Newest Winona Ryder interview

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She a bitch.

“ Parts of Lydia remind Ryder of a younger version of herself. “In my 30s, I had two disastrous relationships that were—they weren’t wrong, but this was before you would ever think to Google someone,” she says. “When I look back, I’m like, ‘What the hell was I thinking?’ ”

Who are these two?

r3 One was probably Jamerakai who called her a sex addict.

r4 - was that a butchered spelling for Jamiroquai?

r5 yes

LOVE her - the one time I met her she was hilarious and sweet.

r4 embarrassed herself

She looks beautiful. Love her.

When Noni was in her thirties (2001-2010), googling people was absolutely a thing. Why is she trying to make herself sound even older than she is?

R10 You tried

Seriously, I am her age and googled people all the time in my 30s.

Tina Fey? Way more attractive than Fey, andTina never had anything near the body Ryder had.

I’m here for her comeback.

What is responsible for the absolutely batshit crazy bunny-boiler eyes that just seemed to show up one day out of nowhere? They definitely weren't always there. It seems now like she can't take a single photo without looking like Ramona Singer walking the runway.

Is it a botched eye job or what?

What is up with that body pose? It's like they were trying really hard to come up with a new one at an angle never seen before. Comes across like a parody of a celeb puff piece.

In spite of the contortionist pose, I think she looks like Olivia de Havilland there.

The other photos are so much better.

She's still pretty.

One of the great screen beauties. Look ad Dracula and Age of Innocence and tell me I'm lying.

I think she aged well

I always thought she was more cool looking than beautiful. She wasn't great in Dracula, but she looked amazing. Fortunately for her, Keanu drew the attention for his horrible acting.

Check her bags...

R10 Google was not a thing in the early aughts even it existed. You know what she means.

She has eyes made for acting. When she feels a scene her eyes register. A natural actor not meant for everything. But in in the right part she absolutely draws you in.

Just sound contrite and humble. We’re not getting another chance at this.

She reminds me of a goth Snow White.

[quote] I’m here for her comeback.

Kind of.

She got a raw deal but she was no angel. But the punishment did not fit the crime.

Far more did far worse for far less.

Her biggest problem was that she never aged. She was always 21 and looked 21 and, eventually, you have to resemble a grown up.

Even now it’s debatable.

She went from Jodie Foster to Sean Young overnight.

Her comeback has already happened. Stranger Things is one of the biggest shows of all time.

By Hollywood standards she didn't do anything too egregious to anyone. Always professional and friendly with costars. her one professional blemish is dropping out of Godfather 3 a couple of weeks before shooting but she really had to be worn down at time. It's Sofia Coppola's assault on on film that even makes it all that bad.

Did she ever give an explanation for her shoplifting because it was more than twice right.

[quote] her one professional blemish is dropping out of Godfather 3 a couple of weeks before shooting

If she gutted it out for that film and cheap-ass Paramount paid Duvall what he was worth, “Godfather III” would have been a classic.

R31 she dated Matt Damon from 1998 to 2000. She got caught shoplifting in 2001. Coincidence? I think not. Dating that closet case would drive anyone over the edge.

She did Mermaids, Edward Scissorhands and Welcome Hone Roxy Carmichael back to back to back. No one can blame her from being exhausted especially with the the insane fame she got at the time after Heathers.

I *adored* 90's Winona like everyone else.

But I think she's been..um...unstable for decades now and I don't get the sense she's gotten much better. The weirdo poses and crazy eyes just add to my suspicion. She now seems to vacillate (like lots of mentally ill people) between nuts and numb- medicated. I was intrigued when she was cast in Stranger Things but I when I watched her, I felt it was lifeless, phoned in performance compared to her early work. I'd bet money she needs to stay on her meds to be insurable.....but the performances suffer. Her personality has always been sort of juvenile.....and youth really suited her. Middle age just doesn't seem to be her bag.

I know a lot of people say she never got over Johnny and I'm sure that's in there....but Angelina Jolie should get an honorable mention for stealing her thunder (and never really giving it back) in "Girl, Interrupted."

[quote] Did she ever give an explanation for her shoplifting because it was more than twice right.

Living above your means while socializing with trust-fund nepo babies and struggling to maintain the facade of great success and wealth during a lull in your career.

