Evan Rachel Wood on “bad” girls, inner demons, and good relationships
Asked about her choices of characters in her movies including some “bad girls,” Evan Rachel Wood commented, “One of the reasons I fought for those roles is that I think there are so many things about them that are just human, but people like to label them as weird or bad or wrong because they’re scared of them.
“I don’t consider them bad - they’re girls [laughs]. They’re going to make mistakes, but the films show the repercussions and show that they’re going to learn.”
[Interview magazine, May 2008; photo: Evan Rachel Wood left, with co-star Nikki Reed in "Thirteen" (2003)]
She continues, “A lot of people are made to feel bad for being sad, so on top of already being unhappy, you’re gonna hate yourself for it. I have my own demons, my own pain and darkness, but I choose to embrace them and look at them head-on and deal with them. Then it doesn’t hurt, and you learn from it.”
Asked about her relationship with musician and artist Marilyn Manson, Wood said, “I had been in a place where I was letting too many people dictate who I should be and what I should be, and I was trying to make everybody happy to the point where it was just killing me. I’d completely lost myself.
“It’s kind of funny now that people think I’ve completely changed myself for him, when this is actually the first time in my life that I took a stand and said, This is who I am and this is who I’ve always wanted to be, and I’m finally with somebody who lets me be who I want to be.”
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