- In fact, she said that is one of the main reasons she wanted to make the movie. The book upon which the film is based helped her get over her problems, making her feel that "I wasn't the only girl having these thoughts," and she hopes that the film will do the same thing for a new generation. ----- ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Mar 24, 2010 8:10:58 GMT -5
"What struck me about the book was its brutal honesty," she explained. "Of course I identified with her. I don't think she belonged in an institution. She saw a psychiatrist for 20 minutes and they locked her up for a couple of years. ----- ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Mar 27, 2010 7:00:36 GMT -5
"There was nothing wrong with Susanna. She was a normal girl with normal girl problems. I want other girls to get this message ----- that everybody goes through rough time, but it doesn't mean you have to be locked up." Ryder said she was so enamored of the book that she tried to secure the movie rights, but producer Douglas Wick already owned them. Wick said his life "got a lot easier"when Ryder expressed interest in starring in the film. ----- ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Rusty
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