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Molly Ringwald, star of 1980s hit The Breakfast Club, has revealed she only rewatched the movie recently, and was jarred by some of the themes that were glossed over at the time.

“Sixteen Candles,” “Pretty in Pink” and “The Breakfast Club.”But the budding actress was eager to transition to more mature roles after appearing in those coming-of-age flicks — and she came close to scoring parts in two iconic movies. In an interview with Variety, the new 56-year-old dished on the directors she met at the end of the 1980s, saying: “I got really close on a couple movies. I met with Mike Nichols for ‘Working Girl’ and Jonathan Demme for ‘The Silence of the Lambs,’ but ultimately I was too young.”For “Working Girl,” which was released in 1988, Ringwald was presumably in talks to play plucky young secretary Tess, with the role eventually going to Melanie Griffith.

Todd Gilchrist editor As the star of “Sixteen Candles,” “Pretty in Pink” and “The Breakfast Club,” Molly Ringwald understands why she’s still considered “the patron saint of teenagers.” Commercially successful and critically acclaimed, those films — and her performances — depicted adolescents with an emotional sophistication like few films before them. But Ringwald was bringing that complexity to the screen from her first role in Paul Mazursky’s “Tempest,” and the fact that she’s continued to do so throughout her career is why she’s set to receive the Variety Creative Vanguard Award at the Miami Film Festival on April 6.

on April 3, revealed that she conceived her daughter, Mathilda, with husband Panio Gianopoulos in the dressing room of the Broadway theater Studio 54, which is truly some next-level nepo-baby stuff. Like, imagine being in show business from the literal point of conception. At the time, in 2003, Ringwald was playing Sally Bowles in the musical Cabaret.“It’s so Mathilda to be conceived in such an iconic place,” told the outlet.

perfectly marvelous road to becoming a mom began with one simple place.Ringwald revealed in a new interview with The Times that she conceived her daughter, Mathilda, at Studio 54.The “Sixteen Candles” actress, 56, shares Mathilda, 20, and twins Roman and Adele, 14, with husband Panio Gianopoulos.“I believe that Mathilda was conceived in the dressing room at Studio 54 right at the end of my run playing Sally Bowles in ‘Cabaret’ in 2003,” she said. “It’s so Mathilda to be conceived in such an iconic place.”Ringwald appeared as flapper jazz singer Sally Bowles in the Broadway revival of “Cabaret” from December 2001 until April 2002.The “Secret Life of the American Teenager” alum was 36 when she got pregnant, saying that she “always knew” she wanted a family.

The Breakfast Club actor Molly Ringwald has said the film hasn’t “aged well” in a new interview.The cult classic from director John Hughs turns 40 next year and in a new interview with The Times, Ringwald, who appeared in the film as character Claire alongside Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy, said some elements of the film “haven’t aged well”.“I don’t enjoy watching myself on screen. I only rewatched The Breakfast Club, which came out in 1985, because [my daughter] Mathilda wanted to see it with me,” she said in the interview.“There is a lot that I really love about the movie but there are elements that haven’t aged well – like Judd Nelson’s character, John Bender, who essentially sexually harasses my character.”Bender and Claire share a kiss towards the end of the film, but Bender repeatedly asks Claire about her virginity as well as looking up her skirt at another moment.“I’m glad we’re able to look at that and say things are truly different now,” she added, talking about the scene in a post #MeToo context.Cast member Ally Sheedy has also spoken out about elements in the film before, saying that she “never liked” the scene where her character gets a makeover to make her more attractive.Speaking to The Independent in 2020, Sheedy said: “Listen, it was Hollywood in the Eighties.

Ethan Shanfeld While “The Bear” is currently in production on Season 3, sources confirm to Variety that FX is already cooking up Season 4, which will film back to back with the third season. FX renewed the Chicago-set restaurant dramedy for Season 3 in November and has not announced a Season 4 renewal. A spokesperson for the network declined to comment.

Andrew McCarthy’s upcoming Hulu documentary about the ’80s-era Brat Pack, of which both Nelson and McCarthy were charter members.“It seems strange to have that subject matter be something for edited entertainment,” Nelson, 64, told Us Weekly while attending the Children Uniting Nations 24th Annual Academy Awards Celebration & Viewing Dinner on March 10 in Beverly Hills.“Also, like, [McCarthy’s] a nice guy,” he continued, “but I hadn’t seen him in 35 years.“And it’s like, I’m not going to [be] like, ‘Hey!’ No, dude.”It was announced in January that McCarthy, 61, was working on the Hulu documentary about the Brat Pack, so dubbed in a 1985 New Yorker magazine article after the cast appeared together in two movies, “The Breakfast Club” and “St. Elmo’s Fire.”The main Brat Pack members were McCarthy, Nelson, Demi Moore, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Mare Winningham, Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer and Ally Sheedy.Fringe members, sometimes included in the group, were Timothy Hutton, Tom Cruise, Nicholas Cage and Sean Penn.McCarthy, Lowe, Moore, Cryer, Sheedy and Estevez, among others, will all be featured in the new project.The documentary will premiere later this year and will be written and directed by McCarthy, whose 2021 memoir was titled “Brat: An ’80s Story.”The group’s name was a play on Frank Sinatra’s early-’60s era Rat Pack, which included Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Dean Martin and Joey Bishop.Nelson confirmed to the outlet that there was a “request” for him to join McCarthy’s Brat Pack documentary, but that he “politely declined” the offer.

