Molly Ringwald looks back on ‘peculiar’ relationship with John Hughes as a teen: ‘Still processing that’

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Monica Lewinsky’s podcast Tuesday and reflected on being cast in Hughes’ 1980 comedies “Sixteen Candles,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Pretty in Pink” as a teenager.“In terms of, did I know that I was a ‘muse,’ he told me that but when you’re that age, I had nothing really to compare it to,” Ringwald said.Ringwald explained while “Sixteen Candles” was Hughes’ directorial debut, she already had experience doing movies. “But I was still only 15 years old so I didn’t have a lot of life experience,” she noted. “It didn’t seem that strange to me [being Hughes’s muse].

Now, it does.”“Like strange, still complimentary or strange weird, strange creepy?” Lewinsky, 51, asked.“Umm, yeah, it’s peculiar,” Ringwald said. “It’s complimentary.

It’s always felt incredibly complimentary, but yeah, looking back on it, there was something peculiar.”Ringwald also addressed how Hughes — who was in his 30s when he worked with the actress — wrote “Sixteen Candles” solely after seeing Ringwald’s headshot when she was 15.“It’s complex,” the “Riverdale” alum said.