Molly Ringwald gets candid about ‘unsustainable’ cancellation culture, doesn’t believe Harvey Weinstein’s ‘situation could exist today’, and says I was the girl next door ‘wasn’t I’ in rare interview
Molly Ringwald gave her thoughts on cancellation culture and the #MeToo movement in an extensive interview with The protector on Monday.
The 55-year-old actress said she is skeptical of the overall progress made in show business more than five years after the fall of Harvey Weinstein and a number of other powerful Hollywood figures associated with sexual misconduct.
The star of ’80s classics including Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink compared the institutional shifts in the entertainment industry to the questionably effective methods of how schools deal with bullying.
“They say, ‘We have a zero-tolerance policy,'” she said. “After that, it still exists, but it kind of goes underground. It’s a bit harder to get caught. It’s getting harder to say, “Is this bullying or not?”
Ringwald said “that’s kind of how it is with #MeToo,” which has kept an abuser the size of Weinstein’s from operating, but has also impacted the careers of people who may not have deserved such a fate.
The latest: Molly Ringwaldt, 55, gave her thoughts on cancellation culture and the #MeToo movement – and why she thinks things can’t be effective – in an extensive interview with The Guardian on Monday. Pictured Monday in NYC
“I don’t think a Harvey Weinstein situation could exist right now,” said the Roseville, California resident. “But again, a lot of people have been dragged into ‘cancellation,’ and I’m concerned about that; it is, in a sense, unsustainable.
The Feud actress noted that “some people have been unfairly canceled and don’t belong in the same category as someone like Harvey Weinstein.”
The Oscar-winning producer’s years of sexual misconduct, involving more than 80 accusers, were exposed through a series of stories in the fall of 2017, eventually leading to prosecutions and convictions for sexual assault on both coasts.
Weinstein, 70, was sentenced to 23 years in New York in 2020, and in February was sentenced to an additional 16 years in prison.
Ringwald said she fears over-correction on the subject will further scare people off and could get in the way of real change.
“What it ultimately does is make people roll their eyes,” she said. ‘That’s my concern. I really want things to change. Workplaces should be places where everyone can feel safe – not just in Hollywood, but everywhere. Especially Americans.’
Ringwald commented on what she says is the tendency of people in the United States to go to extremes.
‘We can never do things step by step; we’re so binary, so all or nothing,” the actress said. “We’re actually a bunch of Puritans.”
The star of ’80s classics including Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink compared the institutional shifts in the entertainment industry to the questionably effective methods of how schools deal with bullying
The Feud actress noted that “some people have been unfairly canceled and don’t belong in the same category as someone like Harvey Weinstein”
Ringwald said, ‘I don’t think a Harvey Weinstein situation could exist right now,’ referring to the convicted rapist, pictured in court in LA last fall
The star of ’80s classics including Pretty in Pink (pictured) said she wasn’t completely comfortable with the characters she was cast in during her years in the John Hughes movies
Ringwald also spoke in the interview about how she wasn’t completely comfortable with the characters she was cast in during her years in the John Hughes movies.
“I was projected as this perfect sweet American girl next door,” she said. “Which I wasn’t, but I was also figuring out who I was. I was quite young.’
Acknowledging the impact they’ve had on her life, she said, “There are going to be people who will always see me that way, until I do something as big as one of those movies – and it would be pretty hard to put those in terms.” to surpass. from the cash register.’