Molly Ringwald
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110 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
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 just toddled on stage. You know, when you do community theater, when you perform on stage, you sort of become like a celebrity. So I was a celebrity in, you know, in my small town in a way. You know, I was sort of, you know, I was known as the world's youngest jazz singer, you know, or that was what they wrote about. So I was written about and, you know,
It was a sort of fame, a degree of fame, you know, and then it was sort of like I everything that I did, I sort of became like a little bit more well known. You know, you move to Los Angeles and then, of course, nobody knew who I was until I started to to do stuff. But I feel like I've you know, I've never known. a world where I haven't been a little famous.
At a certain point, then I became really, really famous. You know, I feel like when you're on the cover of Time magazine, that sort of, which we both have been. Yes, I concur. Yeah, I think when it gets to that point, then you sort of, yeah, then it becomes like a level of fame that I personally don't feel that comfortable with.
You know, even though I was happy with the movies I was doing and I was, you know, having, I loved the work of actually doing it but but the all the fame and the notoriety you know outside of that I found it really overwhelming and scary and it changed me a bit you know it made me a very um I mean
Maybe I would have been this, maybe this is just who I am, but there was a part of it that I felt like I became very closed and very self-protective in a way that I think a lot of people sort of misinterpreted for, you know, people thought that I was, you know, aloof or stuck up or, you know, any, and it wasn't, it was, it was, it was fear and being very self-protective. Yeah.
How, like, roughly how old were you when you're talking about that?
Yeah. I was chased by the paparazzi, and they trapped me in a revolving door in a hotel. And the flashes kept going on. And you know how disorienting flashes are. But then I was also in a... revolving door that just kept turning, turning, turning. And that was terrifying for me. And still to this day, when I go to a red carpet event or anything, and there's the flash, my heart starts to race.
And, and I get like, Yeah. I get scared. I just, I, you know, and I don't, and I've done it enough now and, you know, nothing, you know, touch wood, nothing bad's going to happen. It's just people taking my picture. But yeah, there's something really frightening there for me at that, at that age, because I was still like a baby. Yeah.
Yeah, exactly. You do this funny, cute, adorable thing and your parents applaud you and yeah. And every kid does that, which is why I think so many kids are just natural actors. Right. The tricky thing is holding on to that, you know, if you continue acting, being able to hold on to that sort of childlike joy of performing for your parents.
and still be able to not feel ridiculous or self-conscious or, you know, because that was really hard for me as I got older, you know, that I thought there was a moment where I thought, is this just ridiculous what I do? Is it like ridiculous? Is this shameful? You know, just because I feel like there is something about, you know, acting that's always an actor's
And I'm speaking for myself here, you know, just like, oh, please love me.
Yeah, but actors, you know, actors especially, this is what we do. We're like, you know. great you know look at me yeah but I just sort of have to face the fact that that that is part of that's a big part of who I am is you know acting performing you know eliciting a response from people and and hopefully making people feel a connection with that you definitely do
You were one of the first people who came to one of my jazz gigs. Oh, really? Yeah. Wow. I didn't know that. I mean, back when, I think it was like, it was somewhere in Malibu. It was really far in Malibu. Oh, I remember. And it was like one of my first gigs that I did with my jazz band. Yep. And I remember I was trying to get pregnant with my twins. And so I was like injecting myself in the back.
Oh my gosh. With like hormone, you know, medication. And I thought, well, it is kind of jazzy because I am like shooting up in a bathroom, but it's like. It's a hormone to help me get pregnant. There's a good movie in there somewhere with that sort of metaphor. But yeah, you were like the only person who made the trek out there to see me. And I was so grateful.
Yeah, I feel like. It wasn't so much that I was trying to hold on to who I was. I was like becoming who I was. I didn't even know who I was at that point. And I think it's really, really hard to figure that stuff out in public. Yeah. You know, it's it's really hard to go through that in the public eye and have and, you know, because we're all supposed to make mistakes.
You know, growing up is about making mistakes and learning from them and and saying, oh. I thought maybe this was who I was, but that's not who I am. This is who I am. You know, figuring that out and everybody goes through that. But to go through it in in public is, you know, it's a it's a difficult thing. I mean, it's why I moved to Paris. I didn't realize it at the time.
But there is something in me that just said, I have to, I have to get out and get away from everything to, to sort of, you know, figure out who I am and what I want out of life. And, you know, do I want to act? Do I want to continue acting who I, who I wanted to be? And it was possible for me to do that in Paris because at that time I wasn't,
really well known because those movies well now they they have reached a cult status there as well but at the time in the 90s um but they weren't so i was able to sort of live a somewhat anonymous life there was that refreshing or did it feel scary in some ways both i mean it was it was Yeah, it was refreshing. It was like I could breathe.
I could walk around and like just I felt like I had my breathing had become very shallow because I was so, you know, like what's going to happen? And, you know, am I how how am I going to, you know, hold on to that? You know, once you become really famous, there's this thing that you're supposed to like, you know, you're supposed to stay there.
in the same place and you're supposed to like hold on to that thing, you know? And it's like, I, I didn't know anything about that except for the fact that it felt like a lot of pressure. And, um, and, and it felt like I, if I didn't, if my movie didn't succeed at the box office or if whatever, that I was letting a lot of people down. And that's a lot. That's a lot for a young person, I think.
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