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^her hair´s getting long again....I love the pics with Winona!!!
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POP # 9 fw 2004
Christina Ricci by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott
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^^ One of my favorite photoshoots of all time. Of ANYONE.
The article with it mentioned how she just started crying real tears to give something more to the pictures........I love that, she's so damn dynamic.
The article with it mentioned how she just started crying real tears to give something more to the pictures........I love that, she's so damn dynamic.
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An interesting article about her I found.. Sorry if repost..
Christina Ricci: "If a guy looks like he may hate me a little bit, I'm sooo in love."
Friday, August 22, 2008 4:03:36 PM
The sexy outspoken actress on boys, nudity &, of course, shopping in Hollywood.
After those rounded, soulful, I-can-read-minds green eyes, the second thing you notice about Christina Ricci is that she's chatty. She calls herself a "compulsive talker," making it seem more like a medical condition than a personality quirk. Whatever it is, the flurry of stories and opinions start coming hard and fast only a few minutes after we're seated for lunch at Blair's, a popular restaurant in her Silver Lake neighborhood. And the third thing you notice, she's hilariously funny, but not exactly wedded to the truth.
One of the first anecdotes to spill out of Ricci's mouth involves her living situation in Berlin last year, while she was shooting the Wachowski brothers' Speed Racer. Thinking she would feel more at home somewhere edgy, the producers treated their sophisticated star to her own apartment in Berlin's artsy Kreuzberg district - far from the hotel in the touristy area where the rest of the cast and crew were staying. "It was a wonderful apartment in a gorgeous building and the neighborhood was all hipster cool," Ricci deadpans, shaking her head slightly, "but I'm just not a cool hipster. I want to be in a nice pretty area, where there's a Gucci and Louis Vuitton a block away."
Wait, what? The girl sitting across from me in a scoop-necked sailor-striped shirt, designer jeans, black Chuck Taylor high tops, a check Forever 21 hoodie that she had specially tailored and a tan Givenchy bag at her feet...that girl is not a hipster? The one who just bought a house in the trendy Silver Lake area of Los Angeles, where there are no multinational luxury goods stores to be found, let alone a Gucci? Which is not to say that she is a big fibber. She does seem however, to be a bit of an unreliable narrator or "crazy lady" (her term), with a contrarian streak left over from a childhood filled with reporters asking her the same dumb questions over and over. "Sometimes I say things just because I think they sound funny," she shrugs and smiles. "Then you see it in print and it doesn't sound funny at all. But at the table it was hilarious."
True enough, she does kill at the table. Her dry wit, topped with a smattering of self-deprecating cracks, sarcasm, hyperbole, some light profanity and an appreciation of the absurd, makes her a natural entertainer. Most of all, her blend of humor works so well because of its undercurrent of unexpected honesty.
We hit the topic of boys and she claims to have no physical type, but she jokingly (or not) adds she feels drawn to the guys who seem like they could just as easily kiss her as kill her. "If you look like you might hate me a little bit," she says, rolling those huge eyes, "so in love." Because, she says, her voice now dripping with sarcasm (I think), "winning the affection of those kinds of guys means so much more."
As the Oscars have just passed, the subject of what award she would most like to collect inevitably comes up. Ricci flashes an initial look of exasperation the question, probably because the answer is so obvious. Then, in an instant, her Cheshire-cat smile widens. She's come up with an appropriately snarky response that amuses her greatly, but she's not sure it's printable: "Best Outdoor Anal Scene at the Adult Video Awards?" Funny, but not true. Finally, she breaks down, and out comes a version of the truth: "Obviously, I want to win an Oscar, "but she qualifies,"hopefully for a good performance instead of a ****ty one that some studio did a really great campaign for."
Christina Ricci's big-screen career hasn't garnered her any major awards yet, but to have nearly 40 feature films under your belt by the age of 28...let's just say it has gone extremely well. Especially when you consider that she hardly looks or acts like your typical Hollywood starlet. (I know, I know, but stay with me.)
At just a stitch over 5 feet tall, with a beautifully oval Victorian face, exaggerated facial features and moon-dust-white skin, she is one of the more unconventional and ethereal stars acting today. Looking like a character from an Edward Gorey illustration, or someone who stepped out of a Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, she is regularly cast as an outsider of sorts, or in fractured fairy tales. All of which suits her just fine. "My great talent," says Ricci, somewhat shyly, "is understanding and translating complex characters for a film."
