Molly Ringwald wasn’t fond of her time on “The Secret Life of the American Teenager.” On a Tuesday, Aug. 4 episode of “Watch What Happens Live,” the 58-year-old “Breakfast Club” actress rated her experience on the teen drama series a “one out of 10.” When host Andy Cohen asked her to rate various projects, she bluntly described the show as “the worst.”
Ringwald clarified that she enjoyed working with the rest of the cast, including series star and her on-screen daughter, Shailene Woodley. However, she recalled one specific, difficult co-worker who soured the experience. “There was one person that was really difficult and I’m not going to say who that person is,” she explained. When Cohen asked if that individual was the reason for the low score, Ringwald confirmed it. She played the character Anne Juergens for 96 episodes of the ABC Family series, which ran for five seasons from 2008 to 2013.
Throughout the segment, she also rated her experience on other projects, giving her hit 1986 film “Pretty in Pink” a perfect score of 10, adding, “that was pretty great.” She said the fact that director John Hughes wrote the project for her made it extra special. “I actually have a collage that I made myself in the bedroom,” she noted. “Except for the prom dress, I loved all my costumes.”
The actress also provided scores for several other titles in her filmography. She gave the sitcoms “The Facts of Life” and “Diff’rent Strokes” a score of two; 2001’s “Not Another Teen Movie” a four; 1999’s “Teaching Mrs. Tingle” an eight; and 2015’s “Jem and the Holograms” a seven.
Ringwald remains widely recognized for her iconic roles in 1980s teen movie classics like “Sixteen Candles,” “The Breakfast Club,” and “Pretty in Pink,” as well as her later television work in CW’s “Riverdale” and Netflix’s “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.” She is also set to appear in the upcoming romantic comedy film “One Night Only,” which arrives in theaters nationwide on Friday, Aug. 7, alongside co-stars Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro.
