Meg Ryan was supposedly considered for the lead role. Auditioned for the role of Molly, but turned down the part because she thought it was "silly". The Oscar winner was announced to play the wife of the Tony Blair-esque politician in director Roman Polanski's drama.
Michael J Fox shocked Whoopi Goldberg when he revealed that he turned down the chance to star alongside her in the movie Ghost. The former actor-turned-activist, 61, was a guest on US panel show The View to promote his new Apple TV+ documentary Still about his battle with Parkinson's disease.
"Then they changed their minds and then fired me, which was kind of hard as a 12 year old girl," she recalled. "What they said is, they wanted something closer to Lisa Whelchel, who played Blair, they wanted something closer to her age and I was too young at the time. I was a little bit of a different generation."
How old was Molly Ringwald when the Breakfast Club was made?
Molly was just 16 years old when she played the so-called “princess” Claire in the film, the most popular girl in school known for how beautiful and rich she is. Throughout the movie, Claire is relentlessly teased by John Bender, played by Judd Nelson.
In a separate interview, when asked why he never included s*x scenes in his films, he said, “What's the point?” He also revealed that the only thing that happened between Bender and Claire in the closet was some dialogue and a kiss, which was cut from the film. “Too much kissing.
How old was Molly Ringwald when she had her twins?
Ringwald and her husband expanded their family when they welcomed their twins, Adele and Roman, in 2009 when Ringwald was 41. "To have the opportunity to have another girl — it is a dream come true ... And a boy! We were all overjoyed about that too," Ringwald told People just weeks after the twins' arrival.
In subsequent decades, Ringwald acted in the television shows The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008–2013), Riverdale (2017–2023), Creepshow (2021), and Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022). In February 2024, Ringwald made her runway modeling debut at New York Fashion Week, walking for Batsheva.
In the film, Molly Ringwald's working-class character Andie ends up with Andrew McCarthy's “richie” Blane. However, that wasn't the intended ending for the film. The original ending had Andie ending up with Jon Cryer's character, Duckie, with the two dancing together at prom.
Ringwald also told The Times she “always knew” she wanted to have kids, but it took her a while. When she welcomed her first child with Gianopoulos, she was 36. “At that age the biological clock is a real thing and it had kind of become deafening," she said. "All I could think about was: must have kids.”
John Travolta was originally offered the role of Forrest Gump, but turned it down to work on Pulp Fiction. Despite turning down roles in successful movies like Forrest Gump, Travolta doesn't feel any regret and is not bitter about his career trajectory.
Molly Ringwald Says She Turned Down Julia Roberts' Role in 'Pretty Woman': “I Didn't Really Like the Story” - IMDb. Molly Ringwald is getting candid about finding her way in Hollywood when she was younger, and why she turned down an iconic role in Pretty Woman.
Harrison Ford, Michael J. Fox, Paul Hogan, Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Kline, Alec Baldwin and Tom Cruise were considered for the role of Sam Wheat. Bruce Willis turned the role of Sam Wheat down as he did not understand the script and later called himself a "knucklehead" for declining.
Patrick Swayze's Sam Wheat, a ghost after his murder, professes eternal love and kisses his tearful lover Molly Jensen (Demi Moore) amid a symphonic swelling of their song "Unchained Melody." He says farewell to psychic Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg) before uttering the immortal line, "The love inside, you take it ...
Flower's disappearance coincided with Carrasco's maternity leave. Executive producers Joe Wiseman and Joe Port had already envisioned a major fake "Ghosts" departure. Their brewing idea coincided with Carrasco's maternity leave to give birth to daughter Mirentxu, now 4 months old, with her husband, actor Josh Grogan.
Later that night, Sam and Molly are attacked by armed thug Willie Lopez and Sam is killed by a gunshot during a struggle with Willie. Sam's ghost arises from his dead body, which lies next to the distraught Molly.
Hall and fellow co-star Molly Ringwald dated for a short period after filming The Breakfast Club. Later that year, Hall portrayed Gary Wallace, another likable misfit, in Weird Science.
Principal photography began on July 11, 1983. Sixteen Candles was filmed primarily in and around the Chicago North Shore suburban communities of Evanston, Skokie, and Highland Park, Illinois during the summer of 1983, when leads Ringwald and Hall were 15 years old.
Filming took place at Maine North High School in Des Plaines, Illinois, which had been closed in May 1981. The same setting was used for interior scenes of Hughes's 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which featured exterior shots from nearby Glenbrook North High School.
The couple met online in the early 2000s, shortly after Ringwald separated her from her first husband Valéry Lameignère, to whom she was married from 1999 to 2002. Ringwald and Gianopoulos were talking about books with mutual friends in an online literary salon when they hit it off.
Molly's been married to Panio Gianopoulos for nearly 20 years, and he escorted her to the big event alongside their daughter, Mathilda. Here's everything to know about Molly's longtime marriage to Panio and her previous marriage.
Brian's essay to Mr. Vernon ends with the iconic sign-off, “Sincerely yours, The Breakfast Club,” the last line in the movie. This nickname isn't explicitly explained in the movie, but there was a real-world reason for John Hughes's use of this moniker.
Bender sexually harasses Claire throughout the film and when he's not sexualising her, he takes out his rage on her with vicious contempt, calling her 'pathetic', and mocking her as 'Queenie', then to be rewarded with a kiss in the end.
