Shailene Woodley had no clue who TV mom Molly Ringwald was on ‘Secret Life of the American Teenager’: ‘I don’t get it’
nypost.comVanity Fair’s “Scene Selection,” Shailene Woodley, 32, confessed that she didn’t know who Molly Ringwald was at the time that Ringwald played her TV mom. “I didn’t know who Molly Ringwald was,” the “Big Little Lies” actress said about the ‘80s teen movie icon. “I was 15, didn’t grow up with a TV.
Like, every one of my parents’ friends were like, ‘You’re working with Molly Ringwald!’ And I was like, ‘What is her…. Why? I don’t get it.’ Because I had never seen ‘The Breakfast Club’ or ‘Sixteen Candles’ or any of her films.”Woodley played Ringwald’s TV daughter on “The Secret Life of the American Teenager,” which aired on ABC Family between 2008 and 2013 (ABC Family has since rebranded into Freeform).
On the show, Ringwald, 56, played Anne Juergens, the mother of Amy Juergens (Woodley), a teen girl who got pregnant after having sex at band camp with playboy Ricky Underwood (Daren Kagasoff).
Amy soon got involved with Ben (Ken Baumann, the son of a sausage mogul). The show wasn’t Woodley’s first role, as she also appeared in shows such as “The O.C.,” but it was her first starring role in a show.
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