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Molly Ringwald Slams Ally Sheedy's 'Breakfast Club' Makeover During Film's 40th Anniversary
Apr 15, 2025
The actor, now 57, revealed how she wishes the scene would’ve gone down instead.
Molly Ringwald apparently has a bone to pick with that infamous makeover scene in “The Breakfast Club.”
While appearing at a 40th Anniversary Reunion event for the 1985 teen drama at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo over the weekend, Ringwald let it be known that she was “not happy” about the scene as she was joined on a panel by co-stars Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy and Emilio Estevez.
In the film, Ringwald, who starred as the snobby queen bee Claire, pulls outcast Allison (Sheedy) aside to give her a makeover, in which she helps her ditch her dark, goth clothes and disheveled hair for a powder pink ensemble that makes jock Andy (Estevez) finally notice her.
Ringwald’s response came after an audience member brought up that he’s seen a “growing consensus” among fans on the internet that Allison was “more attractive before her makeover.”
“I just want to say that I am not responsible for the makeover,” Ringwald responded. “And I was really not happy.”
While the ultra-predictable makeover trope, where a character undergoes a dramatic change in appearance to attract a love interest, certainly ran its course in many coming-of-age films over the years, fans later came to reject Sheedy’s transformation scene — and Ringwald is siding with them.
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