![]() It was during this time when the infamous New York magazine article would come out. Elmo's Fire", co-starring Estevez, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Mare Winningham and Demi Moore. McCarthy and Lowe would reunite a few years later on the set of Joel Schumacher's "St. I really should have quit show business right then." "I lived at her house for some time and she used to drive me to auditions occasionally, which is this mind-blowing thing. He would endear himself to Bisset and ended up renting a room in her home. "That kind of naivete and that kind of deer in the headlights was very effective for the part."īy most metrics, the film was a flop, but it introduced McCarthy to Hollywood. I remember they would say, 'OK, go over and hit that mark on the floor' and I was like, 'I'm sorry. I was so out of my depth in a certain way. "I had no idea what the hell was going on. His sense of naivete in one audition worked to his advantage as he worked his way through to a role in the 1983 romp "Class" with fellow acting newcomer, Rob Lowe, and the iconic actress, Jacqueline Bisset. ![]() While at NYU, McCarthy began auditioning and learning the ropes of becoming a professional actor. "Terry kind of saw through all that and said, 'You, stick around.' And it was all I needed." That's what we all want, is someone to hear us and see us," says McCarthy. Everybody just needs someone to see them. Hayden was from the famed method acting mecca, The Actors Studio, and offered some encouragement. "There was something about doing it that just made me feel like I inhabited myself completely for the first time and made me feel like, 'Oh, this is how I'm supposed to feel,'" he recalls.Īdmittedly not an academic stalwart, McCarthy followed this new love to NYU acting school and was on the verge of dropping out when he crossed paths with acting teacher Terry Hayden. He would end up landing the role of Artful Dodger in the musical "Oliver!" and was hooked. McCarthy caught the acting bug in high school when a series of athletic failures and missed bus rides led him to discover the drama club. "If I'd done the same movies and the Brat Pack term had not been invented, we probably wouldn't be having this conversation." But that's turned into a beautiful thing," McCarthy said. ![]() And had I done that right away, it probably would have saved me no end of grief. The public always largely saw it as an affectionate term for these young guys who are in the ultimate 'in' club, and they wish they could be, too. "What I didn't understand at the time was that the public really never saw it that way. He told WPR's " BETA" that he is now able to lean into the association with a warm embrace of an imperfect, but undeniably original time in Hollywood history. It gave me stature while diminishing me, made me a part of something even as it isolated me, gave me a platform and limited my options."īy intentionally titling the book after the label, McCarthy is looking to reclaim it. Yet that label also elevated me even as it weighed me down. "To label anything so easily is to make no further attempt at understanding it. "I had been sideswiped by the tag and then shackled to it," he writes. Today, he keeps most of his film and TV work behind the camera as a director for shows like "Orange Is the New Black."īut now he's released a memoir looking back on that era titled, " Brat: An '80s Story." In the book, McCarthy grapples with the powerful dichotomy of the Brat Pack label and its impact on his career. In fact, McCarthy backed away from acting almost altogether and sought the solace of freelance travel writing. Until recently, McCarthy hasn't revisited his time as one of Tinsel Town's leading men. Elmo's Fire" and "Pretty In Pink." He was also a charter member of an unofficially linked repertoire of actors dubbed "The Brat Pack", along with others like Molly Ringwald, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, and Anthony Michael Hall. He was the star of several 1980s romps and rom-coms like, "Class", "St. For an entire generation, the name and face of actor Andrew McCarthy has the ability to transport them back to their youth.
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