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 Notably, child actress Ariel Winter, who plays Trixie’s younger self in the film, is eerily reminiscent of Christina back in her child star days, which is not lost on the former child star. “That’s always a weird thing, because I’m like, ‘Well, but people already know what I looked like when I was nine.’ You know what I mean?” Ricci remarks, “Sometimes, people will choose people who really don’t look like I did. And I’m sort of like, ‘Uh, OK.’ You know there’s footage out there of me, alright? But in this case, they chose a girl whose like, ‘Yeah, she pretty much looks like me.’ She looks like Trixie.” Christina’s character of Trixie is a mystery in itself and how she fits in so easily with the racing world around Speed Racer. We attempted to ask the actress if she could figure out for us how Trixie fits into the scheme of things and whether she made any attempts to as well. “Use your imagination. Do you need everything handed to you?” Ricci quips, “I don’t need more. They wrote this character and she made sense to me and this is her car culture and you got to think that he raced a lot of rallies in his young racing life and she’s part of the team and that’s what she does. That’s what the whole family’s like.” Another unique aspect of Trixie is how more stylish and overtly feminine she is from Christina’s previous roles. We asked her whether she embraced this aspect of her. “Oh, yes, I did,” she exclaimed, “I was the only girl in it, so I was like their doll. They dressed me up and they sent me out there to do things. It’s fun. When somebody’s using you as their dress-up doll, there’s something about that that’s incredibly endearing.” “It’s interesting,” Ricci continues, “I thought I had very doll-like makeup. I really enjoyed my helicopter outfit. I really liked my Lover’s Lane outfit a lot, too, that was pretty fun.” Trixie’s vehicle of choice in the film is a helicopter. We asked the actress whether she actually drove one in the film. “No,” Christina replies, “But they did teach me what it would look like if I had to drive a helicopter, which was really fun, because you get to lean in and do turns and use your whole body. It was pretty funny.” The rather serendipitous aspect for Ricci in playing an anime heroine character is the rather unusual position of being made into both a doll and an action figure. When we brought up this face, we asked which of the two toys with her likeness she likes more. “I’d love to have an action figure, but I’m perfectly happy with a Barbie,” she replies. Finally, as we closed, we asked Christina to admit whether she was one of the handful who often abused their Barbies as little girls. “Yes, I did,” Ricci ... |
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