16 Facts About "Sixteen Candles" That Will Make You Want To Watch It Again
There's plenty you didn't know about the film that defined an era.
The actor who played Jake Ryan, Michael Schoeffling, was 23 years old when he took on the role. Molly Ringwald was only 15.Â
The license plate numbers on a lot of the cars correspondent with birthdays or were references to other films.Â
In 2005, she read a script for 32 Candles, but nothing has come of it yet.Â
Bill Murray's brother, Bryan Doyle Murray played the reverend. Jim and John Belushi's mother Agnes appears in a scene as well.Â
He found a stack of headshots belonging to young actors and found a photo of Ringwald. He pinned it to his bulletin board and began writing the script for Sixteen Candles.Â
Gedde Watanabe, who played Long Duk Dong, said that many people were unhappy with his portrayal of the characters and considered it, and the gong sound in the movie, to be racist. Â
There was no air conditioning in the gym because of budget issues. It was over 100 degrees during filming.Â
But that left most of the underage actors without much to do. Their older classmates usually left them to go to bars on weekends.Â
He was Ringwald's pick for the role, because of their instant chemistry, but Hughes disagreed.Â
The 1974 Corniche belonged to a friend of Hughes' father and is worth $66,000 today.
She told Hughes it would be weird for a girls father to ask her what happened to her underwear (which is how Ringwald's father in the movie ends his heart-to-heart with her) and he agreed.Â
He got the part based on his performance in Vacation.Â