Winona Ryder: It’s hard to stay relevant

OHMYGOSSIP — Winona Ryder finds it hard to stay relevant. The actress says the industry has changed so much that you have to keep reminding people that you’re still working!

“It used to be that you commit to something and then basically you spend your year doing that,” she says in the new issue of V Magazine.

“Now there’s a constant conversation of how you have to keep working in order to remind people that you’re around,” she said.

“You have to work to be relevant. If you don’t then people will forget and the studios won’t want you because they won’t remember the last thing you did that made money.

“It’s all about knowing when to listen to that conversation and — without sounding really hokey — when to tune it out and follow your heart. I was fired from a movie because I did Heathers!

“I was cast in a movie and the director saw an advance screening and was offended by it and fired me. It wasn’t until years later that it became more appreciated.

“I was recently asked about Kristen Stewart and Jennifer Lawrence. In answering I was very genuine, and I did say I thought they were both incredibly talented. But I mentioned something about their privacy and how my heart goes out to them, and the feedback I got was like, ‘How dare she!’ It’s just another example of something being taken out of context, the interpretation was that I pitied them or something.

“I guess people decide to take things a certain way for headlines or Internet hits. But these are great actresses! I don’t know what they think of me. I would never give advice because I would feel very presumptuous. Their success is very different than mine was, and it’s a different time.”

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