‘I’d love to go through life believing this delusion that I still look 27. It wouldn’t harm anyone!’ … Christina Ricci.‘I’d love to go through life believing this delusion that I still look 27. It wouldn’t harm anyone!’ … Christina Ricci.hen I was a teenager and first going to gigs, I was told an unwritten rule: never wear the T-shirt of the act you’re going to see. So, I thought long and hard about whether to wear my T-shirt of to my interview with Christina Ricci.
Throughout this time she was living in the maelstrom of 90s celebrity culture – a brutal period for young stars – providing an alternative to the perky, peppy ideal. Are roles better for women these days? Definitely, she says, though there is still “internalised misogyny” to deal with. She points to the language women use for each other, such as the increasingly common use of “bitch”. “When people say to me, ‘Oh what’s up, B?’ I will say, ‘Unless you’re going to rape me or beat me, please don’t call me a bitch.’”
“People write things like: ‘Christina talks about the trauma of fame,’” she says, sounding frustrated. “It’s like, ‘No!’ When I am talking about childhood trauma, I am not talking about the trauma of fame.”I want to ask Ricci more about the trauma she is alluding to, to find out if it relates to her oeuvre.
Well my idea of deviant behaviour is putting pineapple on pizza. Disgraceful!