Molly Ringwald admitted that The Breakfast Club “hasn't aged very well.”
The 56-year-old actress, who played Claire Standish, nicknamed Princess, in the classic 1980s film about five disparate students who spend a weekend in detention, recently announced that she was married to her 21-year-old daughter Matilda. Rewatching the film with Gianopulos, he said: She was struck by how much different things were now.
She told the Sunday Times: “She just rewatched The Breakfast Club, which came out in 1985, because Matilda wanted to watch it with me.
“There's a lot of things I really like about this movie, but there are elements that haven't aged well, like John Bender, played by Judd Nelson, essentially sexually harassing my character. I'm glad I got to see that.” ”And now things have really changed. ”
This film is not Molly's only collaboration with director John Hughes, as she has also appeared in Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink, and is proud of her work with the director, who passed away in 2009. always had a good time.
She said: “They were all really fun movies to make. The first movie I made with director John Hughes, Sixteen Candles, in 1984, we shot it in the summer. He just rolled the camera and I We improvised. It was a very freeing and creative experience.”
Meanwhile, Matilda is following in the footsteps of Molly, who also has 14-year-old twins Roman and Adele with husband Panio Giannopoulos, but the 'Feud: Capote vs. Swan' actress had a daughter when she was 19. refused to let him pursue acting. She still believes they made the “right decision.”
Molly said, “The Nepo baby incident is ridiculous.Of course, if your parents are in the industry, you've probably heard of something like this, and you may be genetically predisposed to it.'' .
“We didn't let Matilda pursue acting as a child because we wanted her to focus on being a child.
“She fought us over it – she's still upset about it, but it was the right decision.
“I don't think professional acting is a good way for kids to grow up. It's too stressful…I did my first professional job when I was 10 years old, and it wasn't easy.”