Molly Ringwaldstar of the 80s hit classic The Breakfast Club, opened up about her 'harrowing' Hollywood experience as a young woman.
The 56-year-old actor – who started in the industry in her early teens and was just 17 when Breakfast Club was released – opened up about encountering “predators” during her career in a new interview.
The movie star also appeared in the 1984 film Sixteen Candles, the 1986 film Pretty in Pink and has appeared in recent years in the Kissing Booth trilogy and Riverdale as Maria Andrews.
But when fame first came knocking on Molly's door in the 1980s, she said she “never really felt like [she was] part of a community” because she was “so young” and a “shy, introverted person.”
'I didn't feel like going to clubs. I feel like I'm more social now than I was then. I was just too young,” she said on the radio WTF with Marc Maron podcast
“You're lucky you weren't taken advantage of or put in a terrible situation,” Marc, 60, responded to Molly, who quickly corrected his assumption.
“Oh, I was taken advantage of,” she replied, laughing, “You can't be a young actress in Hollywood without there being predators around.
“I wasn't raped by Harvey Weinstein, so I'm grateful for that,” she added. Molly starred in the Weinstein film Strike It Rich when she was 20 and talked about her experiences in Hollywood the 2017 New Yorker.
On the podcast, Molly explained that she was “definitely in questionable situations.”
She continued, “But I have an incredible survival instinct and a pretty big super-ego, and I've found a way to protect myself. But it can be harrowing.
'And I now have a twenty-year-old daughter in the same profession, even though I did everything I could to convince her to do something else. And it's hard.'
Her daughter Mathilda Ereni Gianopoulos, whom she shares with husband Panio Gianopoulos, recently made her acting debut as Georgia in the Amazon Prime hit The Idea of You.
Molly has previously spoken about an awkward scene in her film Sixteen Candles, in which she plays teenager Samantha Baker.
In the scene, male lead Jake Ryan (Michael Schoeffling) talks about possibly “molesting” his unconscious girlfriend Caroline (Haviland Morris).
Instead, Caroline is sent home with Ted (Anthony Michael) with whom she cannot remember having sex. A scene that would not have been acceptable today.
“Everyone says, and I believe it's true, that times were different and what was acceptable then is certainly not acceptable now and it shouldn't have been then, but that's kind of how it was.” Molly said in 2018.
She added that some parts in the films directed by John Hughes, including Sixteen Candles and Breakfast Club, “bothered” her.
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