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I Think I Was, Like, 23 Or Something [on The Breakfast Club]. I Was The Oldest Of The Five. Emilio [estevez] And Ally [sheedy] Were A Year Younger. The Only Real Difference Was That Molly [ Ringwald] And Michael [hall] Still Had To Go To School. They Could Shoot, Like, A Half Day. So A Lot Of My Close Coverage Was Done With Molly's Stand-in, So Molly Could Do Her Schoolwork.

It's More Like The Inner Workings Of John Bender. He Feels Like He's Been Given A Short Shrift, He's Not Been Provided The Opportunities That Maybe These Other Kids Have. So He Feels Like He Begins In A Hole. And Instead Of Trying To Raise Himself Up, He Wants To Bring All Of Them Down. That's A Dynamic That's Pretty Universal. And So That Was The Real Foothold On That. It Wasn't Like, "oh, My High School Experience Is Like John Bender's [in St. Elmo's Fire]."

I Just Couldn't Go Back To Suddenly Susan After David Strickland's Suicide. I Didn't See How We Could Make The Show Light And Funny Any More.

[st. Elmo's Fire] It Was Pretty Soon After That. I Know We Didn't Do Breakfast Club Knowing We Were Going To Do That.