is the blueprint — at least according to . “The show is like , except a week later and funnier,” McCarthy, 61, told exclusively while promoting his upcoming documentary, . “[The Brat Pack] started the vanguard of things being about and for young people.
That just didn’t exist in Hollywood like that before that. ..
. The Brat Pack was out in front of that.” McCarthy called the group of young actors — which included himself, , , , and , among others — “ instrumental in the shift towards youth culture” in the 1980s.
The Brat Pack movies, like and , “put friendship at the center,” McCarthy explained. “That was new and different. There weren’t movies about friendship being the most important thing in life, it was always ‘get the guy, get the girl,’” he recalled.
“That’s what movies were about was romance and the thing to be held up as this wonderful thing.” Creating movies and TV shows focused on friendship was “a real seismic change” at the time “that we take for granted now,” McCarthy explained. In Brats — spoiler alert — McCarthy sits down with , including the now 60-year-old Lowe.
The actors discussed the cultural change that the Brat Pack had on Hollywood. “TV shows like , The CW ..
.. all of these things we now take for granted, don’t happen without the Brat Pack,” Lowe declared.
“They just don’t.” While talking with , McCarthy also discussed how it’s hard to recreate a phenomenon like the Brat Pack now because .
