He didn’t want to light those 16 candles again. The Hulu documentary “Brats” (now streaming) about the famous Brat Pack has some big omissions. It covers the famous group of ’80s stars, including Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Ally Sheedy and Andrew McCarthy — but notably, Anthony Michal Hall and Molly Ringwald don’t appear, and Judd Nelson participates in it only briefly.
Hall, 56, broke his silence about why he declined to participate. “I was asked to be a part of it, but you know what, I’ll tell you my attitude is you have to wish everyone success. It was just something I chose not to do because I’m always trying to move forward and make new things and do new stuff,” Hall told TV Insider, in an interview published Tuesday.
The documentary follows director McCarthy – who was himself a member of the Brat Pack, co-starring in “Pretty In Pink” and “St. Elmo’s Fire” – as he tracks down his former compatriots to reflect on how they felt about the “Brat Pack” label defining them. In the doc, Lowe, 60, says, “No one liked [the Brat Pack label].
I don’t want to come off seeming like I’m so Pollyanna that I don’t realize or didn’t know at the time what a f – – king disaster and how mean-spirited and what an attempt that was to minimize our talents.” However, he’s now at peace with the label . “It pains me when I see folks who don’t see how much love is infused into the Brat Pack.
It’s nothing but goodwill,” he sa.