The actress was successful in the role of Wandinha Addams as a child and will be in Tim Burton’s new series about the girl; Ricci is also in Yellowjackets, Showtime’s hit series
LOS ANGELES – Christina Ricci knew there were great roles for her. She just had to wait to get old. Not old – just older. Big enough to no longer be judged by how sexy she was (or not). Big enough for the men in her room not to think that way.
It was the early 2000s. Ricci was 20 years old and already a full-fledged movie star. Just a few years ago, she had played Katrina Van Tasselblonde and rosy cheeked alongside Johnny Depp in Tim Burton’s adaptation of Sleepy Hollow (The Legend of the Headless Horseman). You introduced the Live Saturday night and has appeared on television talk shows and on the covers of major magazines. She was ambitious. He wanted to build a lasting career.
But this was also the age of romantic comedywhen the actresses like it Kate Hudson, Rachel McadamsJennifer Aniston and Jennifer Love Hewitt dominated the screen. Could Ricci try to be a little more like that? You know, female. Understandable. With an easy laugh. Friendly. The girl next door. Always sexy, of course, just a little less daring. None of that dark goth stuff. He was cute when she was younger, but come on, it’s time to grow up.
Some of his films at the same time – The price of success And The appointment, in particular – failed. It was okay to have one or two failures, but in this matter she had to be careful. Irrelevance was lurking around the corner.
This created insecurity and left her impressionable. Other people’s opinions on which scripts they should like and who they should be matter more than they should.
So she tested this new version of herself. She was nice, funny, normal. But she was told that her look was very specific. Was she really a protagonist, she wondered? Whenever she said “I love you” to the camera, she never seemed very convincing.
“When I look at myself and try to be scared,” she said, “I always think I’m a little too blase for the whole thing.”
Now 42, Ricci plays Misty Quigley, a terrifying nurse who owns a pet parrot named Caligula and knows how to get rid of a body. You are part of an exceptional cast yellow jacket (yellow jackets), from show timeavailable to fundamental +, which premiered last fall and quickly became one of the network’s most successful series. The show alternates between 1996 and the present, telling the story of a high school women’s soccer team whose plane, en route to a national tournament, crashes in the Canadian desert. The team survives for 19 months before being rescued, during which time they may be practicing cannibalism.
One of the reasons he loved this role is because he doesn’t have to pretend.
“With Misty,” he said with a smile, “I’ve never had to deal with any of those annoying emotions.”
Her character takes care of the team’s equipment, wears glasses and curly hair, and lacks the charisma of the most popular athletes around her. Ricci portrays her as a bizarre passive-aggressive whose sweet, honeyed voice is mixed with an unnerving amount of hostility. She is not the lover of America.
It can be difficult to keep up with Ricci’s work. She has never stopped acting, appearing in a movie or television series (or two or three) almost every year since she started as a child. She played a cursed heiress with a pig’s snout for a nose (Penelope), a privileged girl from a republic who falls in love with a disabled person (My pumpkin boyfriend), Zelda Fitzgerald (Z: The beginning of it all), writer Elizabeth Wurtzel (Prozac generation), a scammer (Miranda), an ax-wielding assassin (The Chronicles of Lizzie Borden), a yellow crayon (The hero of the city of colors) and a lawyer in Ally McBealamong others.
At the age of 10, Ricci was a celebrity. She made her film debut alongside Cher and Winona Ryder in My mother is a mermaid (nineteen ninety). A year later, she played Wandinha Addams The Addams family (the character will be reprized in an upcoming Netflix series; Ricci is part of the cast), in which she left an indelible impression as a precocious angelic-looking child who had a knack for sadism and spoke in a deadpan, deadpan tone. Despite her sociopathic tendencies, there was an innocence in Ricci’s character that he still loved her.
In real life, he was also highly intelligent and charming. The media raved about her confidence and her lack of interest in adult acting. By the age of 15, he had already made eight films, including blockbusters Gasparzinho: The phantom companion And Now and forever.
A few years later, he began appearing in independent and drama films: Ice storm, Buffalo 66 And The opposite of sex. In all of these films, she played less innocent characters, teenagers who tested the limits of the adults around them and grew up a little too free and too fast.
His body – visible to the world by judgment – had also changed. Now he had hips and breasts. At the age of 19, he underwent breast reduction surgery because he couldn’t stand the way people talked about his body. A few years earlier, she had developed an eating disorder. THE anxiety became a constant companion. Uneasy about the attention, he began to react through the media, with hyperbolic and provocative statements in interviews, including a joke about incest to a reporter who wanted to discuss the romance between brothers in The terrible infants, by Jean Cocteau, after Ricci expressed his appreciation for the French novel. This confrontational attitude, she believes, has probably cost her some roles.
Navigating his career over the next two decades was a challenge. Not that she was unlucky. Incredible opportunities have presented themselves. You have worked with directors such as Wes Craven, John Waters, Lana Wachowski and Woody Allen.
But the pressure has gotten too intense. So she stopped worrying about roles she got or didn’t get, she said. She began to emotionally disconnect from her work. It was difficult to feel any kind of passion. She is not complaining; after all, it is the life of an actor to hear “no”. However, rejection always hurts. To face it, Ricci told himself that none of this – this world, this setting, this role – was real.
“I used to say to myself over and over again, ‘You don’t exist,'” he said.
A turning point
If there is a passing line, a way to understand how Ricci went through an industry dominated by sometimes unimaginative men, from girls to adults, Ricci indicated his decision to take Monster – Murderous Desire in 2003. The year before, he’d read Patty Jenkins’ script and loved it. She had a meeting with Jenkins and Charlize Theron, who had signed up to play the lead, Aileen Wuornos.
The film tells the true story of Wuornos, a prostitute and serial killer in Florida who killed and robbed many of her clients. Jenkins and Theron wanted Ricci to play Selby Wall, Wuornos’ girlfriend. They explained that they weren’t trying to make an obscene film. It would be something grotesque and inflexible. Ricci wanted to say yes. But some people feared it was a mistake. It would look very bad. And that would be very unpleasant. There would be no going back.
He did it anyway. She was worried, of course. At the time, there was a set path to becoming a movie star and she wanted the guidance of someone who knew how to get there. monster deviated from it.
However, the film was a critical and commercial success. The relationship between Wall and Wuornos is so complicated and what happens is so terrible that it is impossible to look away. When Theron won the Best Actress Oscar in 2004, she thanked her co-star calling her a “star”, saying, “You really are the unknown heroine of this movie.” / TRANSLATION LÍVIA BUELONI GONÇALVES
Source: Terra
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