Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic In the mid-1980s, Molly Ringwald fielded an intriguing proposal from the estate of Truman Capote. “I had been offered to do a remake of ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s,’” she recalls over tea on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. “I was like, ‘No!,’ but it’s interesting.
The movie was not at all what he had written.” Capote had envisioned protagonist Holly Golightly as a vivacious motormouth with none of Audrey Hepburn’s sangfroid; he’d wanted Marilyn Monroe.
And Ringwald was coming off a run of films that included “Sixteen Candles,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Pretty in Pink,” which had made her a star and a standard-bearer for youth culture.
While Ringwald had a different appeal from Monroe, her insouciant energy and quicksilver ability to shift her moods got closer to Capote’s character than did Hepburn’s reinvention in the 1961 film. “I just thought that I would have been completely savaged if I did it,” Ringwald says. “But now that I look back on it, I’m like — why not?” Ringwald, whose first onstage appearance was at age 3 in a local production of Capote’s “The Grass Harp,” is getting another shot at the literary master.
Read more on variety.com
Get the latest stars news and celebrity rumours with exclusive stories, photos, videos and interviews.
Breaking up, scandals, engagements, divorces, gossip – all you need to know about the private lives of your favorite celebs.
Get to know the latest showbiz news along with exclusive interviews and even more. All this is waiting for you on the main page 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! Who, where, when, with whom, how, why and for what!? Stay tuned to know first!
Just follow us daily and we will provide you with the current news from the life of famous stars and celebrities.
Owner: SNOWLAND s.r.o.
Registration certificate 06691200
Address:
Snowland s.r.o.
16200, Na okraji 381/41, Veleslavín, 162 00 Praha 6
Czech Republic
©2024. All rights reserved.