Her feature-film debut, however, was different in that way. She played the least complicated character opposite her wacky co-stars, Wynona Ryder and Cher, in 1990's Mermaids. But her standout roles, the ones that confirmed her angsty child superstar status, were the guillotine-wielding Wednesday in the Addams Family movies and her creepy portrayal of a precocious and sexually aggressive '70s teen in Ang Lee's The Ice Storm.
The transition to adult stardom is never easy. Like so many other child actors, she struggled with post-pubescent weight fluctuations and subsequent anorexia. And then there was the film that went famously wrong: Buffalo 66. Starring, written by and directed by the notorious Vincent Gallo, it was a difficult experience for Ricci. But one that seems to have been pivotal in her career, both because she convincingly played a sexualized woman and because it cured her of the desire to say "yes" to projects that just look like a train wreck waiting to happen. She prefers to not talk about the whole thing, though in previous interviews she's said about Gallo and the production, "I'd never encountered such insanity."
With her weight issues under control and a tough film behind her, she charged ahead, and within a year had successfully moved into young-adult roles, making memorable films like The Opposite of Sex (for which she received a Golden Globe nomination), Pecker and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
The one theme that emerges over the course of Ricci's career is that she seems to favor nutty female characters. "One of the things I love about women is that most women are crazy, and most interesting women are the crazy ladies," she says, including herself in the group. "And the crazy things you do as a crazy lady that you just can't help, and nobody finds it all as funny as another crazy lady...or a gay man."
After her turn doing slightly bonkers in The Opposite of Sex went so well, she went on to portray suicidally the depressed Elizabeth Wurtzel in Prozac Nation, then the prostitute girlfriend of the murderer Aileen Wuornos (played by Academy Award winner Charlize Theron) in Monster. But her starring role as Rae, a chained-up, half-naked nymphomaniac in Craig Brewer's Black Snake Moan, may be her most gripping to date.
The year that movie was released - 2007 - turned out to be another turning point for Ricci. Spending nearly her entire film time on-screen in a ripped stars-and-bars half shirt and a pair of skimpy underwear is not a role many actresses would agree to take on, let alone fight to get. But that's just what Ricci did. "Some people read a script and see nudity and sex and stop reading," she says. "I generally look for why it's happening and if it's a reason I can get behind, then it doesn't bother me."
Needless to say, she loved the script, calling it "a frightening example of what could happen when a woman is treated really poorly." The film was not as popular at the box office as she and her co-stars Justin Timberlake and Samuel L. Jackson would probably have liked, but the experience led to her latest real-life role, which she clearly feels passionate about: national spokesperson for RAINN, the r*pe Abuse Incest National Network. She even traveled to Capitol Hill in 2007 to lobby on behalf of RAINN, the nation's largest anti-sexual-assault organization, meeting with legislators and pressing them to pass bills designed to help solve r*pe cases and make communities safer.
2007 also marked the end of her longtime on again off again relationship with actor/director Adam Goldberg, perhaps best known for his stint as Matthew Perry's psycho roommate in several episodes of Friends. They met when he directed her in I Love Your Work, and they were an item until last year. She won't say what happened, because, she explains, "there are too many people involved."
A few other Christina Ricci crumbs left on the table: (Which may or may not be totally true.) She's a sp*z who runs into things once a day; loved Juno, "I cried like a baby"; thinks Viggo Mortensen should have won for an Oscar for fighting in the nude "with his junk flying everywhere"; runs her production company with her sister out of her house; think she's been around ghosts before, but now she' not so sure; feels boys should hide their p*rn; wants to be in a Western, but doesn't want to be dirty for three months; dislikes makeover shows; loves Mystery Diagnosis; wants to write a book called, "The Worst Advice I've Ever Gotten"; grew up partially in New York but never wants to live there again, and feels bad for saying that; wants to do action films and more drama; wants Oprah's main guy, Nate, to come see her house and tell her she did a good job.
As we wrap up lunch and head out for a little shopping at Ricci's favorite area store, Lake boutique on Rowena, the conversation moves back to her upcoming role as Trixie in Speed Racer. And out comes one of the first urgently effusive comments of the afternoon: "It was honestly the most fun I have had making any movie, pretty much ever."
