Winona Ryder Talks ‘Stranger Things’, Her Breakup From Johnny Depp In The ’90s & More

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Winona Ryder has a lot of wisdom to share. The “Stranger Things” star is on the new cover of Harper’s Bazaar, and in the issue she talks about the advice she’s given her young co-stars on the show. “I want the kids to understand, this does not happen,” she says of the show’s popular success. “This is really unusual.

And I’m always telling them, ‘The work is the reward!’ Because when I was that age, it was so hard to enjoy the fruits of my labour.” READ MORE: Winona Ryder Is On A Terrifying Search For Her Missing Boyfriend In ‘Gone In The Night’ Trailer That’s not the only advice Ryder gives on the show, as her co-star David Harbour notes, referencing her pointing out small historical errors in the ’80s-set series to creators Matt and Ross Duffer. “She’d tell them, ‘This song actually came out in ’85, and you have it in ’83,'” Harbour says. “She knew all of these minute, tiny details they didn’t even know, and they had to change things in the script based on that.” Also in the interview, Ryder opens up about being in the public eye, particularly in the wake of her breakup in the ’90s from boyfriend Johnny Depp, who altered his “Winona Forever” tattoo to read “Wino Forever”. “That was my ‘Girl, Interrupted’ real life,” the actress says, referring to her 1999 drama, co-starring Angelina Jolie. “I remember, I was playing this character who ends up getting tortured in a Chilean prison [in the 1994 drama ‘The House of the Spirits’],” Ryder recalls, crediting “an incredible therapist” for encouraging her to imagine being gentle to a younger version of herself. “I would look at these fake bruises and cuts on my face [from the shoot], and I would struggle to see myself as this little girl. ‘Would you be treating this girl