In “Heathers,” Ryder played Veronica Sawyer, who is involved in her high school’s mean girl clique. She becomes romantically involved with JD Dean (Christian Slater), who goes on a revenge tour by killing his classmates and staging their deaths as suicides.

Winona Ryder has been in a lot of beloved movies over the years, but every actor has a project or two that got away. As we get ready to see her wrap up her role in Stranger Things Season 5, the actress has shared that one of her early (and generation-defying) movies, Heathers, actually led her to miss out on working opposite Marlon Brando.

Winona Ryder recalls how her work in the 1988 dark comedy film, Heathers, had impacted her career. Speaking to Elle UK, the actor reminisces about that phase in her career, and claims that she lost an opportunity to work with the legendary Marlon Brando in an ambitious film due to her association with the teenage dark comedy film.