The Breakfast Club cast have an emotional reunion 40 years later and reveal if theyd do a sequel

Detention is back in session.The cast of “The Breakfast Club” — Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall, Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy — reunited Saturday during a panel at the C2E2 convention in Chicago.The event marked the first time that the five actors were together publicly since the cult classic film came out in 1985.“I feel really very emotional and moved to have us all together,” Ringwald, 57, told the crowd during the panel moderated by Josh Horowitz for a live taping of his “Happy Sad Confused” podcast.Ringwald also noted that the pop culture convention was the first time Estevez, 62, was involved in a reunion with the cast.“We don’t have to use the cardboard cutout anymore because he’s here,” she joked, adding, “I feel really moved that we’re all together.”“I skipped all my high school reunions, so this was something that finally felt like I needed to do, just for myself,” said Estevez.

“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 so it just made sense.” Estevez also said that the film directed by the late John Huges “is one of those movies that stands the test of time.”Nelson, 65, recalled that Hughes, who died of a heart attack in 2009, “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.”Hall, 56, added that “no one matches that.

No one’s come close” to their experience working with Hughes.“His passing was profound for me, because it’s like the work will always be in a circle leaning one direction,” Nelson explained.“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, wh...