John Cusack Denies Being Offered Breakfast Club Role at 60, Says John Hughes Only Considered Him
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Updated · Fox News · Sep 30
John Cusack Denies Being Offered Breakfast Club Role at 60, Says John Hughes Only Considered Him
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 30
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John Cusack said persistent rumors about him being offered a role in 1985’s “The Breakfast Club” are false, adding John Hughes only briefly seemed to consider him for John Bender.
On Josh Horowitz’s podcast Monday, Cusack said he liked the script and would have done the film, but “it didn’t go that way”; Judd Nelson ultimately played Bender.
Cusack, now 60, said he avoided buying into teen-idol hype because his parents kept him grounded, especially his father Dick Cusack’s warning that celebrity is “death for an artist.”
That outlook shaped a career that started with 1984’s “Sixteen Candles,” another Hughes film, and fed his broader complaint that American cinema has lately gone “flat” compared with earlier, script-driven filmmaking.