Have you done anything to help them along the way?
So, I don't really feel like I need to give them advice. I think that they're all doing a great job and they're all really down to earth and are really nice people. Molly Ringwald: Well, all of my costars on the show really are smart and they really have their head on their shoulders. What is the best advice you've given your young costars? Certainly the Internet has changed things a lot and texting and cell phones and all of that, but I think the basic personality and everything that teenagers want and everything that teenagers fear is all the same. Molly Ringwald: I don't really think that they are very different. How do you think teens are different today as opposed to back in the 1980s? I also remember watching you in teen films like Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. But, I think once you're a mother, you kind of always see your kids as a baby anyway no matter how old they get. It's kind of like looking into a crystal ball into the future. It's obviously a little bit different for me because I'm playing the mother of a teenager and in real life, I'm the mother of a five-year-old. There's just a way that you have, I think, that you don't quite- It's not in your bones, I think, until you actually are a mother. There are certain things that you feel comfortable with, a way of touching your child's head or a way of like wiping dirt off their face. I think I played mothers before I was actually a mother in my real life, but I think once you experience that, there are just certain things that you just know. Molly Ringwald: Well, I think that once you're a mother, you understand not to say that people who aren't mothers can't play mothers. I wanted to know how does being a mother in real life help you to get into the character of "Anne"? I think that they just work really well together. I think all of the kids in the show are just really charming and smart and they all get along. Molly Ringwald: Well, I think there's a lot of just very charismatic actors on the show. How does the cast continue to maintain such great chemistry between each other?
So, that's always really challenging for me. I think it's always challenging for me to do a show like this, that I'm used to doing movies and theater and I've never really done sort of an episodic show that moves at the fast pace that it goes. That's always sort of a real head trip for me. I feel almost like I'm so known for being a teenager and then all of a sudden, I'm the mother of a teenager. So, it's always interesting to me to kind of- It's like sort of jumping ahead in my life and sort of living what I'm going to be living probably like 10 to 15 years from now. I have a five-year-old and I'm pregnant with twins right now. Molly Ringwald: Well, it's constantly interesting for me to play the mother of teenagers just because I'm not really there in my own life. What about your role continues to challenge you? So, everybody else is still filming and I think that they are off in August, but I've been off since the end of May. Then when I come back from maternity leave, then I'm shooting three episodes back so, just sort of do the catch up.
I shot about 12 episodes and then one day, I shot three episodes in one day, just my part. Molly Ringwald: Yes, I'm actually already on maternity leave. So, I mean I guess that's really, in my mind, what's made it take off.Ĭan you tell us where are you in the filming schedule? How far along is the season, and are you going to have to take some time off for maternity leave or is that going to be filmed? I think we have a lot of great actors in the show and a lot of good charisma and I think Brenda Hampton is really good at writing for these characters. I think that they relate to the characters and I think that it's really well cast. I just think that people just really like the characters. You really never know what's going to strike a chord. I mean you do all these projects and you hope for the best. Molly Ringwald: Well, it's always surprising when something turns out to be such a big hit like this. What do you think it is about the show that makes it so popular, and did that popularity surprise you at all? Ringwald held a conference call to discuss the new season and here's what she had to say. The Secret Life of the American Teenager will premiere its second season on the ABC Family network on Monday, June 22 at 8 PM ET and one of the big reasons the show is getting a second season is the invovlement of Molly Ringwald on the show.
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