Winona Ryder has revealed that she has a bit of a gift when it comes to spotting emerging talent, and that she had made a note of both Sadie Sink and Timothée Chalamet’s names years before she worked with them.
If you need reminding, Winona teamed up with Timmy for an iconic Super Bowl commercial back in 2021, where he played Edgar Scissorhands — the son of her character in the 1990 movie Edward Scissorhands.
Meanwhile, Winona stars alongside Sadie in the Netflix series Stranger Things, which Sadie joined in the second season.
Speaking about her commercial with Timothée, she said: “He was really something special, and guess what? I remembered him from Homeland Season 2. He’s, like, the vice president’s son, who I think dies in the explosion. And I wrote his name down.”
And Winona’s eye for talent doesn’t stop there. She added: “I am telling you, I know. I wrote Sadie Sink’s name down when I saw her on The Americans in, like, one scene. I was like: ‘This girl… There’s something about this girl.’”
Winona has been incredibly vocal about her relationship with her young costars on her recent press tour for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, recently telling the Los Angeles Times that she is dismayed by the younger generation of actors’ apparent lack of respect for movie history.
Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, she said that Jenna is like the younger version of her, explaining: “Only because she has the same reverence for film, we share that religiously.”
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice premiered at the Venice Film Festival last week and will be released in theaters across the US and UK on Friday, September 6.