(12 Jul 2016) WINONA RYDER MAKES TV-SERIES DEBUT WITH NETFLIX THRILLER 'STRANGER THINGS'
Like so many actors, it wasn't all that long ago that Winona Ryder was solely a movie star.
She's made a few TV movies, guest appearances on series and, last year, did a four-episode arc on HBO's "Show Me a Hero," but new Netflix thriller "Stranger Things" marks her first time as a TV-series regular.
The series, from creators Ross and Matt Duffer ("Wayward Pines") is a bit '80s-thriller homage with a slightly more contemporary sensibility.
Ryder plays the mother of a missing boy whose disappearance could involve everything from government experiments, supernatural beings, to a mysterious little girl.
Imagine Spielbergian suburbia meeting "The X-Files" and you're on the way, but by no means all the way.
"It was a genre I never had done," said Ryder, speaking on the arrivals line at the show's Los Angeles premiere Monday (11 JULY 2016). "And it was a role that I had never done. And it was nice that I was able to play my own age, because I'm 44. And it's important for an actress to just not be repeating yourself all the time. And there's not, you know, it's become as you get older, you're not going to put a cape on and get thrown out a window, with me. Because I wouldn't survive that. So, it's either that. Or you find things like this, or, you know -- not that ... There's nothing wrong with those movies. They're fun. But, for me, this was a great sort of opportunity."
The "Stranger Things" has a set crammed with kids, which must have felt familiar to Ryder, herself a former child actor who caught the eye of some critics in her debut film, "Lucas" (1986). Two years later, she starred in her first blockbuster, "Beetlejuice" (1988).
"Maybe I sort of inadvertently gave some (of her "Stranger Things" co-stars) advice," Ryder recalled. "But they all seemed so well adjusted and, you know, clearly just loving the acting, loving school, because they were going to school every day. So, they were on set every day, in school. And just, it was just sort of remarkable. I'd never been around a group of kids like that, that were so into both the academic and the creative. It was really impressive."
Early reviews for "Stranger Things" have been generally good to great, with many reviewing ranking it aside the new second season of "Mr. Robot" as summer's must-see TV. So, a second-season order from Netflix seems inevitable.
But Ryder said, she hasn't heard a word.
"Well, I keep waiting to hear, because they won't officially say yet," she explained. "So, I'm hoping. We're just waiting. They literally won't tell us. But they'll be like ... (Ryder winked, as if Netflix privately confirmed a second season.) But that doesn't mean anything. I don't know. It's my first venture into this world. So, I really don't know."
"Stranger Things" debut 15 July on Netflix.
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