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Andrew McCarthy Explains Why Hated the Term ‘Brat Pack’: ‘I Felt Unseen’

'Pretty in Pink' star Andrew McCarthy says that after he got grouped in with the other young actors taking Hollywood by storm in the '80s as 'The Brat Pack,' his career took a hit. 'Nobody wants to be labeled.'

“It changed my life,” McCarthy, 61, tells PEOPLE of the coming-of-age drama about seven college grads that also starred Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy and Mare Winningham. So when he and his colleagues, including Pretty in Pink costar Molly Ringwald, started gaining major traction, he thinks it rubbed some people the wrong way. In his new documentary Brats(streaming June 13 on Hulu), the actor visits old friends and costars like Estevez, Lowe, Moore and Sheedy to explore the impact the label had on them.

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