‘Pretty in Pink’ Cast: Where Are They Now?

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‘Pretty in Pink’ Cast: Where Are They Now? Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer and More

The solid of Pretty in Pink is all grown up — however they’ll always remember what it meant to star in the teenager basic all these years in the past.

The 1986 movie marked star Molly Ringwald’s third and last venture with its author, John Hughes, who she had beforehand labored with on 1984’s Sixteen Candles and 1985’s The Breakfast Club.

“He was unlike any other director that I had ever met. He had spiky hair and these crazy sneakers,” Ringwald advised Vogue in March 2021 in honor of Pretty in Pink’s thirty fifth anniversary. “We really clicked and got along almost immediately. I was fairly introverted, but he just had so much confidence in me, to the point that I felt like I could do anything.”

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In the movie, Ringwald performed Andie Walsh, a excessive schooler whose thrift retailer wardrobe made her an outcast along with her extra prosperous friends together with her bully, Steff McKee (James Spader), and her crush, Blane McDonough (Andrew McCarthy).

However, Hughes, who handed away in 2009, was so enamored with the then 17-year-old redhead’s fashion that he wrote the script along with her in thoughts.

“At that point in my life I also just really liked pink — Andie’s room was basically modeled after my own,” Ringwald revealed to the journal. “The prop people even took a collage from my personal bedroom and used it in the movie for Andie’s room, if that tells you anything.”

The costumes in the movie had been additionally impressed by Ringwald’s actual wardrobe — however the former teen star hated Andie’s Pepto-Bismol-colored promenade robe. She even “burst into tears” when she first noticed it.

“I kept all of the clothes except for that dress because I hated it so much,” the California native advised Vogue. “And of course now I wish I could frame it!”

Ringwald didn’t get to put on the costume of her goals in the movie’s large finale — however her character did get the person of hers. That wasn’t at all times the plan, although. Pretty in Pink initially ended with Andie selecting her bestie Phil “Duckie” Dale (Jon Cryer) over Blane. However, early screenings of the movie discovered that audiences wished to see their main girl get the man she had been pining for all alongside, not her nerdy pal.

When requested concerning the preliminary reactions to the ending, director Howard Deutch advised Den of Geek in June 2020, “I had a heart attack because it was my first movie and we were in the screening room. … These kids that they recruited to watch the movie were screaming, loving the movie, screaming. It was like a hit! And then all of a sudden, the minute the ending came and Duckie was gonna be the hero they started booing.”

Deutch was compelled to return and filmed a brand new ending in which Andie bought her fortunately ever after with Blane, which he nonetheless believes was the appropriate selection.

“I think it was [Princess Bride director] Rob Reiner [who] said, ‘You can’t have the princess get the frog,’” he famous. “In other words, you have to give the women what they want and they wanted [Andie] to have what she wanted. She wanted the cute boy and forget the politics.”

Keep scrolling to see what Ringwald and the remainder of the solid are as much as all these years later:

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Molly Ringwald

After Pretty in Pink, Ringwald would go on to star in the coming-of-age comedy For Keeps, earlier than taking part in the grownup in teen films like Teaching Mrs. Tingle, Jem and the Holograms and Netflix’s Kissing Booth trilogy. She was a daily on Freeform’s Secret Life of the American Teenager from 2008 to 2013 earlier than becoming a member of the solid of Riverdale in 2017. One 12 months later, she battled her Pretty in Pink costar Jon Cryer on the musical actuality competitors collection Drop the Mic. She launched her debut jazz album, Except Sometimes, in 2013.

Ringwalf was married to French author Valéry Lameignère from 1999 to 2002 earlier than she moved on with Greek creator Panio Gianopoulos. The pair welcomed their first youngster, daughter Mathilda, in 2003 earlier than getting married 4 years later. In 2009, they grew to become mother and father to fraternal boy-girl twins, Roman and Adele.

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Jon Cryer

As Andie’s iconic bestie — and unrequited crush — Duckie, Cryer bought to indicate off his lip-syncing abilities to Otis Redding’s “Try a Little Tenderness.” Now he’s finest identified for his 12-season run on Two and Half Men, which ran from 2003 to 2015. The position of Alan Harper received him two Emmy Awards in 2009 and 2012 for Outstanding Supporting Actor and Lead Actor, respectively. He went on to look as Lex Luthor on Supergirl, Arrow, The Flash and Batwoman after beforehand taking part in Lex’s nephew, Lenny, in the 1987 movie, Superman IV: The Quest For Peace. He launched his memoir, So That Happened, in 2015.

Cryer married leisure reporter Lisa Joyner in 2007. The two adopted their daughter, Daisy, two years later. He shares a son, Charlie Austin, born in 2000, together with his ex-wife, British actress Sarah Trigger, whom he was with from 1999 to 2004.

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Andrew McCarthy

After taking part in Andie’s crush Blane, the previous Brat Packer went on to star in in style ‘80s films including Mannequin, Less Than Zero and Weekend at Bernie’s. He later directed TV exhibits reminiscent of Orange Is the New Black, Gossip Girl and The Blacklist, starring his Pretty in Pink costar James Spader. He grew to become a widely known journey author and revealed the memoir, The Longest Way Home, in 2012. He can also be the creator of the 2017 YA novel, Just Fly Away, and launched his autobiography, Brat: An ’80s Story, in 2021.

McCarthy married his school sweetheart, Carol Schneider, in 1999 — 20 years after they first began relationship. The two welcomed a son, Sam, in 2002, however divorced three years later. The New Jersey native bought remarried in 2011 to Irish author and director Dolores Rice, with whom he shares two youngsters, Willow and Ronan, born in 2006 and 2014, respectively.

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James Spader

His Pretty in Pink character Steff McKee was an boastful belief fund child that moviegoers cherished to hate. The Boston native has since made a reputation for himself in cult movies that viewers love to look at reminiscent of Secretary, Stargate and Sex, Lies and Videotape. In the 2000s, he landed memorable roles on TV exhibits together with The Practice, Boston Legal, The Blacklist and The Office. He was additionally the voice of the titular villain in Avengers: The Age of Ultron.

Spader was married to decorator Victoria Kheel from 1987 and 2004. The pair share two sons, Sebastian and Elijah, born in 1989 and 1992, respectively. He started relationship actress Leslie Stefanson, in 2002. They welcomed their son, Nathanael, six years later.

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Annie Potts

Potts’ character, Iona, was a mentor to Andie — and an ‘80s style icon. So, it’s solely becoming that she went on to star in the CBS sitcom Designing Women from 1986 to 1993. She performed Janine Melnitz in Ghostbusters and its sequel, in addition to the 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife. She can also be the voice of Little Bo Peep in Toy Story, Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 4. She has performed Connie “Meemaw” Tucker in the Big Bang Theory prequel collection, Young Sheldon, since 2017.

Potts married her fourth husband, James Hayman, in 1990. The pair welcomed two sons, James “Doc” and Harry, in 1992 and 1996, respectively. She can also be mom to Clay, born in 1981, whom she shares along with her third husband, Scott Senchal. Potts was married to Senchal from 1981 to 1989.