presenting the teen experience in a way that resonated with teen audiences. You had studios who were suddenly happy to make films that catered to this lucrative, 14-to-24 demographic, so work was steady. You had ensemble films likewhich had just come out the previous February, that provided the perfect showcases for this abundance of under-30 talent. It was not a coincidence that one of the most hotly anticipated movies of the season,actress who was being singled out as the next It girl.
Fast forward to June — specifically, June 10, 1985 — and suddenly, being a hot, young actor didn’t seem quite as magical as it had the previous month.on your friends and fellow co-stars that painted this new generation of movie stars as rich, entitled, hedonistic celebrities who cared about little other than club-hopping their nights away. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the journalist who’d written the piece had given all of you a catchy, pun-heavy handle. He called you guys “The Brat Pack.
McCarthy pauses, as if he’s lost in thought. “It would have been easy to make a movie about the Brat Pack just being this wonderful thing that people remember,” he says after a few seconds. “But I didn’t want to do a nostalgia piece. I wanted to do something more personal.” The fact that a few prominent actors associated with the label passed on the opportunity to speak about their individual Pack experience only underlines what McCarthy says was his reason for wanting to makein the first place. “Their absence is showing you something, you know, in a very wonderful way,” he notes. “The very mention of ‘the Brat Pack’ brings up a very broad range of intense emotions, so it’s almost like a proof-of-concept for the film.