Elisabeth Moss Says Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie Had Rival ‘Camps’ on the “Lady, Interrupted” Set

Any lady who’s been by an angsty section has doubtless discovered herself watching Lady, Interrupted, the 1999 film based mostly on a memoir of the identical identify, about life in a psychiatric hospital within the ’60s, significantly the wing that treats younger ladies with extreme psychological and emotional issues. The solid is stacked with a roster of A-listers: Whoopi Goldberg, Winona Ryder, Clea Duvall, the late Brittany Murphy, and Angelina Jolie, who received an Oscar for her function. Additionally within the solid was a younger Elisabeth Moss as Polly “Torch” Clark, recognisable from her feathery voice, as her character’s face was disfigured in a hearth. Now, she’s spilling just a little tea on the behind-the-scenes tensions, and, yeah, there have been cliques.

“There have been two sorts of camps. There was the Winona Ryder camp and the Angelina Jolie camp,” she informed Kelly Ripa on a latest episode of the host’s Let’s Discuss Off Digicam podcast, per NBC Information. She defined that the “camps” have been “Off digicam, however based mostly on what was on digicam, based mostly on the script,” and that, “I used to be within the Winona Ryder camp. The Angelina Jolie camp was actually cool. I used to be intimidated by the Angelina Jolie camp. I had no ideas of ever with the ability to be in that camp.”

“I’ve spoken to Angelina since then and she or he’s beautiful, however on the time it was simply extremely intimidating,” Moss added. “I by no means introduced it up. I’m certain she would do not know what I used to be speaking about anyway. I used to be simply positively not cool sufficient to be in her camp.”

Although we are able to’t think about anybody cooler than Winona Ryder, Jolie did have a “unhealthy lady” picture on the time and got here from a Hollywood household, whereas Ryder was just a little extra quirky, having starred in enjoyable initiatives like Little Girls and Beetlejuice, so perhaps she was simply simpler to method? Jolie was additionally maintaining herself separated from Ryder to raised play her character, the risky, self-destructive Lisa. As Ryder recalled to the Sydney Morning Herald, “I bear in mind pondering, ‘Oh we’re going to become nice mates’…However I feel she wanted to have the ability to take a look at me simply because the character Susanna, not as Winona, so in a really respectful manner she simply type of stored her distance.”