Winona Ryder is making the rounds to promote her new Netflix series, Stranger Things. It’s a perfect moment to remind the fickle public that at one time, she was of such zeitgeist-y importance that Audrey Hepburn may have given Ryder the clothes off her back. Speaking to The New York Times, Daniel Waters, who wrote the Heathers screenplay, described Ryder as old Hollywood’s last vestige. “She has all that glamour that’s lost today, that’s been pummeled by Instagram and TMZ,” he said. “She inspires a kind of cultist love that I don’t see other ingenues inspiring. Audrey Hepburn used to send her clothes.”

It’s true. In 2014, multi-hyphenate teen Tavi Gevinson showed T Magazine a pair of gloves, noting that they “belonged to Audrey Hepburn, who then gave them to Winona Ryder when she was 18, who I know and who gave them to me this weekend.” A totally normal hand-me-down when you’re an actress that symbolizes an entire era.

It was an apropos passing of the torch considering that, at that time, Ryder’s career was languishing. Despite a brief spike due to 2010’s Black Swan, she was not working. That changed when David Simon fought to cast Ryder in last year’s HBO mini-series “Show Me a Hero,” and now she plays the distressed mother of a missing child in the 80s period piece series Stranger Things, which dropped on Netflix today. Early reviews are [positive] (http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/07/stranger-things-netflix-review).

Since Ryder hasn’t done that much recently (and to illustrate how rusty your media training can get when you’re out of the celebrity racket for a long enough) questions veered to a topical story to which she is tangentially related. Remarking on the comment she gave to Time about Amber Heard’s domestic-abuse charges against Johnny Depp, to whom Ryder was once engaged, The Times writes:

“The whole thing is so weird. I was 17—that’s almost a quarter century ago. But I gave an honest answer.” Her response—that Mr. Depp was “never abusive” to her—was taken by some as coming to his defense. “Maybe it was naive of me to not realize it was going to feed the monster. But I’m not going to backpedal on it. You can’t win. If I’d said, ‘No comment,’ it would have been, ‘Ryder is silent,’” she boomed in a deep, suspicious voice. “‘What’s she hiding?’”

But perhaps the best revelation in this new interview is Ryder’s perspective on the shoplifting incident, which happened nearly 15 (15!) years ago: “Look, I think I’ll forever be associated with that. Definitely. [ . . . ] In the grand scheme of things it wasn’t exactly the crime of the century.” In other words: Free Winona.