Christina Ricci Reveals The Reason She's Okay Losing in Her Emmy Category

As a rule, Sydney Sweeney is drawn to characters that are nothing like her. “I find that challenge interesting,” she says. But playing Cassie Howard, the LA teen who wears her emotions on her sleeve in Sam Levinson’s Euphoria was a welcome exception for the 24-year-old. “Cassie is one of the most relatable characters to me, because I search for love and acceptance, and I’m scared of being alone.” Deadline talked to Sweeney about embodying the intensity of her character, showing real depth to Cassie and what makes her character Olivia on Mike White’s black comedy The White Lotus so terrifying.

Saturday Night Live cast member Kenan Thompson has been confirmed as the host for the 74th Emmy Awards next month. The ceremony will be telecast on NBC live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on 12 September, It will also be streamed live on Peacock for the first time.

Like a number of her “Yellowjackets” co-stars, Christina Ricci is having another triumphant moment in an already impressive career. She just earned her second Emmy nomination for her portrayal as the adult Misty in the Showtime series and, this fall, will reunite with her “Sleepy Hollow” director Tim Burton for a new incarnation of “Wednesday.” The latter is based on the popular “Adams Family” character Wednesday Adams which was one of her breakthrough roles as a teenager.

A second chance at love! After a tumultuous first marriage, Christina Ricci found what she was looking for in husband Mark Hampton. 

Selome Hailu The acting awards tend to be among the most anticipated recognitions doled out at the Emmys every year, while several below-the-line awards are announced off-the-air. It makes sense, given that the lead, supporting and guest actor categories are where all the A-list names are housed, but it’s one of the quieter races that provides the TV Academy with talent to root for in the first place: the Emmy awards for casting.Among the 20 nominations earned by “The White Lotus” are noms for stars Connie Britton, Jennifer Coolidge, Alexandra Daddario, Natasha Rothwell, Sydney Sweeney, Murray Bartlett, Jake Lacy and Steve Zahn.

Christina Ricci read the “Yellowjackets” script for the first time, she was fascinated by one specific quality of Misty Quigley: Her pettiness.At the start, she wasn’t told much about the character’s arc in the Showtime survival drama. She didn’t know that as a girl Misty was so desperate to be needed by her peers so after a plane crash, she chose to destroy the black box, which meant the girls were deserted for months.

Christina Ricci is looking back at many of her choices during the 90’s, admitting during a recent interview that she wishes she could go back in time to make different decisions. The Hollywood star, who recently revealed how she really feels about her Emmy nomination for her role in ‘Yellowjackets,’ says that she would like to do it all over again and make some adjustments in her professional life.The 42-year-old actress talked to co-stars Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, and Tawny Cypress in a joint interview, confessing that she definitely has some regrets.“This is very dark,” she explained, “but I would just like to go back to that age and do it over again and not make so many f—king mistakes.”Honestly, I regret so much,“ she revealed to The Hollywood Reporter, admitting that if she could she would “like to go back to 1996 and be like, ‘All right...

The Addams Family and 1995’s Caspar, admitted that she wished she’d done some things differently across the decade.Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Ricci said: “This is very dark, but I would just like to go back to that age and do it over again and not make so many fucking mistakes. Honestly, I regret so much.“I’d like to go back to 1996 and be like, ‘All right… we had a practice run.

Christina Ricci wishes she could redo the '90s because she regrets so many of her choices. The 42-year-old actress made her movie debut as a child star in the 1990 movie Mermaids and followed it up with '90s classics such as Casper, The Addams Family, and Now and Then. Despite her professional success in that decade, Ricci confessed to her Yellowjackets co-stars Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, and Tawny Cypress in a joint interview that she is filled with regret about her mistakes during that time of her life.

Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci had a candid conversation about learning what it meant to be gay when Ricci was just 9 years old and working with Depp's then-girlfriend, Winona Ryder, on the '90s classic, "Mermaids." The "Yellowjackets" star recalled the conversation while chatting with Andy Cohen on his SiriusXM's "Radio Andy" show, and remembered later working with Depp on "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." "Johnny [Depp] is actually the person who explained to me what homosexuality was when I was 9," she said.  Johnny Depp "explained homosexuality" to Christina Ricci when she was 9 and working on her first film set, "Mermaids." (Getty Images) Cohen asked, "Really? And how did that come up and how did he explain it?"  "There was something going on on-set and someone was not being nice to someone else," Ricci said. "And they were like, ‘Oh, well he might be homophobic.' And then I was like, 'Well, I don't understand what that is.' And, and I was in Winona's [Ryder] trailer, and she was like, 'I don't know how … ' So, she put me on the phone with Johnny.

Christina Ricci was nine years old, she did not know the meaning of homosexuality. Enter Winona Ryder, who then got Johnny Depp -- whom she was dating at the time — on the horn to explain it in the «simplest terms.»During an interview on SiriusXM's show, the star revealed that, while shooting the 1990 dramedy  with Cher and Ryder, there was an incident where the term «homophobic» came up. Ricci was only nine at the time, but she had the presence of mind to ask Ryder about the term.«There was something going on on-set and someone was not being nice to someone else,» Ricci explained.

Christina Ricci is sharing how Johnny Depp taught her an important concept on the set of “Mermaids”.

Christina Ricci is sharing an interesting new detail about her longtime acting relationship with Johnny Depp.