Jon Cryer and Andrew McCarthy did not shy away from discussing the longtime animosity that came along with the glaring spotlight of being young Brat Pack actors. And the two recently shared how they finally buried the hatchet as adults. “When we had done ‘Pretty in Pink’ together, we did not get along because he was a d—,” Cryer said Friday at a screening for McCarthy’s new documentary, “Brats.
” “That’s very true,” McCarthy said during the Q&A, according to People . The actors, who co-starred in the 1986 movie written by John Hughes, apparently spent years on each other’s bad side, not unlike their high-school characters Duckie and Blane, who both harbored feelings for Molly Ringwald’s Andie. Cryer, 59, who went on to win two Emmys for “Two and a Half Men,” said a fateful 2012 meeting in a greenroom for “The View” helped them make amends.
McCarthy, 61, who went on to direct in TV and film, confirmed that he apologized to his former co-star, and Cryer described it as “a lovely moment.” “It was lovely because it was like within a moment, it was just so clear that we were teenagers and that does not, that in no way defines who we are now and it was just so lovely. It was immediately warm,” Cryer said.
Cryer, McCarthy and several other members of the Brat Pack reunited Friday at the “Brats” world premiere in New York. The actors appear in the new documentary about what it meant to be part of that group, which got its sensational sobri.
