‘Brats’ Director Andrew McCarthy On How The Initially “Horrible” Brat Pack Label Became “A Blessing”
deadline.comAt the Tribeca world premiere of Brats, actor-turned-director Andrew McCarthy said the Brat Pack Label, which he had “received as horrible,” turned into a “blessing.” That unlikely arc was actually what compelled him to make the film, McCarthy said Friday night during a post-screening Q&A. “I turned 60 last year, and you start to look at your life a little differently,” he said. “I looked back at this seminal moment in my past, that I’d been dragging around for so many years, and it seemed frozen in the past.
And I wanted to bring it up into my present. And by examining it, I could sort of honor it. And if I honored it, it started to turn into a blessing.
And then I was fascinated by the journey.” McCarthy was joined onstage by acting contemporaries Ally Sheedy, Demi Moore and Jon Cryer, along with casting director Marci Liroff, Pretty in Pink director Howard Deutch and journalist David Blum.
The group, along with Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Rob Lowe and Molly Ringwald, were labeled the Brat Pack in Blum’s cover story in New York magazine in 1985.
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