Actress Christina Ricci has an unusual phobia

The Speed Racer star, 30, admits she’s scared of plants because the soil makes her feel “dirty”. “They are dirty! If I have to touch one, then it freaks me out,” she said.

”Honestly, I can’t go near them.”

Ricci also admits she’s not much of a chef.

“I can cook about two things. I can boil hot water for the only pasta I can make,” she said.

“I blame my career, actors work crazy schedules and we are away so often. I just don’t have the time to learn how to make stuff. But I need to, when you get back home after shooting there is always a great desire to create some kind of normalcy.”

Ricci recently insisted she’s nothing like the shy characters she portrays on the big screen.

“While on film I can be very quiet and be this one kind of intensity; in real life I tend to be very big,” she said.

“I’m always the loudest one. I’m always the one in the make-up trailer who’s making a fool of themselves… or getting in trouble for this or that or the other. So I was like, ‘I’d like to bring some of that more into my acting.’ And just as I was starting to do that, the play came along.”

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