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The one-time megastar climbs back from her very public fall from grace with Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, which sees the former Girl, Interrupted turned into a Girl, Animated via Linklater’s impressive rotoscoping process. As junkie slackette Donna, she’s reteamed with her Dracula co-star Keanu Reeves, something she’s very happy about. Interview to Empire Online [...]

At 28, Winona Ryder looks like a teenager — a fragile, waif-like teenager, very much like the 16-year-old mental patient who is at the heart of the film, “Girl, Interrupted,” described by some as an all-girls “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”

“The devil is an abusive tool used to discipline children,” insists Ryder adding that “adults find it convenient to blame the devil for things they do.”

Ryder exorcised the devil from her life at a young age.

As we write this, with Halloween 2000 approaching and a spate of devil themed movies hitting the big screens, we snatched up the opportunity to speak to the star of one of ‘em, Winona Ryder of Lost Souls. Ryder, born Horowitz — and to some interesting conversation down below — has had a remarkable career that has seen two nominations for an Academy Award (for Supporting Actress in Little Women and The Age of Innocence) and great roles in dramas Reality Bites and Girl, Interrupted (where she stepped back and let Angelina Jolie steal the show, IMHO).

You never know what to expect from Winona Ryder. The actress who practically grew up on screen has been everything from funny and scary, to romantic in movies. Having just recently played a character who falls in love with Richard Gere in Autumn In New York, Ryder is now mixing it up with the devil in order to rid the world of evil in Janusz Kaminski’s Lost Souls. Sitting down with Ryder, I decided to play devil’s advocate and probe along with her the kinds of demons she’d like to exorcise from Hollywood.