Winona Ryder says harassment motivated her departure from cinema: ‘It was wild’

Actress Winona Ryder, 52, said in an interview with Esquire UK that she suffered harassment in the mid-2000s and that this led to her leaving Hollywood.

“I had some difficult experiences with some people who were sexually harassing me,” she told the publication.

“And then it happened again when I was in my early thirties. It wasn’t an assault, but it was incredibly inappropriate. It was savage. I was lucky because I was well-known, so it didn’t happen as much as it might have if I had been a struggling actress,” she said.

According to her, many people who frequented the film sets at the time would show up drunk and hit on her, and that dealing with it “felt very invasive” when people touched her.

“I think in retrospect it really soured things. [em relação a fazer filmes]. All the great actors have always told me that when something stops being amazing, you have to leave,” he added to the website.

In “Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice,” the sequel to Tim Burton’s 1988 classic that opens this week, Winona once again plays the role of Lydia Deetz, who is now older and has Jenna Ortega as her daughter. The cast also includes Michael Keaton reprising the role of the most friendly ghost in cinema.