For the first time in 40 years, the cast of The Breakfast Club has reunited, decades after they spent that infamous detention together.
Lovers of the iconic 1985 film are in a frenzy after seeing Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez and Anthony Michael Hall on stage together at a pop culture convention in Chicago.
Speaking at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo with her former co-stars, Molly Ringwald, who played snobby popular girl Claire Standish in the movie, opened up about the “emotional” reunion.
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“I feel very emotional and moved to have us all together,” Ringwald, 57, said during the panel.
“I skipped all my high school reunions, so this was something that finally felt like I needed to do, just for myself,” Estevez, 62, who played jock Andrew in the film, added.
“But this one felt special because it’s here in Chicago where we made the film, it’s the 40th anniversary and I just love all of them [his castmates], so it just made sense.”
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The Breakfast Club was a defining film of the ’80s, following a mismatched group of teenagers who were all forced to spend a Saturday at school in detention.
“This is one of those movies that stands the test of time,” Estevez said.The Breakfast Club.
“It’s a cross-generational film … we were lucky enough to be at the right place at the right time.”
Ringwald noted during the panel that it was Estevez’s first time reuniting with the cast, joking, “We don’t have to use the cardboard cutout anymore. I feel really moved that we’re all together.”
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During the panel, the cast spoke about the film’s director, John Hughes, who was also behind Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink.
“Hughes meant it when he said to us to participate in the process of making this movie,” Nelson, 65, said.
“He liked us, I didn’t know how rare it was going to be for a director to like actors… He’s the first writer who could write a character who was young without them being less.”
The cast’s heartwarming reunion comes just one year after Ringwald confessed why she thought a remake of The Breakfast Club wouldn’t work.
Speaking to Evening Standard, Ringwald admitted the 1985 film would “be very different” if remade in a modern context.
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“I feel like they’re really very much of their time… at least of the John Hughes movies, they weren’t based on source material like Breakfast at Tiffany’s was,” Ringwald said.
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“It’s not like reinterpreting a book. I think if you were to do any of those movies again, they would really have to represent a different time,” she shared.
Ringwald told the outlet that her films would survive a modern remake if they were “more diverse.”
“The Breakfast Club, for one, it would be very different now. I mean, for one thing, we would all be on our phones,” she added.
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