had a brief conversation with regarding her involvement in his documentary — but she ultimately decided not to appear in the film. “She said she’d think about it and that was really the end of It,” McCarthy, 60, told his upcoming film. The McCarthy-directed is a look back at the Brat Pack with some of the biggest stars from the 1980s — who actually hated the moniker.
The Brat Pack name came from a New York Magazine interview written by in 1985. , , , and all spoke to McCarthy in about how being associated with the title impacted their careers. “We felt sort of, in a weird way, very alone in this thing because we interpreted it as one thing and the whole rest of the public interpreted it entirely differently,” McCarthy explained to .
“That’s all any of us ever want in life is to be seen, and we suddenly felt unseen in a certain way.” While Ringwald, 56, “has a lot to say ” via archived footage, McCarthy admitted it “would’ve been great” to speak with her. “She’s so articulate and insightful about these things,” he explained.
“The Brat Pack’s a funny thing. It’s like an octopus — it has these long tentacles you still reach out and you can either feel them as an embrace or as something [else]. People are at different places in their lives.
” McCarthy admittedly “wanted to talk to 50 more people” about their experiences in the Brat Pack but “time” and “money” held him back. The opening scene in showed McCarthy cold-calling .
