Molly Ringwald nonetheless remembers getting “taken advantage of” as a rising Hollywood star.
The so-called “Brat Pack” alum of younger Nineteen Eighties actors is finest recognized for her efficiency in John Hughes’ “The Breakfast Club,” and whereas she performed a spoiled wealthy child completely, Ringwald herself by no means felt like a part of the membership.
The actor, now 56, shared as a lot on the “WTF with Marc Maron” podcast Monday.
“I never really felt like I was part of a community when I was in Hollywood, just because I was so young, really,” Ringwald informed Maron. “I wasn’t into going out to clubs. I feel like I’m more social now than I was then. I was just too young and it was awkward.”
When Maron mentioned she was “lucky” she didn’t “get taken advantage of,” Ringwald spoke up.
“Oh, I was taken advantage of,” she responded with amusing. “You can’t be a young actress in Hollywood and not have predators around. I wasn’t raped by Harvey Weinstein so I’m grateful for that, but I also did write an essay for The New Yorker.”
The previous studio head is at the moment in jail for rape and associated expenses.
Ringwald mentioned her 2017 article, “All The Other Harvey Weinsteins,” was an try to remind people who “he’s not the only one.” She wrote within the essay that whereas she sued him over share rights to one in every of their early collaborations, Ringwald mentioned she bought “lucky” and that Weinstein by no means touched her.
“I was definitely in questionable situations,” nonetheless, she informed Maron.
“But I do have an incredible survival instinct and a pretty big superego and managed to figure out a way to protect myself,” Ringwald continued. “But yeah, it can be harrowing, and I have a 20-year-old daughter now who is going into the same profession.”
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The actor confessed whereas laughing that she tried “everything” to persuade her daughter in any other case.
Ringwald herself began out with bit elements in reveals like “The Facts of Life” earlier than “Brat Pack” classics like “Sixteen Candles” made her a star. She partially decried these movies in a 2018 New Yorker article for his or her “racist, misogynistic” and “homophobic” jokes.
The actor moved to France within the Nineteen Nineties, however lately starred reverse Demi Moore and Naomi Watts in Hulu’s “Feud” sequence. Her daughter Mathilda Gianopoulos, in the meantime, simply made her appearing debut reverse Oscar winner Anne Hathaway in “The Idea of You.”
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