It is not the first time that one of the actresses of Interrupted innocence (1999) refers to how difficult it was to shoot James Mangold’s film with Angelina Jolie. In 2010, Winona Ryder one of the protagonists of the film, told Sydney Morning Herald that she was not Jolie’s friend during production: “She needed to look at me as the Susanna character, not Winona, so she respectfully kept her distance.”
Now it has been Elisabeth Moss who has told of her negative experience with the actress during the development of the same film. The interpreter of The Handmaid’s Tale has visited Kelly Ripa’s podcast, Let’s Talk Off Camera (via Variety), to promote his new series, The Veil, and there he spoke about his work in Interrupted innocence when he was only 15 years old.
In the film, with Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie leading the cast, Moss played Polly Clark, a schizophrenic patient at Claymoore Hospital where Susanna Kaysen (Ryder) was admitted. Due to the tension between Ryder and Jolie’s characters, the set was also divided into two sides, as Moss recalled.
“There were like two groups. There was Winona Ryder’s group and Angelina Jolie’s group behind the cameras, but based on what happened in front of the cameras, based on the script,” the actress revealed: “I was in the Winona Ryder’s group. Angelina Jolie’s group was very cool. I was intimidated by Angelina Jolie’s group. “I didn’t even think about being in that group.”
Moss has acknowledged that he has met Jolie again after Interrupted innocence and she has been close. “I’ve spoken to Angelina since then and she’s lovely, but at the time she was very intimidating to me,” She said: “I’ve never talked to her about it. I’m sure she wouldn’t know what I’m talking about. I just wasn’t cool enough to be on her side.”
Elisabeth Moss in ‘Girl, Interrupted’
Interrupted innocence is based on the memoirs of Susanna Kaysen. Ryder played Kaysen, an 18-year-old girl with a personality disorder who was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Jolie, for her part, got into the shoes of Lisa Rowe, a sociopathic and manipulative patient who earned her her only Oscar so far.
On Ripa’s podcast, Moss stated that filming this production was “An incredible experience”: “I was 15 or 16 years old. My mother still accompanied me to the set. I was with all these movie stars. Winona Ryder! Angelina Jolie! Clea DuVall! Britney Murphy! This wonderful cast of women. It was like I was they will leave in The Wizard of Oz”.
“I was so amazed by my surroundings and working with Winona and Angelina, and they were so different and interesting,” she concluded.
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