Molly Ringwald
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110 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Molly Ringwald’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I had no idea. Every time.
So it's sort of that. I have many of those that just stay in my closet and I can't get rid of them because I think they're fantastic. But every time I put them on, not today.
Okay.
Well, you did.
I mean, you know, every one of our generation did. And even generations beyond because those movies that I did are such touchstones, you know. And there hasn't been a lot of – I mean, I haven't really seen a lot of projects – That have managed to say what those movies said in the way that they said them yet. I mean, you know, there was Freaks and Geeks, which I think was great.
And, you know, I don't know, but there's just something about those movies that just sort of. You know, have spoken to generations and everybody that, you know, that's going through that in high school, you know, kids are going to still be bullied and they're still going to feel out of place. And, you know, and those movies just kind of, you know, particularly The Breakfast Club.
even though they're flawed, you know, which I've written extensively about. Yeah, written very well.
It was based on Matt because Matt came to Matt's been my best friend since I was, I think, 10 years old, since my family moved from Sacramento to Los Angeles. OK. And he was one of my you know, I was still an Annie when we became friends. And then when I went to high school or junior high, actually, or middle school, we called it junior high.
I was in the seventh grade and Matt was in the ninth grade. And that's really sort of when we became friends and and went steady, although Matt is. And has always been gay, but he wasn't out at that time. Your best-dressed boyfriend. Yes. But, yeah, so he – which is one of the reasons why I always say that Ducky's gay because he was based on Matt.
Matt came to visit me while I was filming The Breakfast Club. And John Hughes had taken us – he would always take us, you know, kids, me, Michael, Anthony Michael Hall, and – to Kingston Mines, which is an old, you know, which I think is still there, you know, to see Junior Wells, these great blues performers. Anyway, there was this band and they were playing Roll Over Beethoven.
And it was this, and I was dancing with Matt, but it was this extended version that went on for 20 years. And Matt kept saying, like, can we stop? And I was like, no, no, no. It was like a pride thing. We had to dance all the way through. And then based on the interaction of me and Matt on the dance floor, that's what made John write Pretty in Pink. Oh, my gosh. And that character, yeah.
Yeah, he wrote that just based on a headshot. He had moved agencies briefly from CAA to ICM, which I believe is one agent. I mean, they combine now. But at the time, they were very, you know, separate. And yeah, and as a new client, they gave... him headshots of all their clients. And I was, yeah, I was at ICM after my first movie, which was Tempest.
And over 4th of July weekend, he put that up on his Bolton board above his computer station. And, you know, cause he was a early adopter computer. And yeah, it was, and he wrote this movie. And so when it came time to cast it and they said, you know, who do you want?
I guess, I mean, he did tell me the story when we first met. I met him, you know, originally he had written The Breakfast Club and then he wrote Sixteen Candles After. In fact, he was in the middle of casting The Breakfast Club locally in Chicago with local Chicago actors. In fact, John Cusack was going to play John Bender And Joan Cusack was going to play Allison.
And I don't know who the other people that were cast. And then he wrote Sixteen Candles and then gave it to the studio. And the studio loved it and decided to do that first. And then at the end of Sixteen Candles, he asked me and Anthony Michael Hall to be in The Breakfast Club. Right. So in terms of did I know that I was a muse, I mean, he told me that story.
But, you know, when you're that age, I mean, I had nothing really to compare it to. I hadn't done – I mean, I'd done more movies, actually, than John had at that point. Oh, my. Really? Yeah, because Sixteen Candles was his directorial debut. He wrote Mr. Mom. He wrote Vacation. But he didn't – direct those movies. So I had done a few movies. I did Tempest.
I did, you know, the great space hunter adventures in the forbidden zone and 3D. And then I did a couple of other things. So, I mean, I had actually had more experience, but I was still only 15 years old. So I didn't have a lot of life experience. And I, so I didn't have a lot to, you know, it didn't, it didn't seem that strange to me. I mean, now it does. Right.
Yeah, it's peculiar. It's complimentary. I mean, it always felt incredibly complimentary. But yeah, looking back on it, there was something a little peculiar.
And so when I disparage... It's definitely complex. And it's something that I turn over in my head a lot and try to figure out how... That all affected me. And I still have, I feel like I'm still processing all of that. And I probably will until the day I die.
I think that I have had sort of varying degrees of fame my entire life, you know, because I've been a performer since I was three. I mean, literally, since I was three years old, I was on stage with my father, singing with my father, and then also acting. My first play was The Grass Harp, which was written by Truma Capote, as a matter of fact. Wow. I didn't have any lines.
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