CraveOnline: What do you remember specifically about shooting the makeover scene together?
Molly Ringwald: Well, I remember being a little disappointed at the fact that they [put] Ally’s hair all the way off her face. I always thought, and I think Ally agrees, that it should’ve been less makeup. They kind of ‘80s-ified it a little.
Ally Sheedy: Yeah, at first in the script Molly was actually adding a lot of makeup onto this plain faced Allison but then I wanted that black thing. So then John said it was okay to have it be taking the black stuff off the eyes. I think the idea was that you reveal this person who’s been behind a mask, but every time I look at it, I wish we hadn’t done that.
Molly Ringwald: I just wish that they had just gone further with it and it was really just a bare face.
Ally Sheedy: Yeah, that might’ve worked.
We have the technology now. We could fix it with CGI.
Ally Sheedy: No, no, it is what it is.
Ally, why was “Milk and Cookies” your nickname for Anthony Michael Hall?
Ally Sheedy: Because that’s what he looks like. Doesn’t he look like that? He looks like milk and cookies.
Molly Ringwald: He does. He was such a baby.
Ally Sheedy: And didn’t Sixteen Candles come out while we were shooting?
Molly Ringwald: Yeah.
Ally Sheedy: So Sixteen Candles came out because we rented the screening room. All of a sudden I think Michael started going, “Hey, you know what I mean, I’m like…” He had his birthday or something happened and I just said, “You’re milk and cookies and you will stay milk and cookies to me.” He wasn’t thrilled with that nickname at all.
Oh, he’s still not. It’s on the Blu-ray now.
Molly Ringwald: I can imagine.
Molly, your first three major movies were with John Hughes, so did you just think all movies were like this?
Molly Ringwald: Well, my first movie was Tempest with John Cassavetes, Paul Mazursky directed it, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon. So that was actually for me the hardest movie. All movies were barometers in terms of how great they could be and there’s been some pretty tough competition, but John’s movies, Sixteen Candles and Breakfast Club particularly were the most fun I think.
The Blu-ray also reveals that The Brat Pack was actually a derogatory term originally. Have you taken it back because now it’s endearing?
Molly Ringwald: I don’t really think about it that much.
Ally Sheedy: I don’t either. I mean, sometimes somebody will ask but I think we’ve matured out of the brat thing.
Molly Ringwald: I think so. It originally came from this article that Emilio Estevez, Rob [Lowe] and Judd [Nelson] went out with this reporter.
Ally Sheedy: They did but it was supposed to be just a profile on Emilio and then it became [The Brat Pack]. And then a lot of the actors that just did movies with these guys just all got folded into the term. I don’t think it was considered a good thing but now people think it’s a special little badge of honor.
