I had the priviledge of being at C2E2 2025 over the weekend and it was quite an experience, but what shocked me the most when they were announcing the guest lists wasn’t that we’d get a mini-Lord of the Rings reunion, or that much of the Baldur’s Gate 3 voice cast would be there, but instead, that the five main cast members of The Breakfast Club would be there. Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, and Ally Sheedy hadn’t been together for a very long time, but with the film celebrating its 40th anniversary, this was the time to show that they still loved that time in their lives.
PopVerse was able to record the whole thing for those who couldn’t be there, and trust me when I say it was a PACKED house. The main stage area where the panel took place was filled to capacity and they even had a “satellite” room where they streamed the panel live and it was filled to the brim as well.
If you’re curious about why The Breakfast Club took so long to get back together, Emilio Estevez arguably said it best with:
“I skipped all my high school reunions, so this was something that finally felt like I needed to do, just for myself. 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 [cast] so it just made sense.”
The film’s late director, John Hughes, was also a subject of much talk during the panel, and Judd Nelson couldn’t help but praise him constantly:
“Hughes meant it when he said to us to participate in the process of making this movie. 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.”
Molly Ringwald shared with the C2E2 an incredibly touching story about watching the film with her daughter when she said:
“It changed my parenting, watching with her…but how it spoke to her, which character she identified with and why, opened up this incredible conversation. If you would have told me when I was 16 years old, one day I would be watching that movie with my 10-year-old and it changed the way that I parent…it’s just mind blowing.”
That just goes to show that The Breakfast Club endures even four decades later. So, “Don’t you…” forget to watch the panel by clicking the link above!
