Molly Ringwald says she was 'really not happy with' Ally Sheedy's “Breakfast Club” makeover: 'I am not responsible'

Molly Ringwald doesn't want to be held responsible for a certain controversial scene in The Breakfast Club.

The popular princess herself recently reunited with her fellow Saturday detention attendees for the "Don't You Forget About Me: The Breakfast Club 40th Anniversary Reunion" at the C2E2 pop culture convention on Saturday.

Sharing the stage with costars Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, and Emilio Estevez, Ringwald was asked to share her take on the fan response to Sheedy's big makeover scene in the 1985 film — and immediately went on the defensive.

"I just want to say that I am not responsible for the makeover," Ringwald announced to the Chicago crowd. "And I was really not happy."

The pivotal scene in question sees goth basket-case Allison (Sheedy) get a makeover from Claire (Ringwald), who disposes of Allison's dark, oversized clothing, pulls her hair away from her face with a frilly ribbon, and dresses her in soft, pink tones. It's drastic enough to make Andrew (Estevez) sit up and ask, "What happened to you?"

Over the years, fans have asked the same question but in a much more critical tone, adamantly voicing their dislike over Claire completely changing Allison's style. And Ringwald agrees.

"I thought that it would've been better just to strip off all of the makeup and just have Ally's face fresh-scrubbed because it's so beautiful," she said at the event. "I didn't like the way that they did her hair at the end… I was not responsible."

The makeover trope is a staple of rom-coms and coming-of-age movies, and The Breakfast Club is no exception. But while many other stories end with the character realizing that true beauty was within them all along, The Breakfast Club ends soon after Allison's transformation, with her new look winning over Andrew.

But not everyone resents the scene. Nelson defended the moment, pointing out that the reasons for it are addressed in the dialogue.

"Those people don't understand, it's explained in the scene. 'Why are you doing this?' 'Because you're letting me,'" he said, parroting the conversation between Claire and Allison. "That's why."

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While Sheedy didn't weigh in on the makeover during the reunion, she has previously admitting to pushing back on it during conversations with writer-director John Hughes. While he did incorporate some of her feedback, the scene remained.

"I don't know if John wrote that or it was a studio thing that they wanted Allison to go from being very plain to being suddenly very glamorous. I didn't like that," Sheedy told Elle in 2015. "I had come up with this thing about her black eye makeup and very pale skin so I thought, 'Could it be more that she's taking this mask off?' John did give me that and they didn't really put a whole bunch of makeup on me; it was more about revealing who Allison is. I wish it had been a little more of that and a little less of, 'Let's make her pretty.'"

She continued, "I'm not a big makeup person and I don't particularly subscribe to the idea that you have to look a certain way to suddenly look gorgeous to everyone. I like how Allison looked anyway. But it was a moment of passage in that movie. It had to do, I guess, with her becoming more part of the group in some way. Not using what she looked like to put people off. To become more inviting in some way. And then Emilio's character had to somehow see her as pretty."

But while she understands the purpose it serves in the story, she added, "I don't think it needed to happen. But I think everybody needed to have their moment of truth and I guess that was something for Allison."

Watch the full reunion of The Breakfast Club cast above.

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