Molly Ringwald is reflecting on her work with filmmaker John Hughes in "Sixteen Candles." On Tuesday's episode of Monica Lewinsky's "Reclaiming" podcast, the actress said she now finds it "a little ...

Molly Ringwald has never shied away from bluntly reassessing the 1980s teen rom-coms that made her a Hollywood legend. During a March 2025 appearance on Monica Lewinsky’s podcast “Reclaiming,” the ...

Molly Ringwald’s 1980s collaborations with director John Hughes are legendary, but now she’s looking at them in a new light. “Yeah, he wrote that just based on a headshot,” the actress said. He had ...

Molly Ringwald reflected on being a muse for late writer-director John Hughes in his 1980s comedies while she was a teenager. "It's peculiar," Ringwald, 57, admitted to long-time friend Monica ...

Before John Hughes and Molly Ringwald had ever met, he wrote ‘Sixteen Candles’ with her photo above his computer. She didn’t think much of it then—but times have changed. On Tuesday, Ringwald talked ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya Mosley. As we continue our series on classic films and movie icons, my next guest became the face of Gen X angst in her teens. Molly Ringwald grew to fame in the '80s with ...

Admittedly, Ringwald has "complex" feelings about being a muse for the director. "He told me that story, but, you know, when you’re that age — I mean, I had nothing really to compare it to," said ...

Molly Ringwald started writing as a child — before she became an ’80s teen icon who starred in such John Hughes films as Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club . She says she never ...

The 'Sixteen Candles' star and her husband Panio Gianopoulos are parents to daughter Mathilda, 20, and twins Adele and Roman, 15 Dia Dipasupil/Getty; Molly Ringwald/Instagram Molly Ringwald is ...

Gwyneth Paltrow surprised fans of the classic 1980s comedy Sixteen Candles by revealing an unexpected milestone for iconic ...

Molly Ringwald reflected on being a muse for late writer-director John Hughes in his 1980s comedies while she was a teenager.