[andrew r]

Well there weren't any new ones. I do have this today...

Christina Ricci interview
Christina Ricci in 'Black Snake Moan'
At 27, Christina Ricci is a veteran of the film business. She started out as a child actor with films like ‘Mermaids’ (1990) and ‘The Addams Family’ (1991) before developing a knack for playing mouthy teenagers and vulnerable women in films like ‘Buffalo 66’ (1998), ‘The Opposite of Sex’ (1998) and ‘Monster’ (2003). She bares all in Craig Brewer’s ‘Black Snake Moan’ as Rae, a wild young woman in the deep south who treats her body with zero respect until she meets Lazarus (Samuel L Jackson), an ageing divorcee who decides to teach her a lesson by chaining her to a radiator in his front-room.

Your character in ‘Black Snake Moan’ is a right old mess.
Yeah, she’s got a few problems. A few issues. She’s a girl suffering from post-traumatic stress from a childhood full of rape and abuse. But because her abuse when she was a child was sexual, then she looks to sexually abuse herself. It’s a way that a lot of victims have of stopping it from happening again: they do it to themselves. They’re the ones in control, degrading themselves, and abusing themselves, and no one else can have that power over them again.

That’s usually what happens to kids who go through that, unless they get help. She has these anxiety attacks. and usually if someone’s anxiety attacks are not treated then they will start drinking or cutting themselves – or something else that’s self-abusive....

Link:http://www.timeout.com/film/features/2921.html