I don’t feel sorry for celebrities but she got a raw deal. People in their 20s are typically idiots and in that business it has to be compounded exponentially.

Considering she was indeed a child star, she’s lucky to be alive.

Good for her having a resurgence.

R36 She could afford the things she stole. Come on now she wasn’t that broke.

“I won’t get into what happened, but it wasn’t what people think. And it wasn’t like the crime of the century!”

Re aging:

“It’s that line in First Wives Club -- ‘There are three ages for women: babe, district attorney and Driving Miss Daisy!’ I just never got to play that district attorney.”

It was obviously acting out. Someone who is worth millions and millions of dollars stealing like 4 thousand dollars worth of clothes doesn't make a malicious criminal. She paid it back instantly but still had to go court and receive public humiliation. She hurt no one. As mentioned above it's nothing compared to most.

R37 Never assume someone’s financial situation.

Even though it seems easy.

Roman Polanski has more forgiveness and love than Winona Ryder.

Let that sink in.

Oh please she was a millionaire may times over at that time. She was in no way broke and stole clothes.

R42 = Winona’s accountant .

I really can't blame her. No one wants to pay those exorbitant prices.

That kind of stealing is not about whether or it someone can actually afford items (like when poor people steal food or diapers) it’s about getting some kind of psychological pleasure

Wearing the Free Winona t-shirt on SNL was a mistake.

[quote] Wearing the Free Winona t-shirt on SNL was a mistake.

She was never shrewd. Even dense.

Terrible advisors and piss poor management.

She should play Liza in a bio pic.

GOOP can play Lorna with an N.

Viola Davis as Judy

Timmy O as Vincent

Courtney Love as Peter Allen

I'm sorry but you know me, it has become a bit compulsive as years went by, but OP's photo needed a beaver where the beaver needs to be.

So there... Now I feel better.

R14 I though the crazy eyes was just from drugs, but she didn’t have them back in the 90s, so 🤷‍♀️

She reminds me of Britney Spears, but less trashy. I have a feeling their on the same wavelenght, mentally.

I don't agree, r53. Britney is a brain-dead dumbshit while Winona is smarter, just not as savvy because she didn't have to be (growing up). She was an IT girl, but she turned IT around.

Britney is basic trash who is stoopid and will never change. She thinks she hung the moon and stars and she's BRITNEY, BITCH! She doesn't get it, and never will.

R40 I’m not doing this argument with you. Some on DL like to argue to just argue.

At any rate was she going through some type of anxiety crisis. Can depression cause kleptomania?

With the right script, co-stars and director Winona is effortless. But she needs those to come alive.

Teenage performances: Heathers, Beetlejuice, Mermaids, Edward Scissorhands

20s performances: Dracula, Age Of Innocence, Little Women, The Crucible, Girl Interrupted,

30s performances: Black Swan

40s performances: Stranger Things, The Plot Against America

r54 Britney actually grosses me out, like she looks sticky. Winona doesn't have the ick factor Britney does.

She looks absolutely gorgeous, and I love that she doesn't do the awful long hair thing. She has always had impeccable taste in clothes and personal styling.

Winona never abused drugs. It is obvious she has some kind of anxiety disorder and possibly ADHD but that makes her human.

Come on, that clip where the cast of Stranger Things is accepting some award, she’s high as a kite. It’s become a meme

R60 I believe it’s meds not narcotics. And you don’t know that she was high. I think she has anxiety and maybe changed meds. I know exactly what you are talking about. She is fucking riot. I love her.

r59 She was addicted to drugs. When she got arrested, the cop said it would be a shame if she was found slumped over in a car one day with a needle in her arm. She was abusing painkillers and opioids.

R62 O didn’t know that. I stand corrected then.

She was indeed high or in the midst of some kind of weird episode during the Stranger Things awards show. I think Christina Ricci was doing press for something around that time and was asked about it (maybe by Andy Cohen on WWHL) and she shut it down immeadiately and got very protective of Winona- pretty pissed on her behalf. She made it clear that she couldn't say much....but the implication was that CR thought everyone was a jerk for laughing at Winona in the same way you'd be a jerk for making fun of, say, special needs kids. It was a very 'she-can't-help-it' vibe.

R63 Here it is

Why does this actress get beaten up online by a sea of strangers whenever she shows her face in public?

