Cast ‘Pretty in Pink’: Where are they now?

Cast Pretty in pink All grown up – but they will never forget what he meant to star in the teenager classic all years ago.

Marked Star 1986 Molly RingwaldThird project and final limit with its writer, John HughesWho had worked with before on 1984’s Sixteen candles and 1985’s The breakfast club.

“He was Unlike any other director I have never met. He had prickly hair and these crazy sneakers, ”said Ringwald Fashionable In March 2021 in honor of Pretty in pink35th anniversary. “We clicked and got on almost immediately. I was fairly introverted, but he had so much confidence in me, to the point that I felt I could do anything. “

In the film, Ringwald Andie Walsh, a high scholar whose wardrobe wardrobe played Fair cushion shop made her exile with her richer peers including her bully, Steff Mckee (James Spader), and crush, mcdonough blane (Andrew McCarthy).

However, Hughes, who died in 2009Stunned as much as Redhead style, 17 at the time until he wrote the script with her in mind.

“At that point in my life I also liked pink – Andie’s room was basically modeled after mine,” Ringwald revealed to the magazine. “The prop people even took a collage from my personal bedroom and used it in the movie for Andie’s room, if that tells you anything.”

The costumes in the film were also inspired by Ringwald’s real wardrobe – but former teenager hated Pepto-Bismol Color Prom Gow. She even “bursts into tears” when she first saw her.

“I kept all the clothes except for that dress because I hated it so much,” said the California native Fashionable. “And of course now I wish I could frame it!”

Ringwald was unable to wear the dress of her dreams in the film’s great end – but her character got a man. That’s not always the plan, though. Pretty in pink Originally ended with Andie choosing his bestie Phil “Duckie” Dale (Jon Cryer) over a blane. However, early screenings of the film found that audiences wanted to see their main woman getting the man she had been pinching all over, not her friend Nerdy.

When asked about the initial responses to the finale, director Howard Deutch have said Geek’s den In June 2020, “I had a heart attack because this was my first film and we were in the screening room. … These children who recruited to watch the film scream, loved the film, screamed. It was like hit! And then suddenly, the minute the finale came and Duckie was the hero they started to boil. “

Deutch was forced to go back and film a new finale where Andie got her ever happy with a blane, which he still believes was the right choice.

“I think it (Princess’s marriage director))) Rob Reiner He said (who), ‘You can’t get the princess to get the frog,’ ”he noted. “That is, you have to give the women what they want and they wanted (Andie) to get what she wanted. She wanted the cute boy and forgot the politics. “

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