Meredith Woerner Deputy Editor, Variety.com The last scandalous reveal in Ryan Murphy’s docudrama “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans” was far more surprising than any of the gossip-filled tales penned by Truman Capote (played by Tom Hollander). The final twist came 32 years after his death when a longtime confidant, Joanne Carson (played in the drama by Molly Ringwald), decided to auction off the writer’s remains to the highest bidder.

William Earl Variety will honor Molly Ringwald with the Variety Creative Vanguard Award at the Miami Film Festival on Saturday, April 6. The award will be for her outstanding career achievements, earning acclaim from critics and audiences alike.

pretty much call Molly Ringwald late filmmaker John Hughes’ muse.The teen comedy queen, now 56, starred in a mélange of Hughes’ films of the 1980s, including “The Breakfast Club,” “Sixteen Candles” and “Pretty in Pink.”While the fashions of the decade were wild with big hair and neon colors, Ringwald, however, wasn’t too fond of the famous prom dress she had to don for “Pretty in Pink.” Hughes — who died in 2009 at age 59 — penned the script for the 1986 coming-of-age flick.In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, the “Riverdale” alum looked back on her famous ensembles for the outlet’s “Fashion Flashback” series. Despite her character Andie Walsh’s “iconic” frock, the actress admitted that she actually “really hated it at the time.”“It was not really what I had envisioned,” she said.

A 1985 New York Magazine article that first termed the phrase Brat Pack rocked the world of Andrew McCarthy and his co-stars of St. Elmo’s Fire — so much that each of the actors went years, even decades, without talking to each other. As McCarthy says, “actors want to be free of that baggage.”

“The View” to bring two formerly feuding co-stars together.Jon Cryer appeared Friday on the daytime talk show and revealed it’s where he and his “Pretty in Pink” costar, Andrew McCarthy, turned over a new leaf. “He and I famously did not get along when we were shooting ‘Pretty in Pink,'” Cryer, 58, reminisced to the ladies of the ABC talk show. “It was because there was tension,” he explained.

, was photographed in Manhattan Wednesday wearing a black button-down tucked into a black leather midi-skirt, a camel blazer, and stark white pointy-toe boots. In her hand, for some reason, she carried her tiny brown and white chihuahua named Pilaf, whom you may recognize as the star of the actor's .This is hardly the first time has carried the pup around like a living fashion accessory. She has .

romp through New York society.“Feud: Capote vs. The Swans,” based on journalist Laurence Leamer’s non-fiction book, focuses on author Truman Capote (Tom Hollander) and a group of high society New York City socialites that he dubbed “The Swans.”Capote won critical acclaim for his 1965 book, “In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences,” which delved into the violent murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas.The following year he hosted a now-legendary masked ball, called the Black and White Ball, at the Plaza Hotel, in honor of The Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic In the mid-1980s, Molly Ringwald fielded an intriguing proposal from the estate of Truman Capote. “I had been offered to do a remake of ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s,’” she recalls over tea on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. “I was like, ‘No!,’ but it’s interesting.

, Moore opted for a strapless Balmain number covered in black and white beads that formed the image of a large bird with feathers (also beaded) bursting out from the side. It's both stylish and slightly over-the-top, the perfect combination for the occasion: the premiere of FX's Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny, Naomi Watts, Tom Hollander, Molly Ringwald, Demi Moore, and Calista Flockhart.Truman Capote, author of In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's, famously threw a glamorous black and white ball at the Plaza Hotel at the height of his celebrity, and the entire (extremely stacked) cast honored the cultural moment by wearing black and white to the premiere.

The stars of season two of FEUD are going glam in NYC!

BreAnna Bell FX has released the second official trailer for Ryan Murphy’s forthcoming “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.” Tom Hollander, who plays Truman Capote in the series, faces off against the Swans in the trailer, which teases the story of the elite group of women that the “In Cold Blood” author surrounded himself with and the betrayal that led to their infamous falling out. The group included grande dame Barbara “Babe” Paley (Naomi Watts), Slim Keith (Diane Lane), C.Z.

Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans is coming!

FX has dropped the official trailer for Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans, the second installment of FX’s anthology series from Ryan Murphy, Plan B and 20th Television.

FX has released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming second season of anthology series Feud!