I had a friend who said she went through a shoplifting phase in her 20s, she said her mother used to shoplift at one point and her grandmother still did. None of them needed to as all of them were comfortably financially.

Her lawyer was right to object to the release of that report.

People need to stop re-hashing the shoplifting of the early aughts. FFS it was almost 25 years ago. She was punished, has not re-offended that we know of, and she deserves the relief of not being reminded of it.

LOVE her!

Once in St. Olaf I was sentenced to probation and mandatory drug counselming: you only get counseling if you're consuming drugs. It has a very high compliance rate and a lot of people opt for mandatory drug counselming.

R67 Most tween/teen girls seem to have an inexplicable brief shoplifting phase--usually between 13-15. I have a ton of sisters and each of them as well as my junior high gal pals had one summer where they'd maniacally lift all kinds of little nonsense things like cheap jewelry from Clair's or makeup or hair clips. It would start off with one or two things then by the end of the summer they'd be coming home from the mall with hundreds of dollars worth of shit and drunk with power. Either they'd get scared straight by one of their friends getting caught or they'd just grow out of it, but they all eventually stopped.

I'm not sure what it is--maybe it's just a rebellion thing but it seems like a kind of adolescent rite of passage for girls.

However, shoplifting unnecessarily as an adult tends to be associated with Borderline Personality, which makes sense because Borderline adults basically stop psychologically maturing between 13-16. Shoplifting, promiscuous sex, substance abuse, arrested development....who does that sound like?

[quote] Most tween/teen girls seem to have an inexplicable brief shoplifting phase--usually between 13-15.

Get a load of Dr. Joyce Brothers over here. Is from your peer-reviewed study?

R72 Just Google 'teen girls + shoplifting', and you will find many, MANY articles and studies on it.

R13 What comeback? She's been on a hit show for years now

I like Winona, but always found her acting suspect. She was huge in the late 80s through the late 90s, but I never felt there was a film that she was truly stellar in, warranting all of the things she was put in. I think I found her most believable in Girl, Interrupted, but even there she seemed wooden at times.

I used to shoplift as a child. It doesn't make you a bad person, it's not like you're stealing a poor person's purse.

I don’t think yall realize how old Winona Ryder was in 2001. She was born in the early 70s. She was neither a child nor a teen.

I don’t think she is a very versatile actor but someone said it above. It’s the eyes. Some actors just have it. She has perfect expressive eyes. She shines in genre stuff like Stranger Things and Beetlejuice.

She looks like Juliette Binoche and Isabella Rossellini mixed together.

She's still very cute and sexy.

Any lesbian rumours about her?

His she stolen anything good lately?

R80. My heart...

What Jamiroquai (Jay Kay) said about Winona:

[quote]"That was quite a while ago [...] She was very nice and trim down there. And she has these enormous breasts. She did have this habit of wanting to constantly play hide the sausage. It was exhausting."

What Jamiroquai (Jay Kay) said about Winona:

[quote]"That was quite a while ago [...] She was very nice and trim down there. And she has these enormous breasts. She did have this habit of wanting to constantly play hide the sausage. It was exhausting."

R79: I believe there were rumors about her and Courtney Love at some stage

Apologies for the duplicate post

Susanna Hoffs, Winona Horowitz, Natalie Hershlag all have that petite dark/pale look that drives heterosexual men wild.

[Quote] [R10] Google was not a thing in the early aughts even it existed.

Have you had a stroke?

Google was the most popular search engine in the world by 2000, just two years after it was released. And people absolutely, positively googled other people even before Google started. I like her but she was talking nonsense there.

r77 We do, actually, because we are able to calculate the difference between 1971 (her birth year) and 2001.

By the way, “googled other people” small g meaning “put their name through a search engine.”

Google has become like q tip or band aid.

Re. Winona having some lesbian tendencies....years ago someone here claimed she had an affair with Jodie Foster back in the day. Who knows if it's true though

When did people stop Yahooing and start googling?

Was it around the time of the Compuserve Pride Forum?

It would be completely understandable if a huge movie star back in the 90s or aughts didn't use a computer. Why would they? They had the world at their fingertips and no real need for "googling."

Get real. People existed without Google, just like we all didn't have Netflix, or multitudes of other modern conveniences.

