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the following year, her role as Princess
Buttercup in the 1987 comedic fairy tale
and love story The Princess Bride earned
Wright the attention shedeserved. Amod-
erate success at theboxoce, thefilmhas
sincebecomeacultclassicand isrankedat
number50onBravo’s100FunniestMovies
listand88ontheAmericanFilmInstitute’s
100GreatestLoveStories inFilm.
Aswesittalking,thehigh-pitchedzzzing
ofanelectricsawprovidesaconstant,albeit
soft,soundtrack.“It’ssonoisyhereforbeing
such apeaceful community,” saysWright,
gettingup fromherchairandwalkingover
to a small bedsidewindow, where the ad-
ditionalclatterofhammersandbackhoes is
drifting in. Sheglancesoutsideand shakes
herhead. “Go to lunch, youguys,” she says,
andthencomesbackandcurlsupwhereshe
hadpreviouslybeen,one legtuckedbeneath
her body. She pours herself more water.
“Thosesawsaredrivingmecrazy.”
In theearly1990s,Wright landedwhat’s
probablyher best-known role: that of the
emotionallydamagedJennyCurran in the
Academy Award–winning Best Picture
Forrest Gump. Seriously, mention the ac-
tressbynametosomepeopleandtheirfaces
goblank.SayJenny from ForrestGump and
those samemoviegoerswill startproclaim-
ing their love forher.With ForrestGump’s
critical and commercial success,Wright’s
career catapulted to awhole new level of
stardom. But rather than follow that path
onward,theactressoptedinsteadforamuch
lessHollywood-traditionalroute.
CLOCKWISEFROMLEFT: WrightwithPageMose-
leyon SantaBarbara;withKevinCostner in Message
inaBottle;withKeanuReeves in ThePrivateLives
ofPippaLee; inRobertRedford’s TheConspirator
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