Christina Ricci Reveals How The Industry Has Changed Since She Started Acting, Shares One Thing She’s ‘Argued About’ Her Entire Career
etcanada.comChristina Ricci has seen numerous changes within the acting industry over the years. The actress, who shot to fame as Wednesday Addams in the 1991 movie “The Addams Family”, tells Deadline how things have changed since she got her first roles: “For me?
Well, when I started, I was a child and just happy to be in that environment and away from home and working. “It was exciting and fun, so all I focused on was being really well behaved so that I would get more jobs.
But now that I’m past my difficult 20s, and all of the distraction that goes on in that time, I feel like I can really look at my work from a creative, artistic, intellectual standpoint, with all the calm that comes with age. “It’s really lovely for that to be what I drown myself in and focus on, and it allows me to shut out all the other kind of stuff about being an actress that is superfluous.” READ MORE: Christina Ricci Reveals Johnny Depp Explained Homosexuality To Her As A Child Ricci addressed her transition from child actor into more mature acting roles, saying, “Actually, I didn’t have a hard time, because, just as I became 17, independent film became a huge thing and for the first time, filmmakers wanted to cast actual teenagers to play teenagers. “The kind of material was so meaty and gritty.
That really helped me to not struggle in my transition to doing adult films — but, again, it’s just a time-and-place kind of thing.
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