Molly Ringwald Calls ‘The Breakfast Club’ ‘Very White’

Molly Ringwald wants fans to forget about a remake of “The Breakfast Club.”

The actress, 57, dismissed the possibility of remaking the 1985 teen comedy-drama about five high school students in detention during a panel, “Don’t You Forget About Me: ‘The Breakfast Club’ 40th Anniversary Reunion,” at the C2E2 pop culture convention in Chicago on Saturday.

“I personally don’t believe in remaking that movie, because I think this movie is very much of its time,” said Ringwald, who played popular girl Claire Standish.

“It resonates with people today,” she continued. “I believe in making movies that are inspired by other movies but build on it and represent what’s going on today. This is very, you know, it’s very white, this movie. You don’t see a lot of different ethnicities. We don’t talk about gender. None of that. And I feel like that really doesn’t represent our world today.”

“So I would like to see movies that are inspired by ‘The Breakfast Club’ but take it in a different direction,” Ringwald added.

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