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'Breakfast Club' Cast Reunites For First Time In 40 Years—And Explains Why Film Wouldn't Be Made Today
Can you recognize everyone in their first picture together after 40 years?
This get-together was particularly special, as Estèvez (middle of the second group) has never made any other public appearances with the group.
Ringwald reflected:
"I feel very emotional and moved to have us all together."
"We don't have to use the cardboard cutout [of Estèvez] anymore because he's here. I feel really moved that we're all together."
You can watch the five ascend the stage at the C2E2 Convention here:
Estèvez admitted to the crowd that he frequently missed big events, even high school reunions.
"This was something that finally I felt I needed to do just for myself. This one felt special; it's right here in Chicago where we made the film. It's obviously the 40th anniversary, and it just felt like it was time."
"Somebody told me that Molly said, 'Well, does Emilio just not like us?' and that broke my heart. I went, 'No, of course I love all of them.' And that just made sense, so here I am."
Another anomaly that is important to note is that, with the film industry constantly changing, movies like The Breakfast Club aren't being made anymore.
Estèvez pointed out:
"Movies today are concept-driven, they’re not character-driven, and the beauty of John [Hughes] is that he focused on characters first."
"And when you think about trying to pitch this movie today, and it’s about five kids sitting in a library all day in detention , the studio executives would march you right out the door and say, 'Where are the monsters? Where’s the car chases? Where are the big effects?'"
Fans were stoked to see the whole Club back together again.
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As for a sequel, it's best for everyone to use their imagination.
Judd Nelson confided to the audience:
"I always felt in a weird way that the work was half done, that at some point we would all get back together, because there were too many questions by everyone, like ‘What happens on Monday?’"
"The film is about the fact that everyone has to make that decision for themselves [about] what happens on Monday. But I felt, personally, that it was one shoe and I needed the second shoe, and that could only come from John."
"So his passing was profound for me, because it’s like the work will always be in a circle leaning one direction. What we needed was the one to counterbalance it, because Hughes explained to us the differences between the young and old."
"So now is the time for him to show us where we meet in the end, because we’re all older now, but we’re not going to get that, which is sad. But in a way Hughes has been telling us, ‘Think for yourself.'”
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Part of the magic of The Breakfast Club will always be deciding who you see yourself the most in, and years later, which character you identify with more now.
But there remains, too, that ongoing question of what happened on Monday after detention, and there's magic in knowing that every viewer might give a different answer.
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Disney Heiress Epically Slams 'Sociopath' Billionaires Who Hoard Their Wealth
She is a longtime member of the Patriotic Millionaires, an American organization focused on changing the tax system so that people as rich as—or even richer than—its members pay more income and wealth-based taxes.
And she touched on that again in her latest interview, saying:
"I am of the belief that every billionaire who can’t live on $999 million is kind of a sociopath."
"Like, why? You know, over a billion dollars makes money so fast that it’s almost impossible to get rid of. And so by just sitting on your hands, you become more of a billionaire until you’re a double billionaire."
"It’s a strange way to live when you have objectively more money than a person can spend."
Disney also had some harsh truths for Donald Trump.
"Trump is an inheritor. He never acknowledges it, but he wouldn’t have been able to do any of the things he did without an inheritance."
"He absorbed the lessons of inheriting money almost unfiltered: 'You have this money because you’re special'."
"If you read about his childhood, it’s like the textbook worst way to raise a person—you know, he was violent, he was a bully and he was rewarded for that, even as a very small child. And the more money he had, the more he exhibited these bad qualities, and the more people told him he was wonderful."
Elon Musk faired no better.
Disney stated:
"There are people suffering and dying today because of [Musk's] cut [to the PEPFAR program]. There are children who have HIV who shouldn’t because of Elon Musk. Now. As we sit here and talk."
PEPFAR stands for the President’s Emergency Plan For Aids Relief.
Created in 2003 by the administration of Republican President George W. Bush, the program is estimated to have saved 25 million lives by supplying medicine to people with HIV and AIDS around the world.
The Disney heiress added:
"That natural human proclivity to say, ‘Hmm, that doesn’t feel right’—[Musk] doesn’t have it. Trump doesn’t have it. They’re spending no time in shame, and shame is a righteous emotion."
"It’s not an emotion you want to live in, but it’s an emotion you want as a motivator sometimes. And where is it? Where’s the shame?"
Disney is also an inheritor, but not a wealth hoarder like Musk and Trump. By her 20s, she started donating large chunks of her inheritance—approximately $70 million as of 2021—mostly to organizations that help women.
People applauded her stance.
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Of her own heritage, Disney has stated:
"My grandfather, Roy O. Disney, and his brother, Walt Disney, started The Walt Disney Company. They came from Midwestern American poverty and everything they accomplished was a result of their hard work and creativity."
"[I am rich] only because of some quirks in the tax system, some good luck, and some very loving grandparents. But nothing else."
Her father, Roy E. Disney, was a familiar face in the Disney empire, and Disney herself is a film director and producer.
Her last name—and the privilege that came with it—put her in a unique position to speak about generational wealth and the societal responsibilities that should come with it.
In her 2024 OpEd titled "World leaders have a chance to raise taxes for rich people like me. I’m begging them to take it," Disney wrote:
"The need to tax rich people like me has never been so dire."
"Extreme wealth concentration in the hands of a few oligarchs is a threat to democracy the world over."
