Emilio Estevez wasn’t considering clearly when he met his “The Breakfast Club” co-stars.
The celebrities of the 1985 movie reunited for a fortieth anniversary panel on the C2E2 conference in Chicago Saturday, throughout which Estevez, 62, revealed he was excessive on painkillers when the forged and late director John Hughes first bought collectively for a read-through of the script at a lodge in Century Metropolis, Calif.
“I had, the night before, just had all four wisdom teeth pulled — impacted wisdom teeth,” Estevez recalled. “I was on pain pills, and my agent called and said, ‘Listen, they’re going to do the read-through, and you have to show up.’”
“I said, ‘Look, my face is swollen, I’m on pain pills, I’m bleeding out!’ They said, ‘No, no, no, it’s important. You have to be there,’” he shared.
Estevez, who was joined on stage on the conference by Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Corridor, and Ally Sheedy, recalled that he couldn’t drive due to his surgical procedure, so producers had a automotive convey him to the lodge, the place the forged did the primary read-through of the movie’s script.
“At the end of the read-through, John says, ‘Hey listen, I brought the first cut of my movie ‘Sixteen Candles,’ I want to show it to you,’” mentioned Estevez. “And we said, ‘Okay great.’ He puts the film on, we’re sitting there, I don’t think I made it through the opening credits. I passed out from the pain pills and just from the ordeal of having my teeth extracted.”
“I woke up at the end credits, and I looked at Judd, and Judd says, ‘I think you’re getting fired,’” Estevez remembered.
“And I believed it too,” he added. “I thought, ‘Oh gosh, I just failed the final test.’”
“The Breakfast Club” follows 5 highschool college students who’re compelled to spend Saturday in detention collectively for various causes. Estevez performed athlete Andrew Clark.
The movie, thought-about a cult traditional, was written and directed by Hughes, who died of a coronary heart assault in 2009 at age 59.
Saturday’s popular culture conference marked the primary time in 40 years that the 5 stars of the movie had been collectively in public.
Final 12 months, Andrew McCarthy — one other member of the Brat Pack — launched his doc, “Brats.” Corridor, Nelson and Ringwald all determined to decide out of showing within the movie.
“I skipped all my high school reunions, so this was something that finally felt like I needed to do, just for myself,” mentioned Estevez, who missed different “Breakfast Club” reunions up to now.
“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 so it just made sense,” the actor added.
Estevez additionally known as the beloved teen comedy-drama “one of those movies that stands the test of time.”
Later through the panel, the forged shut down the chance that they might do a sequel to “The Breakfast Club.”
“I personally don’t believe in remaking that movie,” mentioned Ringwald, 57, “because I think this movie is very much of its time.”
