Emilio Estevez
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"Emilio Estevez" is an American actor, director, and writer. He started his career as an actor and is well known for being a member of the acting Brat Pack (actors)/Brat Pack of the 1980s, starring in The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire (film)/St. Elmo's Fire, and also acting in the 1983 hit movie The Outsiders (film)/The Outsiders. He is also known for Repo Man (1984 film)/Repo Man, The Mighty Ducks and its sequels, Stakeout (1987 film)/Stakeout, Maximum Overdrive, Bobby (2006 film)/Bobby (which he also wrote and directed), and his performances in Western films such as Young Guns (film)/Young Guns and Young Guns II/its sequel.

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My intention with 'Bobby' is not to make a political picture, although the 1968 California primary figures prominently in the story. The film is about being at critical mass -- critical mass in relationships or between race, and the hotel and the characters under its roof serve as a microcosm for what was happening in the country during that time. The entire country was experiencing critical mass.

It was important if you were a 19-year-old man at the time that Bobby Kennedy was (running for) president, because his promise was to get us out of the war, rather than escalate it.

The hotel itself was something of a microcosm of the country at the time, reflecting the racial divisions in the U.S. at the time and how divided people were about Vietnam, ... It was important if you were a 19-year-old man at the time that Bobby Kennedy was elected president because his promise was to get us out of the war rather than escalate it.

In 2000, I found myself at the Ambassador Hotel for a photo shoot with my brother ( Charlie Sheen ), and I remember calling Roger going, 'I think I found it. I'm not sure what the story is, but I think it's going to be about the day Bobby Kennedy was shot. I started to do the research and started writing. I finished it about a week before 9/11.

I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work.