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8 Surprising Things About Robin Wright
1. Screen envy all began with double features
My friend and I lived on Mulholland Drive in L.A. as kids, and we’d walk down to the local theater in Woodland Hills to see double bills, like Woody Allen’s Sleeper with 2001: A Space Odyssey. That was our big Saturday. Later, I started dancing and modeling, and that led to being cast in a couple of commercials, selling Doritos, Capri-Sun, Maybelline.
2. Her teen modeling portfolio was straight out of Flashdance
I had this big, black, zippered “book” I took on modeling auditions, with pictures of me in leg warmers and a high-cut, one-piece bathing suit—they were so 1983.
3. The Princess Bride cast are her forever family ...
We laughed so hard making that movie; we’d have to cut camera and start over again because it was such a giggle-fest. We took over the hotel, and Cary [Elwes] and I and Rob Reiner and Christopher Guest would all have a potluck dinner. It was going home with people you had fun with to play music, eat good food and commune.
4. ... but there will never be a sequel
Sometime after we hit the 30-year mark, the cast did a Zoom call, and a couple of actors were like, “We’ve been asked if we’ll do a sequel,” and I was like, “Well, a lot of us are going to be in a wheelchair.” So no, that will never happen.
“I want to keep encouraging and amplifying women’s voices, not just in our industry but everywhere. We have to stay on the bandwagon.”
—Robin Wright, 59
5. Fans constantly yell out movie lines to her
I get “Run, Forrest, run!” and little girls who love The Princess Bride say to me, “As you wish.” It’s so sweet. Both films are so timeless.
6. After three divorces, she still believes in love
I’m such a romantic. We rebound, with a belief that it’s still there and it can be achieved and how wonderful when it comes again.
7. She’s very particular about what she doesn’t want in a man
I don’t want to worry anymore. I don’t want to doubt, I don’t want to suspect. I don’t want all those things that we did in our 20s. I can’t imagine feeling again what I felt: jealous, suspicious. You grow out of it like you grow out of a pair of pants.
8. She has a new sweetheart
I just got a black lab puppy, so that’s taking up my whole time, and I just can’t wait to wake up in the morning and be with him and train him. —As told to Natasha Stoynoff
Golden Globe–winning actress Robin Wright stars in, directs and produces The Girlfriend, a series now available on Prime Video.
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