Christina Ricci
Appearances
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
But maybe in some way I'm like trying to mitigate my feelings of mortality. In some way, like if we already act like I'm dead, maybe it won't be as unusual. It's such a huge shocker. It's like when you call yourself 40 when you're only 37 and you're just like, I know I'm getting used to it. I wonder if maybe subconsciously that's what I'm doing.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
I'm not there yet. Like, that's terrifying. But I do find it easier to just, like, accept. Accept that we're going to die. And then, you know, work with that.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
But, you know, when people bring up, like, the whole thing is about, like, legacy and permanency. And long after... Somebody can't... They were, like, you know... You have to answer all these questions right afterwards about the star right there at the time. And they're asking you what it means to you. And I guess my answers weren't quite what they wanted, the person running the press for it.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
So somebody said, you know, another great thing to say is that, and I was like, oh, okay. So I am tanking this one, apparently. Yeah. I don't seem grateful enough. But another great thing to say is that I love this because I know that even decades after my death, my children's children and their children will be able to come and visit this star. And I was like... What?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
So, like, the best thing about this is that it involves me being dead.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
Not to be, like... glib about any of it or not as taken as seriously as I'm supposed to, which I really was moved by it and I really was appreciative. But it is still just concrete. Like a bomb could go off and then that, it's gone. It's not like, like nothing is indelible.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
There really isn't. So I was like, oh, it's permanent. And the whole time I'm just thinking like, yeah, unless someone... has a jackhammer or they like expand the freeway or this building falls on this site.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
We are living in unprecedented times, my friend. So anything is possible at this moment.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
I was actually really happy. That was the first thing I asked. I was like, where exactly is my star located? I'm at Hollywood and Vine. What? I know. It's like a really great location. The frolic room is across the street. Little door is like right around there. Those are bars.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
No, but the Frolic Room is historical. The Frolic Room is in Women Under the Influence. Yeah. Or Women Under the Influence.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
I think I was there one time, but I more always loved seeing it. And that it's in it's in the Jenna Rollins movie, the Cassidy's movie.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
I enjoyed a lot of places also. Yeah. Sometimes I don't remember those places I enjoyed. I enjoyed them so much that I don't even remember leaving.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
Yeah, I don't think I always had a lot of objectivity or the ability to really analyze myself at those times, those younger ages. So I never really felt famous. I still forget a lot. And I was never really comfortable with it. So for me, it was, didn't ever feel like power. It sort of felt like something I had to like navigate.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
Like when I lived, I used to live over in Los Feliz in the Oaks and I would drive around when I was like in my twenties and I was, you know, I'm a small person. And so being a young woman, very small and having people follow me or talk to strangers, approach me and stuff felt very threatening at the time.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
So I played this mental game where I pretended that my dad was just this doctor that everybody loved in town. And I was just like, oh, Dr. Ricci's daughter. And that's why everybody was being nice to me. But not that I was famous. And everybody just really wished me well. And it worked. It worked. I became very comfortable. But then to the point where I didn't have my guard up enough.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
I did not enjoy that. Just because people, they'll follow you all the way home. And I lived by myself. And that felt very threatening. And I found there was a liquor store on the corner, Victor's, that's right across the street from the Gelson's up there. And Rick was this guy who always worked in there. He was always smoking a cigarette. And he's the only person I would ever let call me Chris.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
And if anyone ever followed me, I'd pull into the liquor store and I'd go tell Rick. And Rick would come out and chase them off so I could drive home. And then one time, my sister and I lived together in our 20s. And there was actually a man that would come and sit outside the house and leave notes on my car and stuff. And sometimes we'd be, like, ready to go to dinner.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
But he'd be out there waiting. And we'd be like, oh, man. So we'd just, like, turn off all the lights and wait until he left. Oh. No, but like so. So fame was like it was great. Like I get into any restaurant and I never had problems getting into clubs and all that stuff.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
But it also was like there were just like, you know, logistical and security issues that to me loomed larger in my mind than the actual like fun of being famous.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
Well, I think it just depends, you know. But yeah, I was, I felt, I did feel threatened a lot. And I still am a person who's very paranoid and safety conscious. So I still will feel a little threatened if a strange man walks up to me and like touches me or starts just, I don't know, follows me to my car. I don't like that.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
I do think there's something a little bit ambiguous about me. I mean, people I'll compliment the person. They think I'm making fun of them. I don't know that I'm the easiest person to read. And so perhaps that's what he's talking about.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
To project something onto it. Yeah, maybe. I'm also very flat in affect, and I think that people just assume... I don't know. I just think that that's difficult because I don't emote that much normally.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
