Evan Rachel Wood on releasing her authentic voice
In a recent magazine profile, Evan Rachel Wood talks about feeling liberated by her relationship with Marilyn Manson to express her real identity.
Here is the short profile :
Evan Rachel Wood is a natural rebel, says Rachel Syme in TheDailybeast.com. In 2006, when she was 19, the actress set tongues wagging by dating the goth rocker Marilyn Manson, who was twice her age. Soon, she was emulating his flamboyant appearance.
Dying her hair flame-red, she began wearing dark makeup and revealing dresses, with Victorian accessories. Rumors swirled that Manson was remaking her in his own image.
Nonsense, says Wood.
“If you knew me, it didn’t come as a shock. I had dressed like that on my own. I would want to do something really dark or vintage or over-the-top for an award show, but my people would be like, ‘It makes you look old, let’s keep you young and fresh and light and fluffy.’
“And I hadn’t gotten my voice yet so I was just like, ‘Okay, you’re right, I suck, I’ll wear what you say.’”
But Manson liberated her. “I found somebody who appreciated all those things about me that I thought were wrong. He liked the music I liked, the way I dressed, the people I hung out with.”
Though the two are no longer together, Wood is grateful for the experience. “People didn’t understand my relationship, so they didn’t like it. But who’s to tell you how to live? I lived so long the way people wanted me to, that when I broke out of that, I broke out with a vengeance.”
From Evan Rachel Wood’s inner rebel, The Week mag., July 10, 2009
Photo from Whatever Works (2009)
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