They said, ‘No, no, no, it’s important.
You have to be there.'"
The son of Hollywood iconMartin Sheenhad made a huge impression in 1983 withFrancis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of S.E.

Emilio Estevez in ‘The Breakfast Club’.Credit:Universal/Kobal/Shutterstock
Hinton’s classic coming-of-age novelThe Outsiders.
So he went, hoping to stay awake and alert.
That isn’t what happened.

Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald, and Anthony Michael Hall in ‘The Breakfast Club’.Universal Pictures/Everett Collection
I want to show it to you.’
And we said, ‘Okay great.’
I passed out from the pain pills, and just from the ordeal of having my teeth extracted."

Estevez’s revelation garnered a hearty ripple of laughs from the C2E2 crowd and from his castmates.
And I believed it too," Estevez recalled, himself now laughing.
“I thought, ‘Oh gosh, I just failed the final test.'”

Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald, and Anthony Michael Hall in ‘The Breakfast Club’.Universal Pictures/Everett Collection
Elmo’s Firecastmate McCarthy.
“Working together just almost felt like we were kryptonite to each other.”
you might watch the full 40th anniversary reunion of the cast ofThe Breakfast Clubabove.