Actor Winona Ryder is perhaps best known to Gen Z for her role as a mother in Netflix's Stranger Things. However, do you know that she has been part of even stranger things on cinema? Take, for instance, her 1988 satire Heathers, where she plays a murderous teenager named Veronica Sawyer who kills her collegemates at Westerburg High School with her boyfriend (Christian Slater). In a recent interview with GQ, the Stranger Things star described Heathers, directed by Michael Lehmann from a Daniel Waters screenplay, as "a real masterpiece". Ryder also revealed that she still has some of the things her character uses in the film, such as Sawyer's monocle, Westerburg High School ID, and copies of Heather Chandler's (Kim Walker) note. Calling herself a "fanatic" of the 1988 film, Ryder said that she has the copies of the note because "all the inserts" are in her handwriting.
Winona Ryder also picked some of the best lines from the film that she remembers very well even today, including "I don't patronise bunny rabbits," and "My teenage angst bu****** has a body count." She said that the Heathers screenplay consisted of more than 300 pages at first. "It is like one of my most prized possessions," the actor said, referring to the Heathers screenplay.
Interestingly, Ryder was just a teenager at the time of filming for the 1988 movie and desperately wished to star in it, despite her agent advising her against doing it. Alongside her role in director Tim Burton's film Beetlejuice, Heathers is among Ryder's most popular films, a list that also includes Burton's own Edward Scissorhands, Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula and Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence.
