Christina Ricci Thought She Was “Terrible” in Casper

Christina Ricci will not be impressed by her efficiency in 1995’s “Casper.” In an Aug. 15 look on Marc Maron’s podcast “WTF,” the 42-year-old actor confessed she feels she was merely terrible in the movie.

“If you really watch ‘Casper,’ I’m horrible,” she mentioned. Fortunately, she would not suppose the film itself is unhealthy — simply her. “People get so upset once I say that. And I’m like, ‘No, it is a fantastic film,” she added. “It’s a childhood treasure. But I’m horrible in it.'”

Apparently, tween angst had one thing to do together with her percieved poor efficiency. “There was so much occurring in my [life],” she defined. “Everything was very tough. I used to be all the time aggravated, and I simply do not suppose I attempted very exhausting, to let you know the reality. Embarrassingly, I do not suppose I attempted as exhausting as perhaps I ought to have.”

The actor, who was 13 when the film started filming, mentioned that when she watched the film together with her 8-year-old son, Freddie, she cringed. “I bear in mind pondering, ‘Wow. OK. That was not a plausible line-reading in any respect. Just no dedication,'” she continued.

Ricci does really feel extra linked to her iconic efficiency as Wednesday Addams in “The Addams Family,” nevertheless. “I really feel very inextricably certain to her, as a result of I really feel, like, who can say how a lot affect being that individual at that age for the period of time that I used to be her, the quantity of optimistic reinforcement from enjoying that character,” she mentioned in a 2018 interview with The A.V. Club.

The youngest Addams Family member is getting new life in Tim Burton’s “Wednesday,” which simply launched a trailer and which stars Jenna Ortega because the titular goth icon. Ricci may also seem in the spinoff, although her function has not but been revealed.