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Molly Ringwald Is Still the ‘It’ Girl in Ryan Murphy’s ‘Feud: Capote vs. the Swans,’ But She Really Wants to Play ‘a Psycho Bitch’
Molly Ringwald, the 'Pretty in Pink' star and published novelist, wants to play a 'psycho b----' in Ryan Murphy's next project.
After the depressive, alcoholic novelist (played by Tom Hollander) alienates his New York circle of socialites by disclosing their secrets in a published short story, Joanne, living a quasi-enlightened hippie life in Los Angeles, offers a safe landing place. Part of Ringwald’s literary project has been excavating wrongdoing: Her 2018 New Yorker essay about her work with filmmaker John Hughes, for whom she expresses affection, recontextualizes the ways movies like “Sixteen Candles” treated girls and young women through the lens of the then-nascent #MeToo movement. (Recalling the 1985 TV movie “Surviving: A Family in Crisis,” Ringwald is astonished: “I had to do a kissing scene on the first day of filming, in a wet bathing suit, in front of an entire crew that I didn’t know.
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