Evan Rachel Wood

[wings]

^is that movie out already?

 

[skinny_boho]

^OMG I want the sunglasses she has in the 3rd pic!

 

[june gloom]

can't wait to see running with scissors, the outfits look insane.

 

[style_savy]

Evan Rachel Wood @ Running With Scissors premiere (oct. 10, 2006)
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[kochie332]

Running With Scissors Premiere

Evan Rachel Wood looks elegant in a simple pencil dress.

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[TheGlassAngel]

Very elegant, love the curles. Lindsay, please take notes

 

[june gloom]

i love her style lately, with the curls and the red lipstick. haha, i can think of a few people who can take notes.

 

[wh i te x ro se]

Her hair in the last pic in 144 is creeping me out. Some papp obviously photoshopped her hair way too much because it looks sickly bleached. The other pics look great though, she's so under rated.

 

[sdkme]

Thanks for the new photos! She looks lovely

 

[june gloom]

perhaps she is doing the phantasmagoria film after all? i think it would be really exciting to see her work with lily cole. photo from evanrachelwood.net

 

[june gloom]

premiere magazine scan (evanrachelwood.net)

 

[elkos]

i rewatched thirteen last night, reaffirming my love for evan rachel wood! i can't wait to see running with scissors.

 

[DosViolines]

nytimes.com

October 22, 2006
Evan on Earth

By LYNN HIRSCHBERG

You just turned 19, and you are about to appear in your 10th film, “Running With Scissors,” based on the Augusten Burroughs memoir about his extreme childhood. You play his sort-of sister, a sexually precocious teenager who spends nearly all her time in short shorts and glitter. Was it easy to get into character when you put on the hot pants?

That costume was so horrifying! But it did help to define the character — I’d put on the clothes and just go crazy. They crimped my hair and got out the platform sandals, and I’d say, “What color eye shadow will I be wearing today?” I had peacock eyes. I left the makeup on even after I left the set. People would stare.

You started acting as a child. You almost got a lead role in “Interview With a Vampire” when you were only 7.

Back then, that audition seemed like a normal thing to me. They dressed me up, and Tom Cruise was there. I was always big into movies — Jodie Foster has always been my favorite actress. In “Running With Scissors,” we kind of modeled my character’s appearance on Jodie Foster’s in “Taxi Driver.”

On the television show “Once and Again,” you played a teenager struggling with anorexia. Was that difficult?

It broke my heart when they told me that my character had an eating disorder. I was really insecure because I was so skinny. I never had an eating disorder, but I was 13 and a late bloomer. Back then, I wanted to wear bright colors and makeup, but the producers felt that was wrong for the character. I hated all of my wardrobe. Those were really awkward years. But I saw the point: it was important to show a person like that on TV.

And you had a love scene with Mischa Barton.

Yes — we kissed. She was nice. It’s funny, when I was a kid, I would audition for roles, and I’d see the same people all the time. It’s like being in the same class at school. I’d make friends with girls, and then their moms would tell them never to talk to me, that it would hurt their sense of competition. That was a little hard.

You never really went for the typical teen parts. You were always interested in edgier films like “Thirteen,” in which you played a girl in the throes of adult temptation, or “Across the Universe,” a musical.

There was a high degree of difficulty in that film. We shot for four months. Julie Taymor [the director of the musical] conceived the movie as a history of the 60’s told through the songs of the Beatles. I sing nine Beatles songs, and I have four solos. Julie didn’t want anyone to sound too perfect or rehearsed, and she later told me that I had developed some bad habits. The record I know best is “Jagged Little Pill” by Alanis Morissette, and I had copied her vibrato. Julie would say: “You’re doing Alanis again. Please stop.”

Do you get dressed up when you’re not working?

I don’t like the idea of being consistently glamorous, but I’ve become more interested in fashion recently. For some actresses, what they wear to a premiere is more important than their work. That’s not me. When I think about the red carpet and all of that, I try to imagine myself as another character. I look at a dress and think, Oh, that’s like Audrey Hepburn in “Sabrina,” or Grace Kelly wore something like that, and then I can imagine who I will be.

[SIZE=-1]Evan Rachel Wood in an Alexander McQueen tulle dress. To order at Alexander mcQueen, 417 West 14th Street. To get this look: brush Estée Lauder’s pure color eye shadow in pumpkin under and above the eye from lid to brow, followed by tender blush in peach nuance on the cheeks. Dab the lips with Lauder’s pure color in rubellite.

Fashion editor: Tiina Laakkonen. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]Supersaturated shades take on a painterly feel when applied with fingers or a big, fluffy brush. For this look, use a pale base like Anna Sui liquid foundation; on the eyes, Sui’s purple eye color No. 303; on the cheeks, orangy color No. 600; and finish with a dab of gloss lipstick No. 203, which is a purple. Conroy & Wilcox earrings. Fred Leighton Collar necklace. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]Botticelli meets punk with eyes that are fingerpainted in a blue eye shadow like Cle de Peau eye color quad No. 4, paired with a beige lipstick like Cle de Peau’s No. 1. Cle de Peau’s silky cream foundation is sufficiently pale. Fred Leighton earrings.

Fashion assistant: Britt Marie Kittelsen. Hair by Dai Michishita for Bumble and Bumble. Makeup by Fulvia Farolfi for Chanel. Manicure and pedicure by Sofia Shusterov for M.A.C. Pro at Judy Casey inc. [/SIZE]

 

[june gloom]

that last picture is incredible, thank you so much for these! i haven't seen them before. here are the photos & article from details mag, straight off the website. i love her with red hair and this article just makes me adore her more.

