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If it werent forWinona Ryder, wed have no Troy Dyer at least, not as we know him.
Winona believed in me.
Winona got me this job this job changed the trajectory of my career entirely.
I was like, Who isBen Stiller?
You just worked with Scorsese and youre gonna work withthis clown?
YetReality Bitesperseveres as a 90s artifact of Gen-X-dom, never mind that its concerns are hardly exclusive to post-Boomers.
Michael Medved, of all people, noted as much in his originalNew YorkPostreview of the movie.
This speaks to authenticity: This is Helens story.
It doesnt represent a generation.
So I understand why there was some pushback, because that is a blanket statement: a generation.
A generation is very diverse, with many, many other stories to tell.
Helen was speaking her truth, and I felt that was an unfair pressure to put on the movie.
It made 20 fucking million dollars!
It was made by Universal Studios, so from the beginning, people were suspect.
We went to Berkeley because we thought they were gonna be our people, they would get us …
But they thought,We dont wanna hear from the Man about being cool.
That was a really specific time, the early 90s, Ryder said.
