The Brat Pack has been through a lot, but time has only strengthened their offscreen friendships.
While discussing Andrew McCarthy‘s new Brats documentary at its Tribeca Film Festival premiere on Friday, Jon Cryer had some less-than-fond memories of his Pretty in Pink (1986) co-star.
“When we made Pretty in Pink, we didn’t get along because he was a d***,” said Cryer on a panel Friday with McCarthy, Ally Sheedy, and Demi Moore, according to Entertainment Weekly.
McCarthy admitted to Cryer, “That’s very true,” as Moore disagreed. “Well I didn’t think he was a d***,” she said.
“Well he wasn’t a d*** to you,” Cryer quipped to Moore, whom he dated while working on their 1984 movie, No Small Affair.
Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer and Andrew McCarthy in ‘Pretty in Pink’
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Cryer later clarified on X (formerly Twitter) that he and Cryer have since mended their friendship. “Not talking out of school here, btw, he was sitting two feet away when I said this,” he noted in a post on Saturday. “And for the record, the man is a prince. We were just too young to understand each other.”
They starred in Pretty in Pink as cool guy Blane (McCarthy) and eccentric nerd Ducky (Cryer), who both vie for the affection of Ducky’s best friend, Andie (Molly Ringwald).
Part of the Brat Pack — a term for a group of young actors of the 1980s who frequently appeared onscreen together — McCarthy explained at Friday’s premiere that he initially found the label “horrible,” but has since come around.
Andrew McCarthy, Ally Sheedy, Demi Moore and Jon Cryer attend a screening of ‘Brats‘ during the Tribeca Film Festival on June 7, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Gary Gershoff / WireImage)
“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.”
They were also joined onstage by casting director Marci Liroff, Pretty in Pink director Howard Deutch, and journalist David Blum, who coined the “Brat Pack” term in his 1985 New York magazine cover story.
Brats premieres Thursday, June 13 on Hulu.