Andrew McCarthy shades his own movie ‘Pretty in Pink’: ‘I didn’t think it was very interesting’
nypost.com“Pretty in Pink” at the time that it came out.“I didn’t think it was that interesting,” said McCarthy, 61, in an interview with PEOPLE published Saturday. “I didn’t quite get the movie at the time.
I thought, this is a movie about a girl wanting to go to a dance and make a dress, [and] if so who cares?” he added.Directed by Howard Deutch and written by John Hughes, “Pretty in Pink” follows middle-class student Andie (Molly Ringwald), a budding designer who creates her own clothes.
She falls in love with rich kid Blane McDonough (McCarthy).The film, which also starred Harry Dean Stanton, Jon Cryer, Annie Potts, and James Spader, has stood the test of time and is considered a classic from the ’80s.Nearly 40 years since the movie came out, McCarthy acknowledged that he was “wrong” in his criticism at the time.“I finally got it years later, but at the time, I didn’t think it was very interesting.
It just sort of escaped me,” he said.The actor also explained why he thinks the film is still so beloved today.“They gave people credit for [being] young people, credit for real emotions and they took them seriously,” he said. “That’s why those movies hold up because of the emotions.”He added: “The hairdos are funny, the music kind of old fashioned, but the emotions are the same.”“Pretty in Pink” was one of the many movies from the ’80s to feature members of the Brat Pack.
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