New Winona Ryder Coffee Table Book Features About 100 Never-Before-Seen Photographs Taken by One of Her Best Friends
30.11.2023 - 16:16
/ variety.com
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Robert Rich met Winona Ryder shortly after the release of “Girl, Interrupted” in 1999 when she was shopping at the Marc Jacobs store in the Mercer Hotel in New York City. Rich, who was head of communications for the designer at the time, nervously approached the actor. “I said, ‘I loved ‘Girl Interrupted,’ and she went, ‘That’s a girls movie,’” Rich recalls.
“I said, ‘I’m a girls movie kind of guy.’” They became fast friends. Now, more than two decades later, Rich is the author of “Winona,” a coffee table book featuring over 100 photos of Ryder, plus a forward by Jacobs. Rich took most of the picture.
These aren’t glamour shots, but intimate Polaroids and images that were taken during private times together — many snapped inside the Marc Jacobs offices with other superstars like Kate Moss. Variety caught up with Rich over Zoom as he prepares to host a launch event for the book on Thursday in New York City at Dover Street Market New York. How many photos of Winona do you have? Tons! Tons! First it was Polaroids in the office.
I knew Winona before the camera-phones so once we had camera-phones, forget it. There are old phones I had never downloaded the photos off of so we found a ton of photos on them, too. I could do another 10 books of Winona.
Winona is so private. Did you have to pitch her the book idea and convince her to allow you to do it? I just texted her the idea and she loved it. Which are some of your favorite photos in the book? Brian Bowen Smith took photos of Winona nude that we did for the Protect the Skin campaign for skin cancer.
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