Meg Ryan, ex movie darling, is back in the movies again. The mother of Jack Henry, 16, with Dennis Quad, and adopted Daisy True, 3, stars in the new movie "The Women." She sat down with the Los Angeles Times and talked about her career and family.
Ryan, 46, hasn't been working much of late. Instead, she's been traveling. She adopted her second child, Daisy, from China in 2006 and spends most of her time with her and Jack. "I've been famous since I was a teenager. There are a lot of empty spaces in that," she says, elusively. "I just feel like I've been filling in the cracks a little bit. I feel very fortunate, very free. I haven't had any big desire to work."
When talking about Daisy, Meg gets her wallet out and removes the original photograph that the orphanage gave her of Daisy. She says, "I always thought I'd do it. It's such a deliberate act, this adoption, as opposed to getting pregnant. You have to be very, very awake."
Did she feel like she was rescuing a child by adopting her? "It wasn't that. I just saw that face and I knew we were just related. It taught me a lot about any expectations you have in life. Just toss them away. Throw them out."
Kind of like she did with her old lips, I guess. I used to have such a crush on Meg until she went and fucked up her lips. *sigh*
By the way, "The Women" also stars Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, and Jada Pinkett Smith, and the film opens today. The critics are blasting the shit out of it. In fact, some critics are saying that "The Women" is SO bad it sets back Chick Flicks several hundred years. I'm not even making that up. Rotten Tomatoes is currently scoring the movie with a miserable 7% freshness rating. That's like "Ishtar" bad.
Some snippets of the reviews?
The L.A. Times: "It's hard to say what's sadder, that The Women's intended audience had to wait 14 years for a film like this or that that long wait has been almost for naught."
Filmcritic.com: "No cliché, no matter how it screams and pleads for mercy, makes it out of this baby untapped."
Minneapolis Star Tribune: "Despite its proud legacy and promising cast, The Women is a miscarriage of comedy."
New York Daily News: "Is it an exaggeration to call The Women the worst movie of the year? Well, yeah, probably. But it may be the most disappointing, given all the effort that went into it."
The Times (U.K.): "A costly and bemusing disaster. Dull is too kind a word."
Yeah, I'll be rushing out to see THAT. No question. *cough*
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