Molly Ringwald:

For me, just like when I'm playing a role, I feel completely a part of it. You know, I felt very affected by it. I felt like I knew Maria. I felt like I knew Vanessa. I mean, it was, I worked on it for such a long time that it really, I felt like I was a part of that story. Vanessa talks about drugs a lot, because even though Maria didn't want to talk about drugs, when she had finished with that story, it was still a big part of her life. And consequently, a big part of Vanessa's life, you know.

And I think there's not many of us who haven't been affected by drugs in some way, that don't know somebody who hasn't struggled, you know, with addiction. And there's a scene that Vanessa wrote of being in line, and watching a young man, probably about the same age as her going through withdrawal. And she's — the young boys with his parents and she can see that the parents are trying to, you know, sort of have a semblance of a normal life. And the boy can't do it, and he takes. And the father lets him take his wallet out of his jacket.

And they know that he's going to go off and, you know, and do drugs and they don't know when they're going to see him again. And that scene every time I would work on it, it would make me cry because I know what that's like to love someone and to not know if they're going to come back or how they're going to get through it. And that was very emotional. So it wasn't, it's not — the book for me is not just the story of Maria, but it is also the story of Vanessa and watching somebody that she admires and that she loves, struggle with drugs. And so that was something that was that was really good. That was really important for me to get right.

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