To deal with the baggage that comes attached to any Winona Ryder film, back in her early career days she was so big a marquee name it would actually cost some of the actors they truly wanted for those same gig.
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| Winona Ryder at the 2024 Venice Film Festival. Andreas Rentz/Getty |
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Addressing Ryder's thoughts on her career, the actor said she "hit a wall in terms of [stars] being driven by Hollywood to do mainstream blockbusters"" that didn't connect with what she was looking for. She had the sense that she was being branded as unsuited for making a certain type of movie. And those she tried to make, — her growing fame got in the way.
The fixation on her personal life, and love life specifically: “It was hard to convince someone not listen to the noise around me. I saw it in their eyes. She tells the publication: “I got grounded for one particular instance, and I lost a lot of parts because of that.
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Ryder landed her first significant role in 1988, as Lydia Deetz in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice with Michael Keaton and Catherine O'Hara. Even that did not convince her high school classmates, however; the film was a success.
“… and I remember thinking it was going to, like change my status, and it made worse,” she recalled. They were like, '"You're a bi*ch! You’re a freak!’ It amplified it. I was just playing, I am actually in a movie! ”
Following this, Macedo discreetly stepped out of the acting limelight for most parts through the early 2000s competing in lower profile projects. And then she re-entered the zeitgeist like a bat out of hell/back to better-than-ever — when landed the role of Joyce Byers in Stranger Things.
Original star Jessica Walter was the draw for what is now a hit Netflix series, filming its fifth and final season in Atlanta. Speaking with Esquire for its profile, the Heathers star admitted she “knows that and Im not delusional” about why whe was hired for Stranger Things (where it all began), because thats when she got her career started.
They started filming the Emmy-nominated series 10 years ago, Kovar adds: I've gone from being "the youngest person on set to [being] the oldest." “I never thought. I was just like, ‘Ew, I do not want to be doing this when I am fifty! And that is insane to have happen when really I am at an age now where much of my life HAS happened! I love the boys to death, I LOVE SADIE AND MAYA. It’s been really wonderful.”
She further recalled that a little of her woman in the 80s experience into play. “Her flaws — I kind of went to battle for those,” Ryder said. I never set out to be supermom. Photo: Columbia Pictures"I wanted her to be one of those women I saw [in 70s/80s era movies] that was really just doing the best they can."
