Winona Ryder : What was her official excuse?

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The real question is what is YOUR excuse? (for being an a$$hole)

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Winona Ryders career stopped for years when she was convicted for shoplifting in 2001. She had already made a lot of enemies in Hollywood by behaving extremely badly to personal assistants very publicly, and for behaving badly on sets; she had been overworked for years and also suffered from bipolar disorder, and had not figured out how to manage it and was thus a complete monster. People were glad to see her convicted of the shoplifting charge, and the fact that she had a string of failures (most spectacularly Autumn in new York) meant that her career stopped for years. She returned to acting in 2005, but never got more than cameos or girlfriend roles until the last year, when she attracted excellent critical notice for Experimenter. That, plus her status as a Gen X icon, led to her big comeback this year in Stranger Things; though she got wildly divergent reviews for her role in that miniseries, she garnered nominations from both the Gol5b4den Globes and the Screen Actors Guild for that show, and theres no denying now shes back.

Shes an odd film actress of the Natalie Wood sort: like Wood, she was a very naturally talented child actor, but never studied how to become a real adult actress (the way Jodie Foster, another talented child actress, did formally after Yale), and so she grew up to rely too much on cheap mannerisms. But, like Wood, she also grew up to be beautiful, and became a generational icon. People seem to love seeing her come back despite her grave limitations as an actress.

Anonymous

reply 109 11 hours ago

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"I want to know why her mug shot was never publically released."

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Some people are just a number.