Yellowjackets' Christina Ricci explains how she dealt with paparazzi as a young star
Yellowjackets star Christina Ricci has explained how she dealt with the paparazzi in the early part of her career.
The star, who plays Misty Quigley on the thriller series, made her acting debut at the age of nine in 1990's Mermaids, with her role as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family a year later shooting her to worldwide fame.
Though subsequent roles in Casper and Now and Then established Ricci as a teen idol, the actor shared on the Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend podcast that being thrust into the limelight at such a young age posed its challenges.
'I did not enjoy that, just because people [the paparazzi], they'll follow you all the way home. And I lived by myself, and that felt very threatening,' recalled Ricci, before she detailed a ploy that she used to throw the press off her trail.
'There was a liquor store on the corner. Rick was this guy who always worked there - he was always smoking a cigarette. He's the only person I would ever let call me Chris.
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'If anyone ever followed me, I'd pull into the liquor store and go tell Rick, and [he] would come out and chase them off.'
Ricci, who has also starred in Wednesday, continued by explaining that she 'never really felt famous' and was never 'comfortable' during the early part of her career, describing the phase as 'something I had to navigate'.
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'I played this mental game where I pretended that my dad was just this doctor that everybody loved in town,' she recalled. '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. That everybody just really wished me well, and it worked.'
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