80's Film Star Molly Ringwald Says All Her Hit Movies Were Too White

Actress Molly Ringwald, who famously played in several of director John Hughes's coming-of-age "brat pack" movies in the 1980s, said those films were "really, really, very white." - "Those movies, the movies that I am so well known for, they were very much of the time. And if you were to remake that now, I think it would have to be much more diverse. And it would have to be, you know, you couldn't make a movie that white. Those movies are really, really, very white," Ringwald said at the Miami Film Festival while she was accepting Variety's Creative Vanguard Award. "And they don't really represent what it is to be a teenager in a school in America today, I don't think," she added. The 56-year-old actress began her career on the sitcoms Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life before her movie debut in the drama Tempest (1982). Her acting career has steadily continued, but none of her films has reached the height of fame as when she starred as an angsty teenager in Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), and Pretty in Pink (1986).