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Spotlight: Christina Ricci

Actress Christina Ricci, 15, has shared the screen with a lot of spooky types. In the Addams Family movies, she was Wednesday, the glum daughter of creepy Morticia and Gomez Addams. And her last co-stars were Casper and a few unfriendly ghosts. But in two movies coming to theaters in early November, she co-stars with girls, not ghouls.

Christina's character Beth in Gold Diggers is "very simple and very pampered." Then she had to get tough to play the role of 12-year-old Roberta in her other new movie, Now and Then. "Roberta is really strong and angry," says Christina. So will she go back to being creepy on Halloween night? "No," says Christina. "I'll just be myself."

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