Winona Ryder Knows How To Give An Interview
I have always been on the fence with Winona Ryder. If it is the right role she can absolutely be an incredible actress, but at the same time I think she phones in a lot of roles as well and then she will do or say something and I will be off her bandwagon. Right now I am back on her bandwagon and may even watch Heathers tonight. She gave an interview to Elle this month, and for once I really can't find anything bad to say about any of her quotes that I have read. She seems to have her act together. I also didn't realize she was 37, and so maybe that has something to do with having her act together. Although, in Hollywood, age doesn't always equal maturity. Hello Pamela Anderson.
She talks about her breakup with Johnny Depp when she was 19.
"I had just done Dracula and Edward Scissorhands. I had just had my first real break-up, the first heartbreak. And I think it was really ironic because, like, everybody else just thought I had everything in the world, you know, I had no reason to be depressed, everything was sort of at its peak, but inside I was completely lost. I remember feeling, 'I can't complain about anything, because I'm so lucky, I'm so lucky.' After that I realized I needed to take time off more [regularly]."
She was 19 and thought she was going to be with someone forever and was at the top of the world, and then wham. I mean she was 19 and I know this interview is looking at things in retrospect, but it seems very open and honest. I like how Elle got the director of her new movie to do the interview. I think because she had that trust with the director, she gave a better interview than she would have with a reporter.
She also says very nice things about Kate Winslet so that gains some serious points in my book.
"During the Oscars, I was thinking about how she totally has that thing, she has her family and children and life and she seems really together and solid – and yet she can completely devastate you on the screen."
I'm not even going to complain about Elle putting an actress on the cover instead of a model. Wow, I must be drunk.
