Emilio Estevez destined to make ‘Bobby’

With a little help from Charlie
It took a long time to reach that point, though. In summer 2001, severe writer’s block had Estevez stuck at 30 pages on the script. After a friendly rebuke from his brother, Estevez packed up and checked into an inn near Pismo Beach, north of Los Angeles, where the specter of Robert Kennedy again touched his life.

The hotel desk clerk recognized him and asked what he was doing there. Estevez told her he was writing a film about Kennedy. She told him she had been there, at the Ambassador Hotel, the night Kennedy was shot.

The woman became the inspiration for Lohan’s character, who is about to wed an old friend (Wood) in hopes the marriage will keep him from getting sent to Vietnam. Estevez’s writer’s block was gone.

“Isn’t that really the thing? It’s one thing to have a great idea, but people who can complete a task, that is ultimately, I think, the formula for winning,” said Stone, who plays the hotel’s compassionate hairdresser in “Bobby.”

Estevez now hopes to continue his career revival with a balance of directing and acting in other filmmakers’ movies.

“Little by little, I’m getting my confidence back,” Estevez said. “Was it the great leaders of the world that always used to have somebody sitting next to them saying, ‘It’s only fleeting, it’s only fleeting’?

“It’s true. Especially having survived the last decade the way I have, I know that maybe better than most in this business.”

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