Emilio Estevez has reflected on how the “ Brat Pack ” moniker impacted his career and the other actors under the collective nickname. Estevez, son of Martin Sheen , appears in the new documentary Brats by fellow Brat Pack member Andrew McCarthy . The term “Brat Pack” – a play on the Sixties’ Rat Pack that surrounded Frank Sinatra – was coined by journalist Mark Blum in the summer of 1985, after he joined McCarthy, Estevez, Judd Nelson, Rob Lowe and Robert Downey Jr for a night on the town.
They and other up-and-coming actors including Molly Ringwald and Demi Moore were deemed the enfants terribles of Hollywood at the time and often appeared in movies together in the Eighties. “I get the most upset about it because I had already seen a different path for myself, and I felt derailed. I didn’t do a movie because of it,” Estevez told McCarthy in the documentary.
“This was Young Men With Unlimited Capital , which was one of the best scripts I had read in a long time.” McCarthy admitted he was also asked to do Young Men With Unlimited Capital , but learnt that The Mighty Ducks actor “didn’t want” him to participate in the film. “I didn’t want to have anything to do with any of us.
Do you know what I mean?” Estevez reassured him. “I just didn’t want to do any movies. If it were Judd, I would have said the same thing.
“To be seen again in another film would ultimately and could potentially have a negative impact. Working together just almost .
