Winona Ryder relationship is one of the issues that still haunt her today...
When thinking about Winona Ryder, it is inevitable not to associate her with the characters she starred in in the nineties, since she was one of the actresses who best captured the personality of generation X, represented by cynicism, idealism and dreams. Her relationship with Johnny Depp is another of the issues that still haunt her today, becoming one of the most beloved couples in Hollywood, and it is only now that the actress recognizes the difficult stage she went through after the breakup.
In an interview with Harper's Bazaar that, more than an interview, seemed more like an intimate conversation, the actor and Ryder's co-star in Stranger Things, David Harbor, spoke about how fascinating it has been for him to know the inner world of Ryder. Winona, of great depth, from the day they met and sat down to talk about the Duffer brothers' series, was able to glimpse that the actress is a whole world apart, built with foundations of fantasy, melancholy and nostalgia.
These same elements were what, since she was a little girl, motivated her to dedicate herself to cinema - her great passion - and not only as the interpreter par excellence of characters with complex psychology, reluctant to adhere to what should be thought. and feel conventionally, but to appreciate the reality behind the focus, as if the colors of existence were not chromatic, as if everything that surrounds us turned black and white in front of our eyes. Unexpectedly, Winona did not become a film director, as she originally dreamed of, but rather she dedicated herself to acting.
After her first appearance in her films, in Lucas (1986), her participation in renowned films began to decline, reaching its highest point in the 1990s. Ryder, who had barely come of age, had already embodied the lives of multiple women, but in real life, she embodied only one, herself, who experienced the unpleasantness and pleasures of first love – or the one who feels like the first. - when he met Johnny Depp, another of the actors who were most sought after by film directors and producers of the time.
Winona fell in love and began a love story with Depp, which led them to get engaged just five months after meeting each other and to establish a relationship that lasted the next four years, but just as she savored the fullness of coincidence and reciprocity. Along with the actor, the bitterness he experienced after their separation was proportional. That's how she recognized it, for this same magazine; It is not easy to have your name tattooed "forever" and then your name be replaced by the word "wine" -
Although the actress did not explicitly say "being away from Johnny was difficult," Ryder acknowledged that everything that came for her, after her breakup, was covered with a black cloud that she had to learn to deal with for a long time. "That was my 'innocence, interrupted' in real life," she said, referring to the film she starred in in 1999, where she is admitted to a psychiatric clinic, when her character overdoses from mixing alcohol and drugs.
During the transition she was experiencing, Winona had a couple of allies who extended her support, experienced women who understood Ryder's vulnerability, to the versions of her from her youth, when everything seemed to lack certainty and meaning. . Michelle Pfeiffer, with whom she shared a cast in The Age of Innocence (1993), told her that everything would pass, that it was a matter of time to recover from the breakup, but the young actress could not understand it at that moment, she recognized that she was hurting herself. , who did not take care of himself as he should, but did not know how to do it.
"He never talked about this," Ryder said. "There's a part of me that's very private. I have such, like, a place in my heart for those days. But for someone younger who grew up with social media, it's hard to describe."
It was then when the actress decided to take a break: "I retired," she recalled, because in the following years she was arrested, caused by a theft that she committed in a clothing store. Ryder knew that she had enough of public life, the producers stopped looking for her and she also stopped knocking on doors, which seemed to her to be a mutual break between the parties. "I think it was a very mutual breakup."
