Winona Ryder has revealed she met with director Michel Gondry for Kate Winslet’s role in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

The Beetlejuice actress admitted that she “lost a lot of parts” in the ’90s and early 2000s because she was too much of a celebrity and therefore a distraction within a film.

Citing an example in an interview with Esquire, Ryder recalled her meeting with Gondry when he was casting his 2004 sci-fi romance.

“It was such a brilliant script and we were at this little restaurant and people kept coming up to me and there was a random paparazzi guy outside, which was kind of unusual for me, but I just remember (Gondry’s) face, and trying to convince him that this isn’t normal, and I know it’s not normal,” she shared.

“There was baggage… Trying to convince someone to ignore the noise around me was tough. I saw it in their eyes. I lost a lot of parts because of that,” she continued. “I’m not in any way complaining. But there was this whole time when I felt like I would be a distraction, as well. I got it. Certainly, in the 1990s, I became aware of that.”

In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Winslet played Clementine, a woman with blue hair who undergoes a memory erasure procedure to forget about Joel, played by Jim Carrey, after the end of their romantic relationship. The Titanic star was nominated for an Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe for her performance.

Ryder noted that she had “a great run” of films between 1988 and 1998 but eventually felt like she was being associated with “the kind of movies that they didn’t make any more” because she didn’t gravitate towards mainstream blockbusters.

The Heathers actress can soon be seen in Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which will open in cinemas on 6 September.

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