The story goes like this. They were deep into the filming of Running With Scissors, Sony Pictures’ new movie about a dysfunctional family starring 19-year-old Evan Rachel Wood as the hard-bitten younger sister, Natalie. During one crucial scene, in which Natalie’s stony self-possession is poked and prodded to the point of emotional collapse, director Ryan Murphy told Wood that he wanted to see her cry in the second take. That’s when Wood pulled a move that left the entire crew speechless.
“She said something like ‘Which eye do you want the tear to come out of?’” Murphy recalls, still in a state of disbelief. “I thought she was kidding. And then when I realized she wasn’t, I was like, Holy sh*t! Did that just happen? It was weird—it was like Zen-master stuff.”

But that’s the kind of thing Hollywood directors have come to expect from Wood, who’s been acting almost as long as she’s been able to speak—and who admits that she sometimes confuses the screen with real life. She was a regular on ABC’s Emmy–winning series Once and Again. She stormed the Sundance Film Festival in 2003 with her complex performance in Thirteen (filmed when she was only 14 herself), outshone Tommy Lee Jones in The Missing, gave a nuanced interpretation of a vengeful Lolita in Pretty Persuasion, jarred critics in The Upside of Anger, and had matured enough to play Edward Norton’s muse in last year’s Down in the Valley—all before she’s reached the legal drinking age. Parts get handed to her. And these are not dumb-pretty-girl parts. These are roles for strong-willed, dark—at times, even sinister—characters. They’ve earned her praise like “the next Meryl Streep.”

Looking at her in late-morning light filtering through the windows of Manhattan’s Soho Grand hotel, though—where she’s hunched over on a big velvet couch in the mezzanine, wearing ripped jeans and a big jade fishhook necklace—you’d swear she was just some hotel guest’s daughter. Her hair is only a touch redder, her skin a shade paler, and her frame a few pounds wispier than Typical American Girl. For someone accustomed to dark characters, she seems delicate and a little unsure of herself. It is disorienting, somehow, to find Hollywood’s youngest deity looking so vulnerable.

“I used to not even be able to order pizza on the phone because I was just so shy,” Wood says, her porcelain fingers wrapped around a cup of green tea. “I think that’s why so much comes out onscreen, because that’s my time to let go in a safe place. When you’re doing that, it’s all written down on paper and it’s total fiction.”

Onscreen roles aside, it’s Wood’s life offscreen that sometimes seems a total fiction—apart from dating Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot), the Hollywood-starlet fantasy she’s living out is decidedly more Silver Lake hipster than red-carpet socialite. She flies across the country just to catch a Radiohead show. She karaokes with Eddie Izzard. She has no interest in the aristocretin antics of the Hilton/Lohan set. “The clubs in L.A. usually just make me want to vomit,” she says—a world-weary comment from someone who’s young enough to regard the party scene as an exotic mystery.

“She’s got a maturity beyond her years,” says Annette Bening, who costars with Wood and Gwyneth Paltrow in Running With Scissors. “She’s so much younger than I was when she started acting, so our trajectories are so different. I was going to community college when I was 20.”

That Wood grew up so fast has a lot to do with her breakthrough role as Tracy, the girl who slowly destroys herself in the attempt to win her best friend’s approval in Thirteen—a role that ended up dovetailing into her own adolescent trials. At 9, after the divorce of her parents (both actors), she moved with her mom from Raleigh, North Carolina, to Hollywood. At first, Wood still talked more like you’d expect the popular girl in middle school to talk—about her million friends, about getting her nails done. But something was stirring underneath. “Lots of teenage angst,” Wood says. She was tired of being the popular girl. She looked around and realized she had nothing in common with the mean-girl mall-comber cliques—she was different: “I felt like there was so much going on and I was in so much pain and nobody got it and I was just screaming for somebody out there to tell me that I wasn’t weird.”

So when shooting began for Thirteen, she channeled it all into Tracy. “We did one take and I totally blacked out,” she says. “All I remember is starting the scene, and then the next thing I know, Catherine [Hardwicke, the director] just came and lifted me off the floor and took me in the other room and laid me on the bed.” It took her months to come down from the part. When it was over, Wood kept buying “Tracy” things—clothes that her character would wear.

But now she’s buying Evan things again—her first home among them. “I’m such a crazy perfectionist, I probably stood in Linens ’n Things looking at the square plates or the round plates for, like, 10 minutes, going, “God, this is a big decision. These are my first plates! What am I going to get? What do I do?!”

And though she slept on the floor the first few nights and had to learn hard little realities—drawers, it turns out, do not come with can openers—you get the feeling that the skinny girl picking at the threads around the holes in her jeans can handle it, just as she’s handling an industry that has already elevated her to imminent-Oscar status. Hell, she may even work up the nerve to order a pizza.

 

[elkos]

wow she looks amazing in all those pics!! and the articles are so interesting! thank you both!

 

[julesrules815]

ooh i love her!!! and im glad she is still dating Jamie Bell

 

[musegirl]

she's just lovely.

 

[TheGlassAngel]

She has awesome legs in that Miu Miu dress

 

[kochie332]

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10th Annual Hollywood Awards - Arrivals

 

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