Molly Ringwald
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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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The second piece that I wrote, um, was about looking at the breakfast club and those movies that I did with John Hughes, um, through the me too lens. Um, and you know, It was really a hard article to write because, you know, I wouldn't have the career that I have if it weren't for those movies. And I feel like I have a lot of privilege, you know, being in those.
I don't want to come across as, you know, poor me. You know, I'm very cognizant of the fact that people have much... much more challenging dealing with much bigger issues than than me. But it's still you know, it's it's it's still a lot to grapple with. And I also really wanted to be very
careful and not I didn't want it to be seen as as condemning them at all because I feel like those those movies still mean a lot to people and they still have so many redeeming qualities and you know the over the the overarching message I think is something that's very positive for kids to watch do you think they reflected the culture more or shaped the culture more
I think that they reflected John Hughes's experience in a very white, almost segregated part of Chicago. You know, I say kind of segregated because it wasn't officially segregated, but I mean, let's face it, our... I grew up looking back on it in a very segregated way.
I mean, in the elementary school that I went to in Sacramento, two people of color that were in that grade, and I remember it because I was looking, because the music that I sang with my father was jazz music, and all of the great jazz performers and singers were black. And so... But I didn't see that reflected in my school, you know? And this was like growing up in the 70s, you know?
And so I feel like John's experience was, you know, that that was really his experience. And he grew up in a not very diverse racial, not very racially diverse. And yet people...
have told me, you know, a lot of black people, a lot of, you know, my friend Ruben Toledo, who is from Cuba, you know, so many people have told me how much they relate to this experience of watching The Breakfast Club, that to them it was, you know, so I guess we're all avatars sometimes. Mm hmm.
Yeah, I think so. Although, I mean, nobody's going to remake The Breakfast Club because they don't, they legally can't. It's like, you know, J.D. Salinger, you know, nobody can make it. Catch her in the rye. I think that's going to be the case with The Breakfast Club. But even so, I feel like you couldn't make that movie now. Yeah. Because it really does not represent America.
You know, it would have to be more, you know, diverse, racially diverse, I think.
You could tell the story, but it would be a different story.
Okay. Oh, interesting. I mean, that would be something that I would be more interested to watch anyway than somebody just remaking, you know, The Breakfast Club. You know, I feel like it would be much more interesting to see a Breakfast Club-like movie that represents today. I want to ask you, you just, I don't know if it's finished yet, but you produced the Amanda Knox.
I feel like it's it was a little when people ask me what it was like, that whole experience really felt like being swept up in a wave.
And sometimes, you know, I love the water. And there's sometimes when you're like riding a wave and it just feels like, wow, you know, it feels it feels great. But then, like, if you move the wrong way, suddenly you're, like, upside down and you have, like, water in your nose and in your throat and you, like, think, am I going to die and I can't breathe and this is humiliating.
Because when I stand up, my whole ass is going to be covered with sand. Oh, I know that whole thing. That's what it feels like. It's, you know, it's great. And it's like and then in like in a second, it's not great, you know, but then you write yourself and then it can be great again.
Did I have a Harvey experience? Well, I've had I've had many Harvey experiences with different people. at a young age and I'm still processing in, you know, I've processed it in a private way and And eventually I'm going to be able to talk about it and write about it. But it's still—I'm still grappling.
Yeah. It's, um, it's, it's very hard to, um, like you said, to feel like you, you're supposed to take a stand and that, you know, you're supposed to take a stand and it's supposed to be very clear black or white. Um, and, and, and nothing is for me, at least that, you know, there, there's been, there's been nuance and, and, um, And it's hard for people to understand that.
I think it's hard for all of us to understand that we all want answers. I think that's why one of the reasons why true crime is so fascinating for people is because they get to the end and then they find out who did it and everyone can go to bed because they caught the bad guy until the next day and then they have to do it again. We want answers. We want everything to be very clear.
And unfortunately, I feel like You know, it's not always. There is nuance. And I'm okay with that. You know, I mean, I think the older I get, the more... The more interested I am at looking through all these different lenses and to understanding the good and the bad. And, you know, I definitely believe that we all have a shadow side and we also are able to to radiate light.
And and and I'm OK with that. You have a lot of wisdom, Molly.
So thank you. That's really nice to hear.
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