Christina Ricci: I Still Audition For Movies

NEW YORK (August 15, 2006) — She co-starred with Charlize Theron in “Monster” and Johnny Depp in “Sleepy Hollow.” But Christina Ricci says she still auditions for movies.

Ricci, 26, fought hard for the role of anxiety-ridden Rae, a victim of childhood sexual abuse, in “Black Snake Moan,” written and directed by Craig Brewer (writer/director of “Hustle & Flow”).

Samuel L. Jackson co-stars as Lazarus, a farmer and blues musician who tries to help her.

She is chained half-naked to a radiator throughout much of the film, due for release in February.

“… my agent started inundating Craig Brewer with photo shoots I had done that are pure sex shots,” Ricci says with a laugh in an interview in the September issue of Premiere magazine.

“I have to say that I still audition for movies,” she says. “I don’t really have as much control over my career as others would like to pretend that I do.”

As for huge commercial stardom, Ricci, whose screen credits also include roles in “The Addams Family,” “Buffalo ‘66” and “The Opposite of Sex,” says: “I don’t think that’s ever going to happen for me.”

She tells the magazine: “My agent will pull up a picture of me blond, fat, thin, whatever. I know that had I been thinner at the time when my indie movies were hitting, I could’ve been in a much better position in my career, but I kind of like where I am.”

Her upcoming films include the ensemble war drama “Home of the Brave” and the fairy tale “Penelope,” about a girl cursed with a pig’s nose who must learn to love herself to overcome her affliction.