Rob Lowe slams ‘horrible’ Brat Pack label: ‘It was designed to belittle us’
nypost.comRob Lowe has learned to live with the Brat Pack moniker despite calling it “horrible.” The “9-1-1: Lone Star” actor, 60, opened up about the infamous label attributed to him and fellow actors Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Andrew McCarthy and Judd Nelson during the start of their careers in the 1980s, in a new interview with People.
The Brat Pack as a concept was born when New York Magazine ran a story on the young actors in June 1985. “Hollywood’s Brat Pack,” the cover shouted above a photo of Lowe, Nelson and Estevez on the set of their movie “St.
Elmo’s Fire.”“The article was horrible,” Lowe told People. “It was a hit piece, there’s no doubt about it. It was designed to belittle us, make us look small, with that journalistic trick of plausible deniability.”The New York Magazine piece described the Brat Pack as being “to the 1980s what the Rat Pack was to the 1960s — a roving band of famous young stars on the prowl for parties, women and a good time.”Despite his disdain for the article, he said, “I actually came out okay in it.”“It was the one night I went home early.
What a rarity. So somebody was looking out for me,” he added, referring to the night he and his “St. Elmo’s” co-stars spent with interviewer David Blum.He added that the Brat Pack label “probably didn’t help our credibility … in the industry.” But there was a silver lining.
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