Category: Stranger Things

Winona Ryder visits “Jimmy Kimmel Live”

Friday, Sep 2, 2016

Last night Winona was guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live, still promoting Stranger Things that was just renewed for its second season.

While talking about her pre-acting jobs, she talked about babysitting Tom Waits kids. Unknowingly.

When I was about 14, I went with my friend to babysit these kids and I didn’t know whose kids they were. And they were wonderful, they were little. And in walks Tom Waits, who is like my hero. They were Tom Waits’ kids. I remember he was doing a play at the time and he didn’t have the 20 bucks and so he gave me a T-shirt from Franks Wild Years … and I was thrilled, and literally I couldn’t speak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgIxaHkNcG4

Check below some other excerpts of the interview.

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‘Stranger Things” Season 2 Confirmed!

Wednesday, Aug 31, 2016

Let’s celebrate! The second season of Stranger Things was just confirmed, and it’s coming in 2017!

Edit: According to TV Line, the second season will have NINE episodes.

New “Stranger Things” Publicity Stills

Monday, Aug 29, 2016

And the gallery was updated with more HQ promotional stills of Winona as Joyce Byers on Stranger Things. The hit show is currently being streamed worldwide on Netflix.

Holly, Jolly – “Stranger Things” Screencaptures

Thursday, Aug 4, 2016
Holly, Jolly – “Stranger Things” Screencaptures

Screencaptures of Stranger Things chapter three, “Holly, Jolly”, has been added to the gallery. This is the episode that has some of my favourite sequences, the light talking. Enjoy it!

“Stranger Things” TCA Portraits

Thursday, Jul 28, 2016

Added some adorable (and exclusive!) portraits of Winona and Millie Brown taken yesterday during the TCA Summer Tour.

Winona Attends Netflix’s Summer TCA Press

Thursday, Jul 28, 2016

Yesterday Winona attended the 2016 Television Critics Association Summer Tour in Beverly Hills during the Netflix presentation of her show Stranger Things.

She was joined by series creators Matt and Ross Duffer, along stars Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, and Caleb McLaughlin to discuss the breakout hit’s success as well as plans for any future seasons.

According to the creators, a second season is a sure thing, but no date will be announced since Netflix want’s to keep the buzz around the first season.

Ryder talked at length about her own career, transitioning from a child actress to adult roles. “My 30s were a little bit tough,” she admitted. “But the last few years I did a few things I was proud of,” singling out “Show Me a Hero.”

She said she initially scared by her first foray into the genre format. But “I adjusted my perspective and used my own confusion to try to figure what was going on for my character,” she said. “The reaction has been completely overwhelming in the best possible way. I don’t think I was expecting it.” Winona is not on social media, as she pointed during the press, but she’s aware of everything going on internet: “I have a good system: My parents read everything and forward me the best stuff.”

When you’re talking to lamps… after a while that you’re just praying it works,” she said. “The way they brought these storylines together so beautifully. It was falling in love with it all over again.”

Ryder said she had a lot of compassion for Joyce. “I did see her as someone who wasn’t perfect,” she said. “She was complicated, struggling. She carried a lot of guilt that she was leaning on her older son. Like a lot of women I know she was trying the best she can to get by. I appreciated her flaws… There’s nothing cookie-cutter or perfect about her. [And] she reacts quite appropriately to these insane things that are happening.”

Ryder also had some advice for her young co-stars: “The work is the reward,” she said. “The attention and the love is so great. I want everyone to feel it and savor it and they so deserve it. But also remember the work itself.”

As for those lights, she called filming those scenes the most challenging. “Those lights were like my rosebud,” she said. “I don’t think I knew it at the time.”

Photos wasn’t allowed during the panel, but Netflix released two official photos with Winona on it. Check it: