Christina Ricci Sheds Inhibitions, Clothes For New Roles

Posted Thursday, March 6, 2003 at 4:57 PM Central

by John Couture

For a girl who got her start playing innocent roles in Mermaids and The Addams Family, Christina Ricci is certainly making a new name for herself lately with more racier roles. Not only will she explore new territory by playing a depression-addled music critic in Prozac Nation and the lesbian lover of a serial killer in Monster, but she'll actually appear nude in both films, a first for Ricci.

And while her nudity is reportedly brief in next week's Prozac Nation, Ricci claims there's no brevity in her Monster role which is still filming. "I'm pretty f****** naked. My agent persuaded me to go for it. She keeps saying, 'You have beautiful breasts'."