His Sixteen Candles role as geek sidekick Bryce was only 17-year-old Cusack's second film role, but by the following year, he'd graduated to lead in such films as The Sure Thing and Better Off Dead. By the end of the decade, with Say Anything, he became one of his generation's favorite leading men.
Despite the title, “Sixteen Candles” stars Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall were actually both 15 years old during filming. Michael Schoeffling (Jake Ryan), on the other hand, was 23 at the time. It's an age gap that makes the movie slightly creepy in hindsight. And meanwhile, Geddy Watanabe was 28.
John and Joan Cusack have both made names for themselves in the movie industry and have been in 10 movies together. Yet many don't realize that they're brother and sister. Joan gives credit to her brother for encouraging her throughout her career in the hectic industry.
Molly Ringwald was just 15 years old when she was cast as Sixteen Candles' protagonist Sam, a suburban teen whose family forgets about her 16th birthday amidst the chaos of her older sister's impending wedding.
Now 63 years old, no one knows why he quit acting and he's never spoken about it, truly preferring a life away from show business with his wife and two kids. However, his grown daughter Scarlett is now making waves on her own in the modeling world, and is also dabbling in acting.
Sixteen Candles with John Cusack and Anthony Michael Hall
How old is Joan Cusack in 16 candles?
Sixteen Candles wasn't the first film that 21-year-old Joan Cusack appeared in alongside her brother John (that would be 1983's Class), and it was far from the last. As an unnamed geek, Cusack enjoyed a memorable sight gag involving a drinking fountain.
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.
Michael Earl Schoeffling is an American former actor and model, known for playing the role of Jake Ryan in Sixteen Candles, Al Carver in Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken, Kuch in Vision Quest, and Joe in Mermaids. Schoeffling was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and raised in South Jersey.
He is still in the industry but most of his films are going straight to DVD which some can be watched on Netflix. John Cusack has had a pretty solid career and given some great performances. But he's only been doing schlock B-movies for nearly a decade now.
Though a Hollywood star, Cusack always has owned a home in Chicago. He now owns a 45th-floor condo in a Near North Side tower that he bought through a trust in 2005 for nearly $2.9 million.
When Jake puts Caroline in the car and Geek-Ted gets his geek friends to take pictures of him with Caroline her hair is definitely still cut in the back (actually it's a wig) - it's cut.
The drunk girl in question is Caroline (Haviland Morris), the girlfriend to romantic hero Jake Ryan, and if you know one thing about Sixteen Candles, it's that Jake Ryan (Michael Schoeffling) is perfect.
The dreamy actor was 23 when he played the sweet high school jock in "Sixteen Candles," and continued to smolder in films like "Mermaids" and "Let's Get Harry" before his final role in 1991's "Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken."The actor then left Hollywood behind and raised two children,...
The actor retired from acting in 1991. According to the reports of a media portal, Schoeffling quit acting as he couldn't find many roles and needed to support his wife and children. The actor instead turned to Carpentry.
Caroline Mulford in 'Sixteen Candles' 'Memba Her?! Haviland Morris is best known for playing the practically impossible to cut up Caroline Mulford -- who's dating the dreamy Jake Ryan played by Michael Schoeffling -- in the angsty '84 classic "Sixteen Candles." Guess what she looks like now!
How old was Molly Ringwald while filming Sixteen Candles?
Molly Ringwald was just 15 years old when she was cast as Sixteen Candles' protagonist Sam, a suburban teen whose family forgets about her 16th birthday amidst the chaos of her older sister's impending wedding.
Haviland Morris is a natural redhead, but was wearing a blonde wig in the movie. And before you ask, yes, that's a body double of Haviland in the shower.
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.
