Christina Ricci at 18 on Anorexia and Other Taboo Subjects
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Length: 06:48
"I was really anorexic at the time. I looked like a walking skeleton. ... I looked kind of like E.T." - Actress Christina Ricci during a 1998 interview with Thomas Beller.
Sometimes when you’re a print journalist and you’re writing a profile, a feature, you get some really good access to someone. Instead of 20 minutes on the phone, a rushed conversation, you can spend a few hours… even a whole night out with the person you’re interviewing. The conversations become quite casual… and often quite candid.
That's exactly what happened one evening in 1998 when Thomas Beller kicked around New York City with actress Christina Ricci. They played pool, had dinner and covered everything from anorexia and God, to incest and her 1967 Ford Falcon Futura.
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"I was really anorexic at the time. I looked like a walking skeleton. ... I looked kind of like E.T." - Actress Christina Ricci during a 1998 interview with Thomas Beller.
Sometimes when you’re a print journalist and you’re writing a profile, a feature, you get some really good access to someone. Instead of 20 minutes on the phone, a rushed conversation, you can spend a few hours… even a whole night out with the person you’re interviewing. The conversations become quite casual… and often quite candid.
That's exactly what happened one evening in 1998 when Thomas Beller kicked around New York City with actress Christina Ricci. They played pool, had dinner and covered everything from anorexia and God, to incest and her 1967 Ford Falcon Futura.
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