Molly Ringwald's Daughter Reveals Acting Advice Her Mom Gave Her Before Joining the Industry (Exclusive)

The star's daughter has a supporting role in the upcoming movie 'The Idea of You'

Molly Ringwald's daughter is taking after her mom.

While attending the American Ballet Theatre Fall 2023 Gala, the Breakfast Club actress, 55, spoke with PEOPLE exclusively about daughter Mathilda's entry into acting. Mathilda is set to have a supporting role in Michael Showalter's film, The Idea of You.

Asked how she is passing the torch, the proud mom says that it's "something that we thought a lot about. She learned how to do it before but it's a hard job and I think she knows what she's in for."

As for what her mom taught her, Mathilda, 20, says, "Everything! Be prepared to wait and be nice, which you should always be anyways."

"Remember people's names," Ringwald adds.

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Ringwald is mom to daughter Mathilda and twins Adele and Roman, 14, whom she shares with husband Panio Gianopoulos.

In 2021, Ringwald said on SiriusXM's Radio Andy that she's hesitant to watch her classic 1980s films with her youngest kids given some of the movies' outdated themes and moments considered offensive in today's modern lens.

"It definitely is a different time. People ask me if I've watched them with my kids, and I did watch the first one...with Mathilda. And it was such an emotional experience that I haven't found that strength to watch it with my two other kids," she explained.

Ringwald — known for classic teen comedies like Sixteen Candles (1984), Pretty in Pink (1986) and The Breakfast Club (1985) — continued with a laugh, "My 12-year-old daughter Adele is the most woke individual that you've ever met, and I just don't know how I'm gonna go through that, you know, watching it with her and [her] saying, 'How could you do that? How could you be part of something that....' "

Although she now wants to become an actress, Ringwald's daughter Mathilda grew up without a TV for several years and was not interested in following in her mom's footsteps at first. "For years we didn't have a television. The first few years Mathilda was alive, we didn't have a TV, and then we finally broke down and got one," Ringwald told Mother Jones in April 2010.

However, Mathilda still came to the conclusion that she wanted to act. "My [eldest] daughter wants to be an actress," Ringwald told Yahoo! News in August 2021, adding, "She's pretty serious about it."

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