Director: Catherine Orchard
Director of Photography: Frances Chen
Editor: Michael Suyeda
Producer: Gabriela Marie Safa
Associate Producer: Lea Donenberg
Gaffer: Julia Gowesky
Assistant Camera: Jack Kelly
Audio: Lily van Leeuwen
Production Assistant: Quinton Johnson
Production Coordinators: Ava Kashar, Tanía Jones
Production Manager: Natasha Soto-Albors
Line Producer: Romeeka Powell
Senior Director, Production Management: Jessica Schier
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
Post Production Coordinator: Scout Alter
Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Associate Director, Post Production: Nicholas Ascanio
Director, Video Talent: Lauren Mendoza
Director, Content Production: Rahel Gebreyes
Senior Director, Programming: Linda Gittleson
VP, Video Programming: Thespena Guatieri
Filmed on Location: Fouquet’s New York
Director of Photography: Frances Chen
Editor: Michael Suyeda
Producer: Gabriela Marie Safa
Associate Producer: Lea Donenberg
Gaffer: Julia Gowesky
Assistant Camera: Jack Kelly
Audio: Lily van Leeuwen
Production Assistant: Quinton Johnson
Production Coordinators: Ava Kashar, Tanía Jones
Production Manager: Natasha Soto-Albors
Line Producer: Romeeka Powell
Senior Director, Production Management: Jessica Schier
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
Post Production Coordinator: Scout Alter
Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Associate Director, Post Production: Nicholas Ascanio
Director, Video Talent: Lauren Mendoza
Director, Content Production: Rahel Gebreyes
Senior Director, Programming: Linda Gittleson
VP, Video Programming: Thespena Guatieri
Filmed on Location: Fouquet’s New York
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00:00I'm Winona Ryder, and this is my life in looks.
00:04♪♪
00:09This picture was taken at one of my very early auditions.
00:14I didn't get the part, partially, I think,
00:17because of my look.
00:19A lot of people mistook me for a boy.
00:22I felt like, to be an ingenue or if I did have the look,
00:29it would have been not really me.
00:32So I was kind of oddly, perfectly happy
00:35being more of a character actor.
00:40But I remember taking a trip to L.A.
00:42and back then, you had to sort of,
00:45if you didn't have any credit,
00:48you had to come up with, like, a monologue to do.
00:52And I sort of put the Salinger novella of Franny,
01:00Franny and Zoey, I adapted it into a long monologue.
01:04Sort of obsessed with the Glass family to this day.
01:10Ah, Beetlejuice.
01:12I credit Tim and this movie with really helping
01:17sort of launch my career.
01:19I completely identified with it.
01:22They didn't have to do much to me
01:24to make me look the way that I did.
01:26I recently found a picture of me and my brother
01:29and my friend from a few months before I auditioned.
01:34And I looked very much the same as Lydia.
01:38I was super pale and I had dyed my hair L'Oreal blue-black.
01:43I mean, they were such great lines.
01:46My whole life is a dark room, one big dark room.
01:50Obviously, the wardrobe was incredible.
01:53I hadn't seen that in any type of studio movie.
01:59I just really remember feeling surprised
02:04and just so excited and grateful
02:07to be treated as a collaborator, you know?
02:11And it meant a lot to me.
02:14Okay, Veronica Sawyer.
02:17Heathers is another one of my favorites.
02:19I think it's a masterpiece.
02:21I absolutely just was just in love with the script,
02:26in love with the character, the language.
02:29I mean, I was just, you don't have to pay me.
02:33I just need to say these lines.
02:35Each Heather is a different color
02:37and they're actually very different girls,
02:41but they're part of this clique.
02:43We decided on blue for Veronica.
02:46Blue, to me, it's almost bruised, you know?
02:51And I felt like she was going through
02:54a lot of emotional bruising, you know?
02:58Be it from JD or the girls or her own conscience.
03:05It made the most sense and I identified with that color.
03:10I've also been a huge Joni Mitchell fan.
03:14The term in the sort of, oh, I've got the blues.
03:18Like, I was sort of, there was a lot of different
03:21little things that I had in my head
03:25that I just kept for myself that had to do with blue.
03:28Oh, Veronica.
03:30It was returning from Edward Scissorhands.
03:33Out of frame is Tim Burton.
03:35And this was back when the paparazzi
03:37could wait literally at the gate.
03:40It was always so embarrassing
03:42because you'd have this long walk
03:45and everyone would be looking like,
03:47who are you photographing?
03:49I still have this Stegosaurus briefcase
03:52or it's like a mini suitcase and I still use it.
03:57I do think it does capture, A, the mood you're in
04:00when you're greeted by paparazzi.
04:05It also reminds me of that time,
04:08which was a really nice time.
04:13This was taken at the premiere of The Commitments.
04:17Last minute, got it invited.
04:20Just literally wearing my old Doc Martens,
04:26my precious Tom Waves T-shirt that I wear all the time.
04:32Leather jacket, which I think was my mom's.
04:38I wonder if I still have it.
