14 DAY TRIAL // Hollywood is a very harsh working environment because there’s always a lot of pressure on both men and women to look a certain way. Winona Ryder can attest to that, telling Interview Magazine that showbiz tolerates no sign of the passing of time.
She’s not alone in saying that, as we also noted on several past occasions: in an industry that relies so heavily on image, women (and men too, but to a lesser extent) are constantly told how much work they need to have done to look camera-ready.
It has happened to Winona and will probably happen again, she says but, for the record, she hasn’t had any work done.
“It’s funny, because I went straight from the Interview shoot to this premiere, and I still had on all the makeup, and my friend told me that some people were literally saying that I’d had work done – which, by the way, I’ve found is normal hygiene now on sets,” the actress tells the mag.
“I’m not trying to knock it, but, you know, I have a little bit of traffic now on my forehead – which I’m like very proud of actually – and it’s interesting how people just instinctively are like, ‘Oh, maybe you should get something done for that.’ And it’s like, ‘Really?’,” she adds.
Then again, Ryder must be accustomed to constantly being told that she’s not enough of that, or needs more of this.
Speaking of aging in Hollywood, Ryder points out the obvious: “You can’t please everyone.”
“When you start out as a kid and then you have these great roles early on and even into your twenties, you’re doing movies like Reality Bites, people want you to stay the same, but then they kind of don’t. People don’t want you to get older, but then it’s like, ‘Why do you look so young?’” she says.
The full interview is available here.