She found herself at the bleak bottom of a two-year depression. Things were different in 1993, when she was in Portugal, shooting The House of Spirits. “I’m playing this girl who’s so lost, and I’ve never felt so found before,” she says, and means it. Today is their reunion after a five-day separation, and they can’t keep their hands off each other. with her, watching old movies when she is, he visits her on location, enduring the tedium with infinite patience. He is, she says, “the only happy-go-lucky, jolly musician I know.” When she isn’t working, he stays up until three a.m. Everyone on the set likes Dave, but Winona likes him the most. He is wry and relaxed, smiles easily, smokes constantly (I’m no quitter,” he says). she’s perched n the lap of David Pirner, the lead singer for the rock band Soul Asylum and her boyfriend of the past year and a half. “I feel like I don’t know what I’m doing out there,” she says after many takes. She’s playing a compromise – confused but concentrated. “Where’s my horse?” she says over and over, her voice just above whisper, as the cameras roll. Winona’s worried: Stacy wants her to play the scene alert and focused, and Winona feels her character would be cloudier, disoriented. In the scene being shot today, her character, a feckless young woman, has been knocked unconscious in a fall from a horse she wakes up in a boarding-school boys dorm room. Winona picks at the food, then collects the books she’s reading – a biography of Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee, and journalist Peggy Orenstein’s study of adolescent girls – and leaves for the set. Her mother, Cindy, slight and pretty, in Baltimore to keep her company, has set out grapefruit and a slab of toast. “I was … throwing rice at her,” Winona says. Steve Cochran, the writer-director of Boys, the “small, weird” film Winona is making, was in the dream too. All the directors she has ever worked with were in it, and all of them were angry at her. “I just had a terrible dream,” she says sleepily. But she had to overcome a bizarre adolescence and the throes of depression to get there.īaltimore, Nine A.M.: Dressed in jeans and a long-sleeved undershirt, Winona Ryder shuffles into the kitchen of her rented home. Winona Ryder is the name above the title in Little Women.
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