Wherever she has been - or not, for that matter - it is refreshing to have her back. It's no secret that I didn't love An Officer And A Gentleman then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent. 'But, in my defence, I never fought about the size of my trailer or things like that it was always about the work.
Even though I loved what I was doing, I didn't always know I could pull it off.'ĭid she take her insecurities out on others, including that nice Mr Gere? 'Oh, I took it out on everybody!' she chuckles. 'Most bad behaviour comes from insecurity. She laughs often and with that familiar throaty abandon. Today, with a new film, Rachel Getting Married, to promote, Winger is, disappointingly, a model of decorum. Hollywood heroine: With Richard Gere in An Officer And A Gentleman She made it known that she couldn't stand another co-star, John Malkovich, with whom she made The Sheltering Sky in 1990, calling him nothing more than a 'catwalk model'.Īnd, apparently, she made one hapless journalist conduct an interview standing up and in the open air, so that if she didn't like the questions she could simply wander off. She is well known for her comments on her fellow actors and her outbursts over the years have made her few friends in the business. She hated every minute of making it, and she famously, and hilariously, likened her co-star Richard Gere to 'a brick wall' and labelled the film's director Taylor Hackford (Mr Helen Mirren) 'an animal'. Winger may have earned her Hollywood heroine stripes in An Officer And A Gentleman, but, unashamedly schmaltzy and sentimental, it was never her type of film. In fact, Winger was looking after her two sons, Noah and Babe Ruth, did some theatre work, spent a year at Harvard University teaching literature and wrote a book of essays. But I was never worried about coming back - or however you want to term it - because I was too busy living my life.' That was her theory and perhaps it was a question she needed both to ask and answer herself. 'I think Rosanna believed that my reason for taking the roles I did was because I wasn't offered bigger ones. That was 2002, and perhaps the most surprising thing about Debra Winger now, is that she is not still spitting feathers about being portrayed in such a way. Then, one day, you wake up and discover that another Hollywood player, the actress Rosanna Arquette, has filmed a documentary about you called Searching For Debra Winger, and is telling all and sundry that it is an exposé about how cruelly Hollywood treats its female stars when they dare to get old. Still, in all that time no one - least of all you - had mentioned anything about being put out to grass. The complicated business of parenting also demands your time, and you discover, to your chagrin, that teenage kids 'have this pesky habit of needing you when they need you, not just when you have time for them'. But you continue working, albeit in less high-profile roles. The years progress, and then you disappear from the big screen in the mid 1990s - or so it seems. Just imagine you are a Hollywood actress - a three times Oscar nominated actress, at that - of a certain age.Īt one point (the one where you were literally swept off your feet, in front of all your colleagues, by a naval officer in a pristine white uniform), practically every woman on the planet wanted to be you. Debra Winger is set to return to the screen alongside Anne Hathaway
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