, Ryder recalls a scene where she had to cry in the film. Laura Atkinson, who is interviewing the 48-year-old actress, brings up a story she read about where Coppola allegedly shouted at Ryder, «You whore!
You whore!» in an effort to bring her to tears. “To put it in context I’m supposed to be crying,” Ryder remembers of the scene. “Literally, Richard E.
Grant, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu [Reeves]… Francis was trying to get all of them to yell things that would make me cry. But Keanu wouldn’t, Anthony wouldn’t … the more it happened, I was like [she crosses her arms like a sulky teenager and frowns] … It just didn’t work.