What was so great? She loved her fellow cast mates, Matthew Fox, Emile Hirsch and Australian newcomer Kick Gurry ("He can take a punch"); eccentric writing/directing brother team of Larry and Andy Wachowski ("I was like their dress-up doll"); doing her own stunts ("I learned to pick up a gun in mid-cartwheel on the second take, I basically have no more ambition in life"). But her favorite thing? The outfits, of course. Based on the 1960s Japanime series created by Tatsuo Yoshida, the Wachowski brothers brought their futuristic/fetishistic aesthetic that they perfected making the Matrix series to this hyper-real live action film. "I had outfits for everything," explains Ricci as she points at the John Derian pieces on a display table in back, starting a parallel conversation about how she loves decoupage and has a bunch of his pieces at her house. Continuing with the description of her wild Speed Racer get ups, she says, "The helicopter pilot one was the best. I look like an action figure. It's a zip up leather sleeveless hot pant cat suit. And I wear it with patent leather stiletto boots."
Picking up a blue Dosa cashmere scarf, she says she's "clothes obsessed," a trait she got from her mother. Her father was a scream therapist (yes, that's a job), while he lived with the family, but he divorced her mother when Ricci was 13; he is not her favorite topic. She is, however, on good terms with her mother, a former Ford model. And Ricci gives her mother credit for making her watch Elsa Klensch every week on CNN. "So the second I had any money," she explains, "I was out buying and buying."
Though she regularly manages to choose high fashion that works on the red carpet, and loves to get all gussied up - "I love approval and validation, and if I can get those by dressing well, I am all over it" - Ricci has become less and less of the clothes horse. She takes the Dosa scarf off and puts it back in the pile as we glide around the store some more. She says she loves checks and stripes as she pulls out a nightshirt style dress, and blurts out, "Anytime I can go someplace and dress inappropriately I am so excited, because in L.A. you can't...they'll look at you funny."
When asked about her style, she just mentions one designer, Ben Cho. Which figures, because his slinky skirts and S&M-inspired dresses look great on Ricci's petite but curvy physique. Chic and sophisticated as she appears, there's still a little bit of the irrepressible nuttiness, and that sneaks out from time to time.
Walking her back to her car, I ask about the story behind the Forever 21 hoodie she loves: "You don't understand, half of my wardrobe is from Forever 21, which I call Forever 42 because no one in there is 21." She goes on to describe how the Pasadena branch, "might be heaven on earth," and that her trick is to buy the clothes and then have them either remade in a better fabric or just reinforced. Her tailor has asked why she spends so much money altering such inexpensive clothing, and she tells him: "Better than spending a ton of money on clothes you can't change." She looks over, with those big green eyes, completely sure she's making sense, and laughs.
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Christina Ricci: "If a guy looks like he may hate me a little bit, I'm sooo in love."
Friday, August 22, 2008 4:03:36 PM
The sexy outspoken actress on boys, nudity &, of course, shopping in Hollywood.
After those rounded, soulful, I-can-read-minds green eyes, the second thing you notice about Christina Ricci is that she's chatty. She calls herself a "compulsive talker," making it seem more like a medical condition than a personality quirk. Whatever it is, the flurry of stories and opinions start coming hard and fast only a few minutes after we're seated for lunch at Blair's, a popular restaurant in her Silver Lake neighborhood. And the third thing you notice, she's hilariously funny, but not exactly wedded to the truth.
One of the first anecdotes to spill out of Ricci's mouth involves her living situation in Berlin last year, while she was shooting the Wachowski brothers' Speed Racer. Thinking she would feel more at home somewhere edgy, the producers treated their sophisticated star to her own apartment in Berlin's artsy Kreuzberg district - far from the hotel in the touristy area where the rest of the cast and crew were staying. "It was a wonderful apartment in a gorgeous building and the neighborhood was all hipster cool," Ricci deadpans, shaking her head slightly, "but I'm just not a cool hipster. I want to be in a nice pretty area, where there's a Gucci and Louis Vuitton a block away."
Wait, what? The girl sitting across from me in a scoop-necked sailor-striped shirt, designer jeans, black Chuck Taylor high tops, a check Forever 21 hoodie that she had specially tailored and a tan Givenchy bag at her feet...that girl is not a hipster? The one who just bought a house in the trendy Silver Lake area of Los Angeles, where there are no multinational luxury goods stores to be found, let alone a Gucci? Which is not to say that she is a big fibber. She does seem however, to be a bit of an unreliable narrator or "crazy lady" (her term), with a contrarian streak left over from a childhood filled with reporters asking her the same dumb questions over and over. "Sometimes I say things just because I think they sound funny," she shrugs and smiles. "Then you see it in print and it doesn't sound funny at all. But at the table it was hilarious."
