- Molly Ringwald, King Lear, 1987. Due as Cordelia opposite her father’s Lear when the bilious realisateur Jean-Luc Goard started shooting the eventual Cannon mess (what else?) in Switzerland during August 1986. Within a few days (almost hours), it was all off. Mailer hated Godard’s dialogue and wanted to write his own – when appearing as himself. He went back home to direct his own Cannon mess, Tough Guys Don’t Dance – without even a compensatory role for poor Kate. Father and daughter did appear in Godard’s unholy mess (Godard detested it) – as themelves. Kate only ever made one other film, a TV mini-series and a short. When Ringwald saw the film with “it was just as confusing as it had been when I filmed it… the fact that in 2012 Richard Brody put it first on his list of the “Greatest Films of All Time still bewilders me.”
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