Z zelda fitzgerald7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() When Ricci appears in the doorframe, a record blaring from a phonograph stops with a scratch and everyone goes silent as she slurs in a molasses-thick Southern drawl, “If y’all don’t mind, I’d like my new husband to myself now.” The Fitzgeralds’ destructive love has been well chronicled, but this scene, like the rest of the new series, is a one-woman biographical burlesque: Hey, Zelda lets it all hang out! She doesn’t care what anyone thinks! This is a Zelda who embodies the “well-behaved women seldom make history” bumper-sticker ethos that dubs certain women of the past as “badasses” in the rearview. “But I guess they didn’t do as much because I’ve heard from people that it remains extremely large.” She’s right: the merkin is ridiculous, an instant sight gag. “I wanted them to digitally reduce it,” she told an interviewer. To spare you the click, Ricci felt that her merkin was too big. I was not surprised by this scene, but only because I came to it mentally prepared a week before, the headline “Christina Ricci Has Feelings About Her Zelda Fitzgerald Merkin” had flashed across my screen. Well, that’s not entirely true: she is wearing a gold bracelet, a black hair ribbon, and a huge brunette pubic wig. ![]() Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Christina Ricci, who plays a newly married nineteen-year-old Zelda, in 1920, appears in a doorway of a crowded hotel suite completely nude. In the fifth episode of “Z: The Beginning of Everything,” the new Amazon drama about the lives of F. ![]()
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