CraveOnline: Was The Breakfast Club an ideal shoot, just five actors in a closed school?
Ally Sheedy: Yeah, it was pretty ideal. It wouldn’t have been ideal if we didn’t get along so well, if there wasn’t such unity with us. It could’ve been a nightmare but it ended up being pretty perfect.
Molly Ringwald: And the fact that it was just one location made it possible to shoot in sequence. I think it’s the only film that I’ve ever shot in sequence.
Ally Sheedy: Mm-hmm, same.
Have you visited the high school since?
Ally Sheedy: No.
Molly Ringwald: No.
Ally Sheedy: Well, also that room doesn’t exist. They did film it in a high school but they took a gymnasium and they turned it into a library.
Molly Ringwald: Right, I don’t know if it’s still there.
Ally Sheedy: That actual room is gone.
No wonder it looked like the fanciest library I’ve ever seen in a school.
Molly Ringwald: I know, especially in a public school. That neon light, that great statue.
Ally Sheedy: And it’s a duplex.
Was the dance montage choreographed?
Ally Sheedy: No.
Molly Ringwald: Wait a minute, part of it was.
Ally Sheedy: On the rail.
Molly Ringwald: Yeah, that was the only part of it.
Ally Sheedy: But who was coming up with that?
Molly Ringwald: It was an actual choreographer.
Ally Sheedy: The boys do background.
Molly Ringwald: There was a thing that I couldn’t get.
Ally Sheedy: Oh, you and me doing the feet.
MR Yeah, but we did that because I couldn’t do the other one. I couldn’t get it right.
AR: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, right.
