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Andrew McCarthy Opens Up About ‘Stigmatizing’ Brat Pack Label, Wearing a ‘Cheap Wig’ in ‘Pretty in Pink’ and the ‘Unfortunate’ Way Virginia Madsen Was Treated on the ‘Class’ Set
Andrew McCarthy tackles the Hollywood era that spawned such teen classics as 'Pretty in Pink' and 'The Breakfast Club' in the new documentary 'Brats.'
Elmo’s Fire.” The piece, written by David Blum, followed three of the film’s stars — Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe and Judd Nelson — over several nights of heavy boozing and douchey antics, like ogling Playmates, encouraging groupies and trash-talking their rivals. Wearing jeans and a button-down shirt, a pair of reading glasses perched atop his graying hair, he looks more like a prep-school teacher than the high school heartthrob who once wooed Molly Ringwald in “Pretty in Pink” and made teens girls across America swoon. McCarthy, who has been sober since 1992 and carved out a lane as an in-demand TV director of such shows as “Orange Is the New Black,” “The Blacklist” and “Gossip Girl” in recent years, wanted to take a more sophisticated approach; his goal was to explore the double-edged sword of Brat Packdom and find out if any of his cohorts suffered similarly.
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