Winona Ryder loves working with the young co-stars she’s been given over the last several years, but there is one aspect of them she isn’t exactly a fan of: their diminished love of film.
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August 28, 2024 • In a recent LA Times profile, Winona Ryder spoke from the heart about her career, and her love of movies. She spent some time talking about Gena Rowlands, mentioning that she still has her contact info and mementos saved from when they worked together on Jim Jarmusch's 1991 anthology film Night on Earth. She tells the reporter that she's been texting with Jarmusch recently, and still corresponds with former co-stars Keanu Reeves and Daniel Day-Lewis through handwritten letters.
• Because of her old school tastes and style, she is naturally concerned about the lack of spirit and future in filmmaking, a spirit she says carried her through her career. She says, “I’m not a religious person. I’m not anti-religion, but I feel like the closest is film and it’s to me a very sacred thing. I feel so protective, but I’m not in any place to be in control. It’s not up to me.”
• She says that some of that worry does have to do with some of her younger co-stars have "a lack of curiosity" about film. She adds that she is appreciative when she works with film lovers who reminder her of herself, telling the reporter that Stranger Things co-star Finn Wolfhard is obsessed with Elliott Gould, and that her Beetlejuice Beetlejuice co-star and fellow Tim Burton muse Jenna Ortega nearly brought her to tears when Ortega brought up the 1964 film I Am Cuba while they were setting up a shot in the early days of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice filming.
• She does say, "I don’t mean to sound so hopeless. There are a few that are just not interested in movies. Like, the first thing they say is, ‘How long is it?’ ”
• In the interview, Ryder admits that she is "consciously" a relic. She doesn't use social media, and doesn't really love the way films have transitioned to digital cinematography. The reporter says, "[Ryder] wants to turn back the clock just a bit. "I don't know what could happen, but if there's some sort of detox and reset, because you have to build character."
• The reporter notes that even as Ryder is going back in time and reprising one of her most iconic roles, she is also facing an ending now that Stranger Things is finally ending after ten years. She's wondering on what to do next and she feels the pressure of aging, especially because even Meryl Streep once told her that she wasn't getting many roles outside of "witch" or "mom" during the early 2000s.
• The interview ends with the reporter asking if she feels any pressure or feels any expectations on what she does next because of how meaningful her work is to many people. Ryder says no, that she's lucky and she that she wants, "to live in that world where artists stay really true."
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