Molly Ringwald Felt Limited by ‘Brat Pack’ Label, But ‘The Bear’ and ‘Feud’ Roles Excite Her for What’s Next
variety.comTodd 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.
Ringwald tells Variety that after more than four decades as an actor, she hasn’t been waiting for this kind of honor, but she welcomes it, noting she hasn’t been deluged with trophies over the course of her career. “It’s really nice to be recognized in that way,” says the actor, who has most recently portrayed Joanne Carson in Ryan Murphy’s “Feud: Capote vs.
the Swans.” Even before her back-to-back movie-star turns in John Hughes’ films, working opposite the likes of John Cassavetes and Susan Sarandon in Mazursky’s 1982 adaptation of the Shakespeare play cemented her passion for performing.
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