This story made me so happy, seeing my favorite 80s actress, a star from one of my guilty pleasures from the 90s and my second favorite designer from Project Runway together at one event! John Hughes’ muse Molly Ringwald joined Clueless star Alicia Silverstone and designer Christian Siriano, who designed both actresses’ outfits for the premiere of the film King Cobra. The actresses dazzled on the red carpet at Saturday’s Tribeca Film Festival in Manhattan. It’s hard to believe Molly is 48 and Alicia is 39. Let’s all ponder on how time flies. They look great though, don’t they?

King Cobra, produced and starring James Franco, is based on a true story of murder and scandal in the gay porn industry. Would you expect anything less from a James Franco project? Christian Slater, from Heathers – if you want to keep the nostalgia train rolling here, plays a gay porn producer who discovers up and coming star Brent Corrigan, played by Garrett Clayton (from TV’s The Fosters). When Brent wants out of his contract, Slater’s character hires two rival porn producers, played by James Franco and Pretty Little Liars star Keegan Allen, to rub him out. Molly and Alicia have cameo roles in the film, which was directed by Justin Kelly and is based on the book Cobra Killer: Gay Porn, Murder, and the Manhunt to Bring the Killers to Justice by Peter A. Conway and Andrew E. Stoner.

Christian Slater said the role of a gay porn producer was completely out of his comfort zone, telling Variety:

I remember when I saw ‘Brokeback Mountain’ and I had such a visceral reaction to that movie, and thought, ‘Oh my god, I could never do anything like that.’ And as I’ve gotten older, I think I have gotten less judgmental about things and hopefully a little bit more mature about these subject matters.

I’ve never played a homosexual before and I just didn’t want to, I guess bring any stereotypical nonsense to it, or do any kind of caricature-y type things that I’ve seen in other films. I just wanted to be a human being who happens to like young men.

[From Variety]

Molly, who has kept a low profile since her series The Secret Life of the American Teenager was cancelled in 2013, told the audience at a post-screening Q&A, “I was just happy to be in a movie where all the guys had to take off their clothes.”

I hadn’t hear about this project until now, but after hearing about the plot and getting a sneak peek of James Franco and Keegan Allen working out, I may have to add this to my “must see” list. I’m getting a Boogie Nights vibe here, and I love that flick. James Franco is delightfully eccentric and the addition of Molly and Alicia makes this an interesting prospect for the next time I’m at the cineplex.

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