Christina Ricci Hearts Blockbusters
May 7, 2008
Turns out Christina Ricci, who has become a darling of independent film fans, isn’t so ‘indie’ after all.
The actress, who gained fame as a child actor in “Mermaids” and “The Addams Family,” says people have her all wrong if they think she intentionally shied away from blockbuster Hollywood flicks in her adult years. Her newest film, Friday’s big-budget “Speed Racer,” is Ricci’s proof.
“I wanted to do big movies for a long time but I haven’t necessarily been given the opportunity,” she told Reuters. “I just haven’t gotten those kinds of parts.”
Leaving films like “Casper” behind, Ricci took on increasingly more complex roles as a teenager in human dramas such as director Ang Lee’s “The Ice Storm” (1997) and as a young adult in “The Laramie Project,” (2002) which dealt with the hate crime murder of a young gay man, Matthew Shepard.
- From Reuters
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