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Winona, who took the name Ryder when she started acting, would commute with her folks by car (they couldn't afford the airfare) to Los Angeles -- a nine- hour drive. The long haul was a blessing in disguise: because traveling was such an ordeal, Ryder turned down roles in many a cheesy horror film. Her debut, Lucas, made when she was 13, set the tone for her later choices. It was a sensible, sensitive tale of ordinary kids growing up. Soon she got her first two defining parts: in Beetlejuice and in Heathers, Daniel Waters' blistering portrait of suicidal teens...
...series of engaging dramas (Mermaids and Edward Scissorhands, starring her then beau, Johnny Depp), Ryder grew up on film and matured in her skills. By the time of Little Women, when she had enough clout to jump-start the project and enough savvy to help select the luminous young cast, she could play a very convincing big sister to her screen sibs. She kept the young actresses amused on the Vancouver set with games like Take a Bow. For example: "Bow like the fading star who knows she's going to be replaced next week...
...Ryder won't fade soon. Adult roles are imminent; she'll fill the characters as well as the costumes. Once waif thin, she now has a figure so womanly that, after it was on show in a Vogue pictorial, she was accused of having had breast implants. The very notion propels her into a verbal dither. "I'm way too chicken to go under the knife," she says. "The thought of someone touching your breast with something metal is like the most -- it's so -- I mean -- it's horrifying to even think about...
With an impressive total of 14 films in eight short years, the early box- office success of Little Women, an Oscar nomination for The Age of Innocence and two or three movies -- due out this year, Ryder can think instead about the brilliant career behind and ahead of her. She has other things in mind too. "I'm one of those people who wanted to be a mom since I was five. But I don't know when it's going to happen. I'm not going to try, but I'm not going...
...seems happy -- as few of her screen characters are -- in a craft she does well and with a man who loves her. "Dave is noncompetitive," she says, "and men sometimes don't have that feeling about a successful woman." Ryder pauses briefly. "That's the first time I've referred to myself as a woman...