{"id":1922414,"date":"2023-05-02T00:41:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T04:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/molly-ringwald-explains-why-she-turned-down-lead-role-in-pretty-woman\/"},"modified":"2023-05-02T00:44:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T04:44:19","slug":"molly-ringwald-explains-why-she-turned-down-lead-role-in-pretty-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/molly-ringwald-explains-why-she-turned-down-lead-role-in-pretty-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Molly Ringwald Explains Why She Turned Down Lead Role In \u2018Pretty Woman\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmolly-ringwald-explains-why-she-turned-down-lead-role-in-pretty-woman%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1922414&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Molly Ringwald Reveals Why She Turned Down &#8220;Pretty Woman&#8221; Role<\/h2>\n<p>Hollywood icon Molly Ringwald recently opened up about why she turned down the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kushner-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize\/\" title=\"Kushner Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize\">lead role<\/a> in the 1990s hit movie &#8220;Pretty Woman,&#8221; which ultimately went to superstar Julia Roberts. During an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2023\/apr\/24\/i-was-projected-as-the-sweet-american-girl-next-door-it-wasnt-me-molly-ringwald-bites-back\">The Guardian<\/a>, the 55-year-old actress talked about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mercyme-debuts-new-single-for-crew-member-who-lost-all-four-limbs\/\" title=\"\u2018MercyMe\u2019 Debuts New Single for Crew Member Who Lost All Four Limbs\">early days<\/a> of her career in the 80s, marked by appearances in coming-of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boyfriend-material\/\" title=\"Boyfriend Material\">-age movies<\/a> like &#8220;Sixteen Candles,&#8221; &#8220;Pretty In Pink,&#8221; and &#8220;The Breakfast Club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ringwald said she had wanted to take on &#8220;darker roles&#8221; but found it challenging. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t really feel like darker roles were available to me,&#8221; the actress said. &#8220;The ones that I wanted to do, I didn&#8217;t get. I was too young for certain roles. I was at this weird in-between stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Why She Turned Down &#8220;Pretty Woman&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>The &#8220;Pick Up Artist&#8221; star said one such role she turned down was that of Vivian Ward in the movie starring Roberts and Richard Gere. &#8220;Julia Roberts was wonderful in it, but I didn&#8217;t really like the story,&#8221; Ringwald explained. &#8220;Even then, I felt like there was something icky about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another movie she said she got turned down for was the lead role in Mike Nichols&#8217; &#8220;Working Girl,&#8221; which ended up going to Melanie Griffith, who was about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/molly-ringwald-explains-why-she-turned-down-lead-role-in-pretty-woman\/\" title=\"Molly Ringwald Explains Why She Turned Down Lead Role In \u2018Pretty Woman\u2019\">ten years older<\/a>. The movie is about a young girl trying to get out of the secretary ring and climb the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-bidens-sister-to-cash-in-on-his-presidency-with-new-memoir\/\" title=\"Joe Biden\u2019s Sister to Cash in on His Presidency With New Memoir\">corporate ladder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;She really needs to be at that moment where you feel the pain,'&#8221; Ringwald recalled the director telling her. &#8216;&#8221;You have your whole life ahead of you \u2013 nobody&#8217;s going to believe that of you.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Dealing with Fame<\/h3>\n<p>At one point, the actress admitted she was just never really comfortable with the fame she found early in her career and admitted others are better at dealing with living in the spotlight. &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to grow up under that,&#8221; Ringwald said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to overdo this \u2013 and boohoo, I fully recognize my privilege \u2013 but I needed to get out from under all that scrutiny. I just wasn&#8217;t cut out for it in a way that certain other people are. Some people are really good at it. Taylor Swift is amazing! But I didn&#8217;t feel comfortable with that level of stardom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Related<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/leann-rimes-says-she-missed-out-on-a-lot-of-things-in-her-childhood-when-she-became-a-star-at-such-a-young-age\">LeAnn Rimes Says She \u2018Missed Out On A Lot Of Things\u2019 In Her Childhood When She Became A Star At Such A Young Age<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready to hear the juicy details! Molly Ringwald, the iconic Hollywood star, just spilled the tea on why she turned down the lead role in the 90s blockbuster &#8220;Pretty Woman&#8221; that catapulted Julia Roberts to superstardom. In a recent interview with The Guardian, the 55-year-old actress opened up about her early days in the 80s and revealed that there was just something &#8220;icky&#8221; about the role that didn&#8217;t sit right with her. Keep reading to find out more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1922415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4443,6961,24694,9795,25551,5528,3983],"class_list":["post-1922414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-explains","tag-lead","tag-molly","tag-pretty","tag-ringwald","tag-role","tag-woman"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1922415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}