Molly Ringwald
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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So anyway, I think to get back to that, I would rather sort of look at that and sort of acknowledge that. So that it tells me something about what it is that I want and how I want the rest of my life to unfold.
At all. I really do – feel like, you know, that people should have a little bit of real life, real world experience so that they can really appreciate this incredible gift of education.
Yeah. It's I think.
Did you feel self-conscious being older, being an older student?
But you kind of got over it. I mean, I kind of felt, well, I'm not going to speak for you, but did you feel like you were maybe self-conscious at first, but then once you got into it, that kind of went away? Or did you just feel self-conscious all the time?
Yeah, I don't know. I have to I have to figure that out. My my kids, you know, my 15 year olds are already looking at colleges and my and my and Matilda is is in college. So I kind of have, you know, sort of poked my, you know, like I look at who the professors are. What are the classes I would like to take? I don't know. It might be something that I'll do one day.
Yeah. Does that ever go away though? I mean, that I totally relate to that, but I don't, I feel like maybe I've, I've had like moments where I was like, I have moments. I have experiences. But I don't think that that feeling of fumbling through life ever really goes away. At least it hasn't for me. Yeah, I think they're moments.
I feel like if one is searching and if one is not complacent and is... searching, then you're always fumbling.
Oh, I've always been a writer. I mean, that was – you know, there were – I would say there were three main things that I was really interested and focused on as a kid, and that was acting, singing, and writing. I also danced. Oh. But dancing, you know, ballet, and, you know, it was – I wasn't as obsessed with that as I was with the acting and singing and writing.
And I think it's because I've just always been obsessed with people and why we do what we do. Do you have an answer? I'm still finding out, but I feel like that's what makes me want to write or take on other people or personas, you know, because of this desire I have to understand humankind. It's just my obsession. And I don't know that that's ever going to go away.
Yeah.
I mean, it sounds lofty when I hear it back to me. Oh, sorry. I think it's really interesting. I mean, you know, human condition. Yeah. What makes us human? You know, what makes us make the same mistakes over like what makes us betray each other? What makes us betray ourselves? You know, I was just reading a memoir of a galley of Ioni skies.
And it was really interesting because we've had these lives that have sort of like that were happening at the same time. And like we were both actors and we both – you know, dated the same people, you know, I dated Adam Horowitz, you know, she married him and, you know, but she writes very honestly and openly about, you know, in her case, infidelity.
you know, and, and, you know, being unfaithful to somebody that she deeply, deeply loved and, you know, and then compartmentalizing and, you know, um, and, uh, you know, I mean, I had so much respect for, and her writing about it. And it's very painful for her because she lost, you know, I mean, she's okay. She's married to somebody that's great. Um, Ben Lee, um, but like, why do we do that?
Why, you know, and, and we all do like everybody, you know, it's just part of the human condition, but it's, it's just a, it's something that I want to understand. And not just that, there's so many things that we do that I want to understand. And I think that's why I'm drawn to, to writing and to, and to acting, um, to be able to inhabit a character, um,
you know, just really be inside of a character, you get to, in a way, feel what that character is feeling. And it's impossible to not understand if you felt it. It's weird. I've never really talked about it in that way.
Um, well, I, I wrote this piece because, um, because, um, I'm still figuring out, I'm still really interested in, in my own feelings about it. And it became very apparent to me when, um, when I had my own kids and, um, and I wanted to show them, you know, my work and, um, yeah. And then when that happened, um, it, it, uh,
you know, you can't help but see everything from a different angle to, you know.
Well, I guess both because I wrote two, well, I've written a few pieces for the New Yorker now, but the first one I wrote was right after, I think right when, you know, the second wave of Me Too happened. Right.
So my first piece that I wrote was All the Other Harveys because everything was so focused on Harvey Weinstein. And I wanted to say, you know, no, it's not just Harvey Weinstein. it's a lot of people in a lot of different businesses, but I, it was the first time that I had spoken a little bit about my own experiences, um, as you know, being a young actress growing up in Hollywood.
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