Molly Ringwald Is Still the ‘It’ Girl in Ryan Murphy’s ‘Feud: Capote vs. the Swans,’ But She Really Wants to Play ‘a Psycho Bitch’
variety.comDaniel 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.
The movie was not at all what he had written.” Capote had envisioned protagonist Holly Golightly as a vivacious motormouth with none of Audrey Hepburn’s sangfroid; he’d wanted Marilyn Monroe.
And Ringwald was coming off a run of films that included “Sixteen Candles,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Pretty in Pink,” which had made her a star and a standard-bearer for youth culture.
While Ringwald had a different appeal from Monroe, her insouciant energy and quicksilver ability to shift her moods got closer to Capote’s character than did Hepburn’s reinvention in the 1961 film. “I just thought that I would have been completely savaged if I did it,” Ringwald says. “But now that I look back on it, I’m like — why not?” Ringwald, whose first onstage appearance was at age 3 in a local production of Capote’s “The Grass Harp,” is getting another shot at the literary master.
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