05-02-2008, 03:02 PM
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|  Christina Ricci back on track for Speed Racer
Found this today: Quote:
LOS ANGELES—When it comes to being a Hollywood screwup, timing is everything, according to Christina Ricci. The actor, who was a child star thanks to two Addams Family movies, says that she doesn’t look down on young actors who become deer in the camera lights. The 28-year-old says—in the Long Beach Convention Centre to publicize her latest film, Speed Racer, during the Toyota Long Beach Grand Prix—that had she been born a few years later, she, too, would be fodder for the tabloids.
“I think that I went through the same growing pains and partying in my late teens and early 20s, but there wasn’t the level of media scrutiny and paparazzi that there is now. I managed to do that without people taking pictures or judging me, but I am not interested in that life anymore. Had I had that level of media attention, I certainly would have been in just as much trouble as everyone else is these days. When you’re a teenager or you are in your early 20s, you do stupid things, and if people are documenting those things, it will lead to a whole lot of self-consciousness and confusion and that just leads to more trouble.”
Ricci survived the parties, but her career had a tough time. She had a string of hits before she left her teens, including Mermaids, The Addams Family, The Addams Family Values, Casper, and The Ice Storm, and she won acclaim for her performance in The Opposite of Sex. However, once she hit her 20s she mostly starred in movies that didn’t attract much of an audience. That list includes such duds as Pumpkin, Miranda, Prozac Nation, Bless the Child, The Man Who Cried, Anything Else, I Love Your Work, and All Over the Guy.
She has briefly moved into big budgets with the cartoonlike Speed Racer, in which she plays the girlfriend of a race-car driver, played by Emile Hirsch. (The film opens May 9.) Although the $100-million film is quite far removed from most of the films she has done, she was a fan of the Matrix trilogy and was delighted to be asked to work with that film’s directors, Andy and Larry Wachowski. Although she has a reputation for speaking her mind, she says she felt things would work better on this film if she just did what she was told.
“The only way to make sure you fit into what their vision is, is to do what they tell you to do. Once you let that control go, it allows you to just play, and it couldn’t have been a more playful set. We were all in these funny costumes, and the cast had such a great time and loved each other so much and our confidence in them freed us up to commit to this style of acting and the kind of dialogue that we had to deliver. I don’t know if we would have done it as easily if we were busy trying to control things.”
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