Christina Ricci

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🗓️ 17 March 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Christina Ricci got her first paid acting gig when she was ten. Within a couple of years, Christina was everywhere: Casper, Now and Then, and of course, The Addams Family. She was one of the biggest child stars of the '90s. Then, an indie film legend in films like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Ice Storm, and Buffalo 66. These days, Christina Ricci is the Emmy-nominated star of the Showtime drama Yellowjackets. Correspondent Jordan Crucciola—host of the Maximum Fun podcast Feeling Seen—geeks out with Christina about all things Yellowjackets. Plus, they talk about why taking on comedic roles makes her deeply uncomfortable – even though she's played plenty of great comedic roles. A version of this interview originally aired in in August of 2022.

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0:31.8	Bullseye with Jesse'm Jesse Thorne.
0:48.4	Christina Ricci got her first paid acting gig when she was 10 years old.
0:53.0	She was Cher's daughter in Mermaids in 1990. Within a
0:57.3	couple years, she was everywhere. The Adams family, Casper, now and then, one of the biggest
1:03.4	child stars of the 90s. But Christina Ricci didn't want to be a child star. She didn't like
1:10.3	kids' movies. As soon as she could,
1:12.7	she started taking grown-up parts, artsy, boundary-pushing grown-up parts, fear and loathing in
1:18.8	Las Vegas, the ice storm, Buffalo 66, the opposite of sex. We're talking about iconic indie movies.
1:30.8	Show business is, of course, a fickle thing,
1:37.3	though. And while in those ensuing years, Ritchie kept working, she didn't get as many of those big, thrilling dream parts. These days, though, were in a Ritchie Renaissance. In 2019, she was cast as Misty Quigley in Yellow Jackets.
1:48.8	At the time, it was just a buzzy upcoming show. In 2021, it premiered on Showtime, and it was a hit.
1:57.1	Critics raved, audiences loved it, and it got Christina Ricci an Emmy nomination. Yellow Jackets is about to kick off its second season, March 26th.
2:07.3	There's probably no bigger Christina Ricci fan than Jordan Cruciola. There's certainly no bigger Yellow Jackets fan than Jordan Cruciola.
2:16.3	And Jordan got to talk with her about Yellow Jackets and
2:19.2	much more just last year. If you don't know, Jordan, she is a film writer and the host of the
2:24.5	Maximum Fun podcast, Feeling Seen. In case you haven't seen yellow jackets, it's about a group of
2:30.7	teenage girls who survive a plane crash. The timeline on the show alternates between the crash and now, when the adult survivors are forced to sort through their trauma.
2:42.4	Christina Rigi plays the adult Misty, one of the survivors.
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