Ashley Judd (1993) Five Days Into Her Film Career | Dini Petty

Ashley Judd, star of Kiss the Girls and Double Jeopardy, sits down with Dini Petty on October 13, 1993. Ruby in Paradise, her first starring role, had opened in theaters five days earlier. The film had already won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize. She was 25 years old, and the only famous thing about her was her last name. What's here is the woman who became a movie star, not the movie star. A young actress who knew at 7 what she was supposed to do with her life, who almost joined the Peace Corps instead, who reads 5,000 pages of scripts a month from an apartment in Hollywood, and who drove from Nashville to Florida alone to research a character because she needed to know exactly what Ruby was leaving behind. She talks about Naomi, the diagnosis, the remission. She talks about Wynonna. She talks about what it costs to take yourself seriously when nobody knows your name yet. This conversation aired once, on October 13, 1993, and has not been seen since. CHAPTERS 0:00 Dini introduces the youngest Judd 0:39 "A Judd would never tell a lie" 0:52 Why Wynonna's nickname is Hurricane 1:53 Enrolling in acting class the moment she got to Hollywood 2:28 Naomi's hepatitis C and the remission doctors can't explain 3:20 "Why did you never go into the singing area?" 4:09 Imaginary friends, a belly stuck out by the swimming pool, and a mortified grandmother 4:50 Researching Ruby: the bait shop, cruising Rome, Georgia, the Tasty Freeze 5:50 "You seem so relaxed with this," and why growing up around fame made interviews easy 6:30 "I was afraid that actors' lives were really unsubstantial and immoral" 7:44 The Peace Corps, Hollywood, and "I was going to shrivel up and die" 8:37 Reading 5,000 pages of scripts a month 10:02 How she found Ruby in Paradise, and the phone call that changed everything 11:03 The play Busted, Timothy Hutton, and the New York acting community 11:54 The Meisner technique in 25 words or less 13:05 Natural Born Killers: "I kept thinking someone was trying to kill me" 14:25 Dini predicts the Oscar ABOUT THE DINI PETTY SHOW The Dini Petty Show was a Canadian daytime talk show that aired on CTV from 1989 to 1999. Broadcast from Toronto, the show ran for ten years and featured in-depth conversations with Hollywood legends, music icons, politicians, and cultural figures. Dini Petty's warm yet probing interview style earned the show multiple Gemini Award nominations and a loyal audience across Canada. This channel is the official archive of The Dini Petty Show. Most of these interviews have not been seen since their original broadcast. New conversations from the vault are uploaded weekly. Subscribe to never miss a piece of television history. #AshleyJudd #RubyInParadise #NaomiJudd #MeToo #KissTheGirls #DoubleJeopardy #DiniPetty #1990sInterview #RareInterview #HollywoodInterview