Winona Ryder didn’t get a part in 1993’s “Fearless” — nor did she get to smooch Jeff Bridges during her audition.
that Bridges , 74, refused to lock lips with the “Stranger Things” star when they were auditioning for the 1993 drama film “Fearless.”“Jeff Bridges , who I love, wouldn’t kiss me because I was, like, too young,” Ryder said on the podcast episode released Monday.
“At the end of the scene he was supposed to kiss me and I was like…” Ryder continued, mimicking herself preparing to smooch Bridges.Fans slam ABC for making the Bachelorette watch her propose to ex-fiancé on live TV after he dumped and 'ghosted' her“And he, like, he kissed my forehead,” she recalled. “He’s like, ‘You’re, like, my daughter’s age.’ And I was like, ‘No!’ “Bridges was 43 when he starred in “Fearless.” Ryder, who was 21 at the time, did not land a role in the film. The movie directed by Peter Weir and based on a novel written by Rafael Yglesias follows a man named Max who experiences radical changes to his personality after surviving a plane crash.She recalled that the studio “had a problem” with her and Bridges’ “interracial relationship” in the movie and she feared she wouldn’t get the role — until Bridges went “to bat” for her.“Jeff wanted me to play the part. Well, you never hear that,” Perez said. “You never hear an actor of his caliber going to bat for someone who still is fairly kind of new and regulated only to certain type of parts. “He just gave me so much confidence,” she added about Bridges. “I went in, again, and they offered me the part.”“I feel like that was sort of my graduation too, because when you’re a teen actor and a kid, you’re always hearing about the transition into adult roles and how it’s impossible,” she said about the Martin Scorsese-directed film on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast.“And then you’re either a daughter — or you’re too young to be the D.A. or even the rookie cop,” Ryder noted, adding, “I feel like ‘Age of Innocence’ really was huge.” Another one of Ryder’s iconic movies from early in her career was “Beetlejuice.” She’s reprising her role as Lydia Deetz inThese pollsters were right in 2016 and 2020 -- and their latest polls spell disaster for this candidate Ben Affleck’s cousin calls herself the new ‘Jenny from the block’ amid actor’s divorce from Jennifer LopezGetty Images for CAA
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