That would be very helpful, though, if we could turn different colors based on our moods. That would be so helpful.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
It's interesting to me that you probably knew as a kid, you clearly knew this is something I'm interested in doing.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
I was in second grade and they brought in sheets of lines and stuff into music class and they said, we're putting on a Christmas pageant and here's the pageant we're doing and read these lines. And the second I saw them and started reading them and
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
participating i just remember i remember sitting there by myself and being like oh i know how to do this and nobody else here does and i just was like oh this that's so crazy i know exactly what he wants and this kid over here can't do it and that one and i just felt really in that moment i felt like i had found my thing yeah um and then it just always felt like that to me like i just had a shorthand into understanding what was needed to do that work as a kid
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
Yeah, but you do see people who are lost and just have no idea what their special thing is. That's very sad.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
As a parent, I have a real fear of that happening to my kids.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
And I guess also being someone who had happened for very early, I would love for them to have that because it's such a relief. And I really have seen how lucky I was to find it so early.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
Yeah, no, I agree. I go back and forth. My son has shown a lot of interest in it. I think he'd be very good at it. But there's also these all the logistical things like who's going to take him? I work full time. I can't go to set with him. And yeah, I and also it's risky. Who knows if he's going to handle it that well?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
I know. I have a very strong, overly attached. I'm overly attached to my son. And anything he experiences emotionally, I also experience. And it's not healthy. But I have the same thing. I always worry about him going into a new sport. Because what if he feels bad about not being good at it? Or if anybody's mean to him? Or if someone makes fun of his sneakers?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
I'm like, well, we're going to get you the best sneakers they've ever seen.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
That's the problem. That was me being intense. Oh, okay. This is why I'm such a good actor.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
I do. I really do. And, you know, I was, you know, I had like sort of my big moment in my 20s and went to all the award shows and all the stuff. And then that sort of stopped and I didn't really work that much for a while. And then this Yellow Jackets thing happened. And then all of a sudden we were going to award shows again and all this stuff.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
And it was so interesting because this time I could just be like, oh, my God, I love that guy. Hey, I'm Christina. And like just be really
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
open and easy and fun and like I you know it just it was um like you said like I wasn't uh I wasn't so self-conscious and I wasn't so worried about everything I didn't take myself as seriously as I used to and uh and so it's it's actually you it has been really really fun
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
Just stop it. That's not what I thought. Come on. I thought, oh, I've known Conan forever. Our careers kind of started at the same time.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
Thank you. Thank you so much. I was so excited to come and see you. And I do feel like we've been in each other's lives forever. We have. Our career started at the same time, basically.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
Hi, my name is Christina Ricci. And I feel pretty good about being Conan O'Brien's name. Pretty good. Oh, my God. I don't think pretty good is a bad thing, but I've had this argument with an ex-boyfriend who was like, why is qualifying good? It means it isn't that good. Yeah.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
I mean, my adult career. I'd already had a child's career.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
We have not gotten our pickup yet. for season four let me handle that so we're all everybody's like I could make one phone call would you?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
But I was like 15, right? So I think that was for Casper.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
Well, no one should have been intimidated by me then. It was, you know, just a teenage rest. But do you remember that we lived in the same building in New York also?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
No, it was really cool. But I wanted to live there because I had just read The Alienist. And they talked about how there was the tunnel between the building and O'Neill's.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
No. I asked a lot of the janitors and stuff, and they were like, what are you talking about? I was like, you know, the tunnel.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
I rode in the elevator with them one day and she was really the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen in real life.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
And Francois Nars, like all these crazy, crazy big people. They used to be in the gym with my mother. And my mother would be like, I had a wonderful talk with Christy today when I was on the treadmill.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
I was not. I was a total wreck. I was in like Garbage Pail Kids style moment.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
Yeah. No, I had decided that if I was going to be that ugly anyway, that I was going to dress as hideously as possible. So I wore like a lot of conflicting colors and really big pants and men's underwear and just was my whole style, Garbage Pail Kids.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
You did. No, but coming on your show and being able to promote myself and my work on your show and your support, because you can say, like, no, I'm not having that asshole on my show.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Christina Ricci
I don't know. I mean, it's been there. I haven't visited since the ceremony. I kind of thought about bringing stuff to my star, like my favorite flowers and a candle. But then I was like, is that weird?