Debra Winger: Why Hollywood won't cast her anymore

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Oh, Debra Winger. There probably wasn't a more reliable and familiar actress in the '80s. After making a splash as Sissy in the 1980 mega-hit Urban Cowboy with John Travolta, Winger romanced Richard Gere in 1982's An Officer and a Gentleman and tore filmgoers' hearts out in the Best Picture-winning 1983 flick Terms of Endearment. For all three of those early successes, Winger received Golden Globe nominations, and Academy Award nominations for the latter two.

With a magnetic, witty, and often unpredictable screen presence, Winger dominated mid-range Hollywood hits of the '80s — appearing in the kinds of movies your parents saw on "date night," because your mom thought Winger seemed approachable, down-to-earth, and "real," and because your dad thought she was cute. (For the record, all of these things are true.) These movies included Legal Eagles, Leap of Faith, and Shadowlands. The last big movie Winger starred in was the 1995 Billy Crystal romantic comedy Forget Paris. And then … she more or less disappeared from the film industry. Where did you go, Debra Winger?

Meanwhile, back at The Ranch

For someone who has taken such a stance against the poor quality of projects that she was a part of, and, later, refused to be a part of whole cloth with her Hollywood sabbatical, it's surprising where Debra Winger chose to make her low-key comeback. In 2016, she joined the cast of The Ranch. Why does that sound familiar? It's that one Netflix original series you always flip past, the one that stars Sam Elliott, Ashton Kutcher, and Danny Masterson … before he was fired for a series of horrific rape allegations.

While it looks like a pleasant enough, laugh-track laden comedy — precisely the kind of thing that one would think Winger would've avoided since her voluntarily hiatus — she told Entertainment Tonight that it fit in with her approach to life. "I hadn't done it before," Winger said, meaning a traditional sitcom.

"This is all about the vibrant quality of making something every week," Winger told The Telegraph. "Coming in on a Friday, getting your script, and by the following Friday you are in front of a live audience. It's really exciting."

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