Molly Ringwald on Feud: Capote vs the Swans: 'Truman self-destructed in such a public way... just like Kanye'

Molly Ringwald, the legendary star of The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink, returns to the screen this week in the deliciously scandalous Disney+ show Feud: Capote vs the Swans, about Truman Capote and his devastated falling out with New York’s wealthy socialite wives. It’s a role that takes her right back.

“I was in an adaptation of his story, The Grass Harp, and I did that when I was three and a half,” she tells me. It was a community theatre performance in which she played an infant dubbed Fig Newton by the cast.

“He was a writer that I knew about even before I knew about Dr Seuss or normal kids’ writers. And it was kind of an intriguing name for a child. I mean, ‘Truman