[Quote] When did people stop Yahooing

In red states it’s still popular.

Same pathetic troll who creates equally boring Courtney Love posts like it’s 1994.

Oh all this fuss when I'm sure it was a simple misunderstanding!

I think she's talking about the guy from Helmet. He wrote a bunch of songs about her. They weren't complimentary. Helmet sucked anyway

I used to think Stars had to accept press intrusion and paparazzi etc. But now I don't believe that at all. The movie they make that ends up entertaining us, means they did the job they were paid for. Why did it all get so out of hand.

Still gorgeous!

And I love that she was a huge whore. Girl knew how to have fun!

As if anyone who had a relationship with Johnny Depp was sober. Ha!!

Can someone fill me in on what "hide the sausage" means?

Thanks for posting the article, OP. I’m glad I read it and would have never come across it anywhere else.

Whoever styled and photographed her should be fired. She still is very beautiful and she looks awful here. I agree she has the crazy eyes but the lighting and harsh makeup do not help.

I will always have a soft spot for her. I must’ve read my sister’s Seventeen magazine a hundred times when she was on the cover and taking about Johnny, at his peak hotness.

I think she’s really good in Little Women, Reality Bites, and the Age of Innocence.

Winona Ryder is a bitch!

Acting strange at the SAG Awards.

Robert Downey , Jr got so fucking high he ended up in a child’s bed in his neighbors house but the world forgives him. Winona steals some shit and is ostracized forever. At least SHE still has her looks.

I'm happy she's had a comeback while that rancid cunt Gwyneth is basically irrelevant. GOOP shit talked her for all these years, and how has the face of an eighty years old vagina.

R104 She is so dam loveable. She just offbeat.

R105, that's a bit unfair to both of them. RDJ still has his looks IMO - Winona's behavior was seated in mental illness rather than addiction.

Love them both.

R100 It means having sex.

Talentless loon.

And OP's Harper's photo is hideous.

In my day, it was called "play hide the salami/salam"

R31 R55 Shoplifting very frequently has nothing to do with the ability to afford the items. Some people are thrill-seeking. Some people want to "stick it to the man." Some people use shoplifting like a drug to get dopamine hits. Sort of like gamblers or sex addicts. Some people use it as an escape from internal turmoil, inner emptiness. The void. They want to FEEL something, anything. Similar to any addict. It's a more extreme version of going on an impulsive shopping spree after your boyfriend dumps you. Acquiring new "stuff" gives an instant, although fleeting, lift in spirits. New clothes, new you, etc. Take it one step further and you have your shoplifter, who feels a [temporary] rush of happiness and excitement from acquiring new items. Problem is, that rush is so fleeting, it has to be repeated, like all addictions do, over and over again. And the addict must take bigger hits, or risks, to get the same buzz. Eventually you ARE going to get busted.

Those pictures are strange.

This thread is proof that if you stick around long enough in show biz your image will just 180 eventually. It’s funny to read some of these comments.

R55, R112 Shoplifting does seem to be a cry for help. Think Muriel's mom in Muriel's Wedding stealing the cheap jellies from the grocery store. Now SHE was depressed af. Also Edith Bunker's surprising shoplifting and Joan Allen stealing the nail polish in The Ice Storm after realizing her husband is cheating on her. (I re-watched that last weekend.)

I always though Muriel’s mom meant to pay for the sandals, she just forgot

I’m with R115, I don’t think Muriel’s mother shoplifted on purpose.

My own mother, about a month before she died, shoplifting a $3 keychain. It was so out of character for her. I still wonder about it many years later.

R109, thanks so much. Now I see--Winona is a nympho?

^ I remember hearing rumors of her and Johnny Depp having marathon sex sessions in hotel rooms and leaving them trashed complete with shit and piss.

[quote] I always though Muriel’s mom meant to pay for the sandals, she just forgot

She did forget. She was perpetually out to lunch, because she was so unhappy.

r118 Where did you hear that? I did hear the part about the piss and shit, that they had a puppy in their hotel room and the room was left filthy for the housekeeping staff.

I thought the trashing hotels phase was happening more when he was with Kate Moss, no?

I am her age, saw her career from the start and I never got her appeal.

r120 People like embellishing stories from the National Enquirer