'Those movies are really, very white': Actress Molly Ringwald says '80s movies remakes would need to be 'much more diverse'



Actress Molly Ringwald, known for classic 1980s movies such as "The Breakfast Club" and "Sixteen Candles," said if those movies were to be remade in a modern era they would need to be done with a more diverse cast.

Ringwald received Variety's Creative Vanguard Award during the Miami Film Festival, and the award presentation was followed by a Q&A period about her career.

Ringwald was just a teenager when her '80s cult classics were released, which also included "Pretty in Pink," released when she was about 18 years old.

The teen heart throb said if the movies were to be remade, however, studios couldn't make movies that were "that white."

"Those movies, the movies that I'm so well-known for, they were very much of the time. If you were to remake that now I think it would have to be much more diverse, you couldn't make a movie that white," she said while laughing.

"Those movies are really, very white," she continued. "They don't really represent what it is to be a teenager in a school in America today, I don't think. But I think that they were really great and they were of that time, and they really represented John Hughes' experience."

Molly Ringwald on how #PrettyinPink #SixteenCandles and #TheBreakfastClub would need more diversity if remade today: "Those movies are very white and they don't really represent what it is to be a teenager in a school in America today." @MiamiFilmFest https://t.co/zADRyU4CfW
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The writer in question, John Hughes, wrote a plethora of '80s and '90s classics that Ringwald and other actors of the time benefited from. "Vacation," "Weird Science," "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," and "Home Alone" were all written by Hughes, as were Ringwald's biggest hits.

In 2023, Ringwald publicly stated that she was mistreated and perhaps assaulted when she filmed her iconic '80s movies. She claimed that "a married film director" shoved his tongue down her throat when she was 14 years old, and a crew member pressed up against her with an erection showing through his clothes in another instance.

During the same interview, she said the mid-'80s were a "different time" in terms of sexually predatory behavior.

Ringwald also spoke ill of cancel culture and claimed that it had grown too big following Harvey Weinstein's downfall, and the #MeToo movement appeared to be on the way out. "[A] lot of people have gotten swept up in 'cancelation,'" Ringwald said, "and I worry about that."

After receiving her award, the actress told Variety that her best advice was to not stop and reflected on guidance she had received.

"'The only thing that will stop you is you. So all you have to do is keep doing what you are doing.’ That has always come back to me because it’s a really hard business. There are ups and downs, there’s a lot of competition, and everyone is replaceable."

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Watch Vivek Ramaswamy’s EPIC response to Charlamagne tha God’s claim that America is a land of white supremacy



Radio host and TV personality Charlamagne tha God has been drinking the Kool-Aid of the left.

“It's always been freedom, liberty, and justice for some, usually that some is white people,” he tells GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.

Vivek’s response, which is delivered in his usual calm and articulate manner, is epic to say the least.

“The nation has fallen short of our promise since our founding,” Vivek says. But “we're not founded on an ethnicity or a monarch or a food or even a religion. We’re founded on a set of ideals that brought a group of people together in 1776, and we live by those ideals, at least we aspire to those ideals today.”

“We were never included in those ideals originally,” says Charlamagne.

“Originally but never and originally are two different things,” says Vivek, adding, “if you had somebody who was in 1870 looking at the world we live in today, if you had somebody in 1960 who was looking at the world we live in today as it relates to race in America, we would be darn close to what they would have thought of as the promised land.”

“I think we have to recognize that America is about that pursuit. We're a lot further along than we were 250 years ago,” Vivek says.

To see Vivek’s full response, watch the clip below.


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Larry Elder skewers Charlamagne Tha God over Joe Biden declaring he 'ain't black' if he voted for Donald Trump



Republican presidential candidate Larry Elder verbally sparred with Charlamagne Tha God on a recent episode of "The Breakfast Club" radio show. Elder called out Charlamagne Tha God over not defending himself when Joe Biden declared that any black American who didn't vote for him was not black.

Charlamagne Tha God — whose real name is Lenard Larry McKelvey — asked Elder on Thursday, "Have you ever heard the term 'n***** wake-up call'?"

After Elder responded that he was not familiar with the term, Charlamagne defined it as: "It's an incident where a person of color forgets that they are of color and are reminded rather brutally by an unexpected act of racism. Have you ever had that?"

Elder fired back, "I'm acutely aware, Charlemagne, that I am a black person, just as you are a black person. And when Joe Biden insulted you by saying 'you ain't really black if you don't know whether or not you want to vote for me or vote for Donald Trump.' It seems to me that should've been a wake-up call on your part."

"How dare this guy come in here and insult you, a black man, and tell you that you got to think a certain way. I'm amazed that you weren't mad about that," Elder proclaimed.

Charlamagne deflected, "I'm not going to say that it upset me, just like I'm not letting you upset me. You know? I don't seem to get upset about those things."

Elder hammered the radio host, "Well you just talked about a n***** wake-up call, and it seemed to me that should've been a wake-up call on your part."

Elder then targeted Biden's questionable track record regarding civil rights accomplishments.

"And Joe Biden has lied for decades about his civil rights record, claiming that he desegregated movie theaters and restaurants in Wilmington, Delaware, when he didn’t," Elder proclaimed. "And he didn’t do any of that. He lied and said that he tried to visit Nelson Mandela during apartheid [in] South Africa. He did not."

Elder then continued to expose Charlamagne, "And he came in here and told you that you aren't black unless you think in a certain kind of way? It seems to me that should have been a n***** wake-up call for you, but it wasn't apparently."

Elder said he didn't care about Charlamagne's party affiliation and added, "I'm just saying, but you are black. And to have a white guy come in here and tell you you have to think a certain way, otherwise you 'ain’t black.' Wow!"

The radio host asked how he should have responded to Biden's remark, and Elder advised, "What I just now said: 'How dare you insult me, how I ought to think as a human being, let alone a black person. I don't tell you how to think, Joe Biden. How dare you come in here and tell me how I should think. I'm gonna vote for Donald Trump because I wanna vote for Donald Trump. And if I wanna vote for Donald Trump, it does not make me not black.'"

In May 2020, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden appeared on "The Breakfast Club." An aide is heard on the audio ending the interview early on the hip-hop radio station. Charlamagne told Biden that he had more questions.

Biden arrogantly responded, "You've got more questions? Well, I'll tell you what: if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black."

Charlamagne replied, "It don't have nothing to do with Trump, it has to do with the fact I want something for my community."

Biden was slammed for his "you ain't black" comment by many, including Black Entertainment Television co-founder Robert L. Johnson, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Fox News host Harris Faulkner, and hip-hop mogul Diddy.

Following the controversy, Biden apologized for his remark which was deemed as "racist" by some.

"I should not have been so cavalier," Biden said at the time. "I've never, never, ever taken the African American community for granted."

"I shouldn't have been such a wise guy," he added. "I shouldn't have been so cavalier. ... No one should have to vote for any party based on their race, their religion, their background."

(WARNING: Explicit language)

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