04:39I probably do.
04:41My dad was right out of frame.
04:45This was the brilliant Aiko Ishioka
04:47who did these incredible costumes.
04:50It was my first experience in corsets, which was intense.
04:56Really, really helped in terms of like building
04:59the character and how you carry yourself,
05:02how women were sort of forced to carry themselves
05:04with these clothes.
05:07The great Andre Leon Talley was there.
05:11We had, you know, these little breaks
05:13because back then we filmed with film
05:16and when it would run out, they'd have to reload.
05:19And so you'd have about 20 minutes
05:21and Andre was so wonderful and patient,
05:24but he'd steal us away.
05:26It was a really fun day.
05:28I really loved him.
05:30This was sort of the time where everyone
05:32was wearing those little slip dresses.
05:35I was suddenly considered attractive.
05:37I wasn't playing like the weirdo.
05:41Something shifted and I was suddenly
05:44sort of like a leading lady, you know,
05:47which I kind of didn't see coming.
05:49But back then, you know, you're so focused on the work
05:53that you're not really thinking about your persona.
05:56I do remember this being like, oh my,
05:58it was like on the cover of Vogue.
06:01If you had told me that a few years prior,
06:04I would have like never, ever believed it.
06:08It was definitely a switch, a switch for me.
06:13Ah, The Age of Innocence.
06:15Another favorite of mine, obviously,
06:19to work with Scorsese is Any Actor's Dream
06:24to work with Daniel Day-Lewis is,
06:29I mean, it doesn't get better than that.
06:31There's this scene where I sort of come in
06:34and I'm taking my hat off and I embrace him.
06:38Marty had me switch the hat pin,
06:40so I'm literally, looks like I could stab him.
06:44And there's this great line, Richard E. Grant says it,
06:47where he says that my character has eyes
06:51with a lot of lashes.
06:53And I just always thought that was such a incredible line.
06:57The costumes were very important and very detailed.
07:04This was at the Academy Awards
07:05was the first time I was nominated.
07:08I do remember sitting there.
07:10I was actually quite scared to win
07:13because I always felt like there was like,
07:16there would be a backlash.
07:18And I was young and yeah,
07:21it was like a little bit of a stressful night,
07:23but I also was very nervous about sitting
07:27and not breaking the beads.
07:28It was just very,
07:29I was just trying to take care of the beads.
07:32And then, ah, Susanna from Girl Interrupted.
07:36My gosh, I still have this shirt.
07:39This movie meant a lot to me.
07:40It was a very complex role and it was a true story.
07:46And I very much wanted to do it justice
07:51to Susanna Kaysen, who I play.
07:53The wardrobe was very, very crucial, you know,
07:57because it was at the end of the sixties.
08:01It was a weird time because people just were not talking
08:05about anything to do with mental illness.
08:09I wanted to sort of start some sort of dialogue
08:13about making people feel a little bit less
08:16like it's just them and that, you know, they're crazy.
08:20This is a beautiful vintage Pauline Trugere dress.
08:25I've worn it a few times because it's so beautiful.
08:27I wore it once without the cape.
08:29It's just a stunning dress.
08:33This is Marc Jacobs.
08:35This was the time I went to the Met Gala
08:39and I went with Marc.
08:40He put me in this beautiful velvet dress.
08:44It was a really nice night, yeah.
08:48Okay, Joyce Byers.
08:49So the look was inspired by the movie
08:52Silkwood and Meryl Streep.
08:54There's a scene where I'm wearing like the same type
08:57of leather jacket that she wears.
09:00It's always very important to me with all of the work
09:04that I do, that I'm dressing in a way
09:08of what my character can afford.
09:10On Stranger Things, I do a lot of repeats
09:13over the last five seasons.
09:16I'm still wearing a lot of the same stuff
09:19because, I mean, she's working two jobs.
09:22I grew up in a home that, you know,
09:24we didn't lose hand-me-downs and stuff like that.
09:27I very much wanted to incorporate that into it.
09:31This is one of my favorite things I've worn.
09:35It's Dior.
09:36Gorgeous piece.
09:38It's sort of a blazer over a dress,
09:43but you can't really, it's almost incorporated
09:46into the dress and it has these sort of almost,
09:50I don't know how to, they look like feathers,
09:53but they're material.
09:54It was just absolutely beautiful.
09:56I felt beautiful.
09:57It was comfortable.
09:59Got to wear my boots underneath.
10:01I love that.
10:02I wanted to keep her essence,
10:04but she has a kid now and obviously her life has changed.
10:08Colleen Atwood, who's just so brilliant.
10:13I mean, a true genius.
10:15One of the best costume artists I've ever known.
10:18And I've known her since Edward Scissorhands
10:21and she's a woman for me.
10:22And she, I mean, we just,
10:24we've worked together so many times,
10:25but she really, really helped me to keep Lydia,
10:30but also bring her more into where she is in the movie,
10:36which is struggling a bit.
10:38All right.
10:45And that is my life in looks.
10:48♪♪♪
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