True enough, she does kill at the table. Her dry wit, topped with a smattering of self-deprecating cracks, sarcasm, hyperbole, some light profanity and an appreciation of the absurd, makes her a natural entertainer. Most of all, her blend of humor works so well because of its undercurrent of unexpected honesty.
We hit the topic of boys and she claims to have no physical type, but she jokingly (or not) adds she feels drawn to the guys who seem like they could just as easily kiss her as kill her. "If you look like you might hate me a little bit," she says, rolling those huge eyes, "so in love." Because, she says, her voice now dripping with sarcasm (I think), "winning the affection of those kinds of guys means so much more."
As the Oscars have just passed, the subject of what award she would most like to collect inevitably comes up. Ricci flashes an initial look of exasperation the question, probably because the answer is so obvious. Then, in an instant, her Cheshire-cat smile widens. She's come up with an appropriately snarky response that amuses her greatly, but she's not sure it's printable: "Best Outdoor Anal Scene at the Adult Video Awards?" Funny, but not true. Finally, she breaks down, and out comes a version of the truth: "Obviously, I want to win an Oscar, "but she qualifies,"hopefully for a good performance instead of a ****ty one that some studio did a really great campaign for."
Christina Ricci's big-screen career hasn't garnered her any major awards yet, but to have nearly 40 feature films under your belt by the age of 28...let's just say it has gone extremely well. Especially when you consider that she hardly looks or acts like your typical Hollywood starlet. (I know, I know, but stay with me.)
At just a stitch over 5 feet tall, with a beautifully oval Victorian face, exaggerated facial features and moon-dust-white skin, she is one of the more unconventional and ethereal stars acting today. Looking like a character from an Edward Gorey illustration, or someone who stepped out of a Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, she is regularly cast as an outsider of sorts, or in fractured fairy tales. All of which suits her just fine. "My great talent," says Ricci, somewhat shyly, "is understanding and translating complex characters for a film."
Her feature-film debut, however, was different in that way. She played the least complicated character opposite her wacky co-stars, Wynona Ryder and Cher, in 1990's Mermaids. But her standout roles, the ones that confirmed her angsty child superstar status, were the guillotine-wielding Wednesday in the Addams Family movies and her creepy portrayal of a precocious and sexually aggressive '70s teen in Ang Lee's The Ice Storm.
The transition to adult stardom is never easy. Like so many other child actors, she struggled with post-pubescent weight fluctuations and subsequent anorexia. And then there was the film that went famously wrong: Buffalo 66. Starring, written by and directed by the notorious Vincent Gallo, it was a difficult experience for Ricci. But one that seems to have been pivotal in her career, both because she convincingly played a sexualized woman and because it cured her of the desire to say "yes" to projects that just look like a train wreck waiting to happen. She prefers to not talk about the whole thing, though in previous interviews she's said about Gallo and the production, "I'd never encountered such insanity."
With her weight issues under control and a tough film behind her, she charged ahead, and within a year had successfully moved into young-adult roles, making memorable films like The Opposite of Sex (for which she received a Golden Globe nomination), Pecker and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
The one theme that emerges over the course of Ricci's career is that she seems to favor nutty female characters. "One of the things I love about women is that most women are crazy, and most interesting women are the crazy ladies," she says, including herself in the group. "And the crazy things you do as a crazy lady that you just can't help, and nobody finds it all as funny as another crazy lady...or a gay man."
After her turn doing slightly bonkers in The Opposite of Sex went so well, she went on to portray suicidally the depressed Elizabeth Wurtzel in Prozac Nation, then the prostitute girlfriend of the murderer Aileen Wuornos (played by Academy Award winner Charlize Theron) in Monster. But her starring role as Rae, a chained-up, half-naked nymphomaniac in Craig Brewer's Black Snake Moan, may be her most gripping to date.
The year that movie was released - 2007 - turned out to be another turning point for Ricci. Spending nearly her entire film time on-screen in a ripped stars-and-bars half shirt and a pair of skimpy underwear is not a role many actresses would agree to take on, let alone fight to get. But that's just what Ricci did. "Some people read a script and see nudity and sex and stop reading," she says. "I generally look for why it's happening and if it's a reason I can get behind, then it doesn't bother me."
