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Molly Ringwald has 'complex' feelings about being John Hughes' teen muse: 'I'm still processing all of that'

Molly Ringwald has 'complex' feelings about being John Hughes' teenage muse: 'I'm still processing all of that.'

Appearing on the latest episode of Monica Lewinsky's Reclaiming podcast to chat about fame and teenhood, the '80s icon revisited some of her features with the filmmaker and said she now looks back at that particular period with a different lens. Amid the #MeToo movement, Ringwald famously penned a thoughtful essay about the complicated history of Hughes' movies, citing the sexism, racism, and homophobia of that time. Erasing history is a dangerous road when it comes to art — change is essential, but so, too, is remembering the past, in all of its transgression and barbarism, so that we may properly gauge how far we have come, and also how far we still need to go.”

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