Molly Ringwald says, “I took advantage of the fact that you can’t be a young actress in Hollywood and not have predators around you.”

Molly Ringwald doesn’t mince words when she talks about her early career in teen romantic comedies. Podcast guest WTF (with the help of peopleThe actor, known today for Riverdale, Kissing Booth and Feud, began his career at the age of 16 in John Hughes comedies such as Breakfast Club or 16 Candles for Sem, and from this period the actor has mixed memories:

“In Hollywood, I never really felt part of society, especially because I was so young. I didn’t go to clubs. I’m more outgoing now than I was then. I was so young.”

Ringwald also admits that he found it in time “in suspicious situations” :

Oh, I took advantage. You can’t be a young actress in Hollywood and not be surrounded by predators.

He admits that he has “Developed an incredible survival instinct and a huge ego” to protect himself.

And when it comes to movies, it wasn’t always pink (candy)

Last April, he confided The Sunday Times About The Breakfast Club, in which she starred in Claire Standy:

“I really like most of the movie, but some elements have aged badly, like Judd Nelson’s character, John Bender, who essentially sexually harasses my character.”

But the actor has already expressed reservations about the film, in which he starred as a teenager, this was in 2018 NPRAnd he recalled that Jake Ryan’s character (played by Michael Schofling) in “16 Candles” said something terrible:

Indeed, an hour into the film, a character declares: “As for the ass, I don’t miss it. I already have Caroline in the next room. I could rape her ten different ways if I wanted to.”. His interlocutor is not shocked and, on the contrary, answers: “What are you waiting for?” To which he replies: “I don’t know. She’s pretty, curvy and all. I just don’t care anymore.”

Out of action, Jake calls on his friend “Geek” (Anthony Michael Hall) to take Caroline home while she’s blacked out, implying that he can do whatever he wants with her.

A sad sequence by Molly Ringwald, who concluded on this topic:

“I believe like everyone else and I think it’s true that times were different and what was acceptable is certainly not acceptable today and shouldn’t have been acceptable, but it was (…) Of course I don’t want John Hughes Not to be ungrateful, but I object to a lot of what was in those movies.”