Caroline Brew editor FX has released the first teaser for Ryan Murphy‘s upcoming series “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans.” The second season of Murphy’s anthology series chronicles the literary scandal that sparked a fallout between writer Truman Capote and a high-society group of women, known as his “Swans.” Tom Hollander portrays Truman Capote, the “In Cold Blood” and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” author who betrayed his close circle of powerful women by publishing a story titled “La Côte Basque, 1965” in Esquire. The “Swans” include Babe Paley (Naomi Watts), C.Z.

Ryan Murphy dropped a teaser for the second installment of his Feud franchise, Capote Vs. The Swans, which highlights stars Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny, Calista Flockhart, Molly Ringwald and Demi Moore.

or is he?The second season of the producer’s critically acclaimed historical series “Feud” finally has a release date.The drama’s first two eps will drop on FX alongside a director’s cut edition of the first episode on sibling network FXX on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, at 10 p.m.

Elvis Presley in “Priscilla.” However, there is one role that Elordi didn’t exactly love, and fans are reeling from his confession.Jacob Elordi might be known for his more mainstream roles. However, before playing Nate Jacobs and Elvis Presley, the actor caught the attention of fans as Noah Flynn in “The Kissing Booth” films. The Netflix trilogy co-starred Joey King, Joel Courtney, Taylor Zahar Perez, and Molly Ringwald.The movies revolve around Elle (King) as she finds an unexpected romance with Noah (Elordi), who is the older brother of her best friend Lee (Courtney).

, stepping out in Paris in a sheer black dress for a Fashion Week moment with Kate Moss. paired her off-the-shoulder knit dress with a black clutch, black sunglasses and black heels, while Moss () wore stockings and a black satin skirt suit over a white top. She, too, wore opaque sunglasses.

Hollywood Reporter.Marc suffered from glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer, and died at his home in Dallas, Texas on July 29.Peri, 62, also paid tribute to her brother and his wife, Kaki Gilpin, in an emotional Instagram post.“Kaki and Marc took care of each other with kindness, strength, dignity and invaluable humor,” the “Make It or Break It” star began. “When Marc became ill, Kaki and their boys surrounded Marc with love, hugs, and round the clock support and care.

Jaws 2 as a child actor, has died aged 56.Gilpin died on Saturday (July 29) in Dallas after a battle with glioblastoma, as confirmed by his sister and Frasier actor Peri Gilpin to The Hollywood Reporter.In the 1978 sequel to Jaws, Gilpin played Sean Brody, the youngest son of Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider). In Steven Spielberg’s original Jaws, Sean was played by Jay Mello.Gilpin’s other credits include 1981 sci-fi comedy film Earthbound and The Legend Of The Lone Ranger, which also starred Christopher Lloyd.

Marc Gilpin, the child actor who played a son of Roy Scheider’s Police Chief Martin Brody in 1978’s Jaws 2, died Saturday in Dallas of the aggressive brain cancer glioblastoma. He was 56.

BreAnna Bell “Single Drunk Female” and “The Watchful Eye” have both been canceled at Freeform, Variety has confirmed. Season 2 of the comedy, which was released in April, picked up with Samantha Fink, who finally feels like she has a life worth celebrating now that she has a year and a half of sobriety under her belt. However, Sam quickly learns that sometimes life has other plans for her. She’s forced to figure out how to effect change where she can, sit in her discomfort when she can’t, and maybe even enjoy the ride. Sofia Black-D’Elia, Ally Sheedy, Sasha Compere, Lily Mae Harrington, Garrick Bernard, and Ian Gomez starred. Busy Phillips (“Cougar Town”), Ricky Velez (“The King of Staten Island”), Charlie Hall served as recurring guests on the season with guest star Molly Ringwald.

, FX's acclaimed dramedy about a fine-dining chef who takes over his late brother's failing Chicago sandwich shop, has returned with a stellar — and even more delicious — season 2. Adding to all the excitement and drama in the new episodes are a number of previously unannounced guest stars, from Jamie Lee Curtis to John Mulaney to Oliva Colman, who all make unexpected — but very notable — appearances throughout. Created by Christopher Storer, stars Jeremy Allen White as Carmy, the put-upon chef who returned home in the wake of his brother, Michael's (Jon Bernthal), suicide.

motorcycle crash Monday in Vermont. The 71-year-old actor had played TV movie and episodic characters as of late, and he had recently accepted a key role in Ryan Murphy’s “Feud: Capote Vs.

Andrew McCarthy recalled his rise to stardom as one of the members of the Brat Pack. During the ‘80s, the actor was a reluctant member of the Brat Pack – which consisted of a group of young idols such as Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Demi Moore and Rob Lowe – who dominated Hollywood. McCarthy, 60, reflected on how the term had a negative impact initially, but he learned to embrace it later in his career.

A post shared by Andrew McCarthy (@andrewtmccarthy)The documentary is based on McCarthy’s 2021 memoir “Brat, an 80s Story,” which focuses on his career in the 1980s and the peak of his fame as an actor. That period coincided with several other young actors who often appeared in one another’s movies, the most often cited being Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy.