Molly Ringwald Had 1 Big Issue With Ending to ‘The Breakfast Club’
Molly Ringwald was not a fan of one of her final scenes in the movie The Breakfast Club.
During a panel discussion for the film’s 40th anniversary celebration at the C2E2 pop culture convention, the actress said she wished her character, Claire Standish, didn’t give Ally Sheedy’s character, Allison Reynolds, a makeover at the end of the film.
"I just want to say that I am not responsible for the makeover. And I was really not happy,” Ringwald said of the famous scene that saw the transformation of Sheedy’s goth misfit character into a teenage dream, complete with a flowery hair bow.
"I thought that it would've been better just to strip off all of the makeup and just have Ally's face fresh-scrubbed because it's so beautiful," Ringwald added. "I didn't like the way that they did her hair at the end… I was not responsible."
The somewhat controversial makeover was enough for school jock Andrew (Emilio Estevez) to do a double take at the resident “Basket Case” and deem her worthy enough to kiss.
In an interview with The Telegraph, Sheedy revealed that she tried to have the scene changed. “Molly and I tried our best,” she said in 2020. “It was much more extreme before. We managed to get some things neutralized and get our little tweaks in it. But it was determined by the studio that that scene was going to be there.”
With the scene still in place, Sheedy told Page Six she was ultimately “uncomfortable“ with filming it. “It was one of those things, though. It was the ’80s, and we got to take this young woman who seems like a crazy person and make her into, you know, somebody pretty or whatever it was,” she said, adding, “Allison is much more delicious before the hair bow goes on.”
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