Christina Ricci lightens up a bit in Penelope
March 27th, 2008 admin Posted in News |
Christina Ricci can be forgiven a little trepidation for wondering when her latest movie, the adult fairy tale Penelope, would hit theatres. It was at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival. It was 20 minutes longer there.
And the longer a Ricci movie takes to hit the screen, the more you have to wonder if she sweating it with an “Oh, no, here we go again.”
There was Prozac Nation (2001), which wasn’t even released. And The Gathering, Miranda, Cursed, Pumpkin and most recently, Home of the Brave, nearly a new millennium’s worth of theatrical no-shows or nearly no-shows.
“I have had films I’ve made that didn’t come out at all,” she says, philosophical beyond her just-turned 28 years. “And usually that’s a good thing. They’re doing me a favour.”
It’s a perspective that comes from being well-known in the business since Mermaids (1990), a “name” since The Opposite of Sex (1998).
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