Winona Ryder says that the casting director told her that she was not "pretty enough" to be an actor
The rising star and the daughter of the 90s were advised to pursue a different career.
Not all child actor manages to make the transition to Teen Star, not to mention the adult A-Lister. Winona Ryder , however, has managed to sail in the ups and downs since its debut in the cinema at 15 in the drama for adolescents of 1986, Lucas . After having burst as one of the original girls of the 80s, the young actor became one of the most requested Girls from the 90s . While she had treated with career acclaises, Ryder made a major return in mid-2010 when she was interpreted as Joyce Byrs during the Hit de Netflix, Foreign things .
At 51, Ryder has a long list of credits to look back, but at the time when she heard for the first time, her success was not guaranteed. The star explained in an interview that her look and non -traditional style led at least one casting director to tell him that she was not "pretty enough" to be an actor and advise him to try a different career. It may not be a surprise that someone who has become famous for being unique was not dissuaded by comments like that. Read the continuation for more than Ryder shared to be judged for its appearance as a budding adolescent.
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Ryder was the Gothic girl next door.
While Ryder played a support role in Lucas , that gave him enough screen time this filmmaker Tim Burton noticed it. In an interview collected in 1995 Burton on Burton , the director said that seeing his performance in this film was what convinced him to throw it Star . The 1988 successful film led to a series of other quirky adolescent roles, in particular by playing Dear girl in Sirens , being the Veronica in a world of Moors , and with opposite Johnny Depp In Edward Scissorhands .
Ryder was already going out with Depp at the time Edward Scissorhands rolled in 1990, having met him at first of the Jerry lewis biopic Large fireballs . The two became the hottest couple in the red carpet in the early 90s, cementing the rising star as an unconventional sexual symbol. Even after their breakup and Depp changed His tattoo "Winona Forever" To read "Wino Forever", it simply added to his mystical sorrow.
But all casting directors have not seen its appeal.
Ryder cemented his return to list A with Foreign things , but even before that, she was on the right track for a return with 2012 The Iceman , 2013 House front and two episodes of the central series Comedy, Drunken story . During this period, she made a Cover the story of Interview magazine , in which she talked about her experiences trying to enter Hollywood in the mid-80s. "I was unusual-I did not seem to be the time," she said to the exit in 2013.
"If you look Lucas - And, fundamentally, my first five or six films - the characters are not described in scripts like attractive people, "said Ryder." So I marked in the sense that if I hadn't done it, I don't know I would have been thrown into other things because I was not really considered a beauty. ""
She continued by saying that she was fully aware that it was the opinion of the industry about her, and it was not only through her agents or the rumor mill according to which she heard these things. "I remember once in particular. I was in the middle of hearing, and I was in the middle of the sentence when the casting director said:" Listen, kid. You shouldn't be an actress. You are not pretty "", recalls Ryder. "'You should go back where you come from, and you should go to school. You don't have it.'"
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However, comments like it did not deter it.
For some potential adolescent actors, an experience like this would have been the soul strike. But Ryder raised the shoulders of the commentary. "She was very frank - I honestly think she thought she was making me a favor," said Ryder Interview . The actor attributes his education for allowing him to let this kind of criticism move from his back. "[L] is a testimony of my parents and how they raised me-I was not crushed," she said. "They had always instilled me that it was much cooler to be an individual and to be unique and that you do not want to melt."
As a established star, Ryder always affirms his individuality through the roles she chooses. In an interview Yahoo! Movies Also from 2013, the actor said she had been Picky on adult roles , refusing anywhere where she is a one -dimensional mother or woman. "I am not interested in playing the girl who is right there to make the guy speak, you know, give him a word," she explained.
She embraces aging.
For Interview , Ryder spoke of the confusing accent on the age perceived in the industry, remembering the way she was told that she looked too young for certain roles at the start of her career, even if she would play someone who was his peer. As a woman who was then in her forties, she also discussed the pressure so that the aesthetic procedures appear younger. "I do not try to hit him, but, you know, I have a little traffic now on my forehead - which I am very proud of - and it is interesting how instinctively people are like" oh, can -Itre that you should do something for that ', "she said." And it's like, "really?" "
These experiences are not limited to Ryder either. Many of his contemporaries have similar stories. The series Yellow jackets , currently broadcast on Showtime, features three of the ancient Ryder co-stars: Christina Ricci ( Sirens ),, Fawn cypress ( Fall in New York ), And Juliette Lewis ( The Darwin Awards ). In a interview with THE Hollywood Reporter , they were questioned about their own adolescent roles and what industry looked like, especially for women. "We come from the 90s where, when I had blond hair, I was the pretty Airhead, then I dyed my dark hair, and I was the sarcastic girl Wisecracking," tightened Lewis to be by train to be typical. SA CO-STAR Melanie Lynskey recalled that when she was younger, "[l] with feedback was constantly like:" You are not beautiful. You are not beautiful. ""
She transmits what she learned to her young co-stars.
Talk to Harper bazaar In 2022, Ryder admitted that to face glory as a young woman led to dark moments "because [she] simply did not take care of [herself]". When she worked on 1993 THE Age of innocence , his co-star Michelle Pfeiffer stretched her hand. "I remember that Michelle was like" it will pass. "But I couldn't hear it," said Ryder. Now she tries to make sure that the next generation of stars does, in particular by supporting the younger distribution of Foreign things . "I want children to understand, it does not happen," she said about the popularity of the series and the stress of light. "And I always tell them:" Work is the reward! "Because when I was this age, it was so difficult to enjoy the fruits of my work." AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
