You Have To Kind Of Roll With

My Brat Pack Buddies And I Didn't Exactly Handle Celebrity Very Well. Success At An Early Age Is Far More Difficult To Handle Than Failure.

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]."

[john] Hughes Was Well Aware That To Ignore The Seriousness Of Young People Is To Encourage Things Like Columbine, So You Might Want To Listen. And We Were All Pretty Serious, A Little Bit, In High School. Some A Little More Than Others.

There Were A Few Things That, In Rehearsal, Any One Of Us Might Try. [john] Hughes Would Go, "i Like That," To Me Spitting Up In The Air And Catching It In My Mouth. It Was Just Something I Did In A Rehearsal And Molly [ Ringwald] Went, "ewww." And John Went, "can You Do That Again?" And I Went All Day Long, And He Was Like, "okay, Let's Do That."

Breakfast Club Was Great Because We Had A Real Rehearsal, And We Shot Primarily In Sequence.