Needless to say, she loved the script, calling it "a frightening example of what could happen when a woman is treated really poorly." The film was not as popular at the box office as she and her co-stars Justin Timberlake and Samuel L. Jackson would probably have liked, but the experience led to her latest real-life role, which she clearly feels passionate about: national spokesperson for RAINN, the r*pe Abuse Incest National Network. She even traveled to Capitol Hill in 2007 to lobby on behalf of RAINN, the nation's largest anti-sexual-assault organization, meeting with legislators and pressing them to pass bills designed to help solve r*pe cases and make communities safer.
2007 also marked the end of her longtime on again off again relationship with actor/director Adam Goldberg, perhaps best known for his stint as Matthew Perry's psycho roommate in several episodes of Friends. They met when he directed her in I Love Your Work, and they were an item until last year. She won't say what happened, because, she explains, "there are too many people involved."
A few other Christina Ricci crumbs left on the table: (Which may or may not be totally true.) She's a sp*z who runs into things once a day; loved Juno, "I cried like a baby"; thinks Viggo Mortensen should have won for an Oscar for fighting in the nude "with his junk flying everywhere"; runs her production company with her sister out of her house; think she's been around ghosts before, but now she' not so sure; feels boys should hide their p*rn; wants to be in a Western, but doesn't want to be dirty for three months; dislikes makeover shows; loves Mystery Diagnosis; wants to write a book called, "The Worst Advice I've Ever Gotten"; grew up partially in New York but never wants to live there again, and feels bad for saying that; wants to do action films and more drama; wants Oprah's main guy, Nate, to come see her house and tell her she did a good job.
As we wrap up lunch and head out for a little shopping at Ricci's favorite area store, Lake boutique on Rowena, the conversation moves back to her upcoming role as Trixie in Speed Racer. And out comes one of the first urgently effusive comments of the afternoon: "It was honestly the most fun I have had making any movie, pretty much ever."
What was so great? She loved her fellow cast mates, Matthew Fox, Emile Hirsch and Australian newcomer Kick Gurry ("He can take a punch"); eccentric writing/directing brother team of Larry and Andy Wachowski ("I was like their dress-up doll"); doing her own stunts ("I learned to pick up a gun in mid-cartwheel on the second take, I basically have no more ambition in life"). But her favorite thing? The outfits, of course. Based on the 1960s Japanime series created by Tatsuo Yoshida, the Wachowski brothers brought their futuristic/fetishistic aesthetic that they perfected making the Matrix series to this hyper-real live action film. "I had outfits for everything," explains Ricci as she points at the John Derian pieces on a display table in back, starting a parallel conversation about how she loves decoupage and has a bunch of his pieces at her house. Continuing with the description of her wild Speed Racer get ups, she says, "The helicopter pilot one was the best. I look like an action figure. It's a zip up leather sleeveless hot pant cat suit. And I wear it with patent leather stiletto boots."
Picking up a blue Dosa cashmere scarf, she says she's "clothes obsessed," a trait she got from her mother. Her father was a scream therapist (yes, that's a job), while he lived with the family, but he divorced her mother when Ricci was 13; he is not her favorite topic. She is, however, on good terms with her mother, a former Ford model. And Ricci gives her mother credit for making her watch Elsa Klensch every week on CNN. "So the second I had any money," she explains, "I was out buying and buying."
Though she regularly manages to choose high fashion that works on the red carpet, and loves to get all gussied up - "I love approval and validation, and if I can get those by dressing well, I am all over it" - Ricci has become less and less of the clothes horse. She takes the Dosa scarf off and puts it back in the pile as we glide around the store some more. She says she loves checks and stripes as she pulls out a nightshirt style dress, and blurts out, "Anytime I can go someplace and dress inappropriately I am so excited, because in L.A. you can't...they'll look at you funny."
When asked about her style, she just mentions one designer, Ben Cho. Which figures, because his slinky skirts and S&M-inspired dresses look great on Ricci's petite but curvy physique. Chic and sophisticated as she appears, there's still a little bit of the irrepressible nuttiness, and that sneaks out from time to time.
Walking her back to her car, I ask about the story behind the Forever 21 hoodie she loves: "You don't understand, half of my wardrobe is from Forever 21, which I call Forever 42 because no one in there is 21." She goes on to describe how the Pasadena branch, "might be heaven on earth," and that her trick is to buy the clothes and then have them either remade in a better fabric or just reinforced. Her tailor has asked why she spends so much money altering such inexpensive clothing, and she tells him: "Better than spending a ton of money on clothes you can't change." She looks over, with those big green eyes, completely sure she's making sense, and laughs.
http://hollywoodlife.net
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Yes thank you! I always loved her interviews
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