Interviewee: Andrew McCarthy
Interviewer: Fox News
Date: March 10, 2009

In the 1980s, a group of Hollywood teen stars became inseparable in films, as well as in real life. They were called the Brat Pack, and Andrew McCarthy was one of them.

That name, however, turned out to be a misnomer for Andrew McCarthy, who was known in public as the reclusive one among his oft-hedonistic peers. Nothing could be truer than his role in his films, where he was always stereotyped as the brooding good guy.

As a result, Andrew McCarthy became one of the female set’s most likeable actors of that decade. He starred in one blockbuster movie after another, including Pretty In Pink, St. Elmo’s Fire and Mannequin.

Andrew McCarthy debuted onscreen with the sexually charged comedy Class, opposite fellow Brat Packer Rob Lowe. He and Lowe reunited for 1985’s St. Elmo’s Fire, the iconic teen drama that showcased fellow Brat Packers Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, and Emilio Estevez.

The following year, Andrew McCarthy teamed with Molly Ringwald in Howard Deutch’s definitive teen romance Pretty In Pink. Portraying a wealthy boy who falls for Ringwald’s poor character, he won over an intercontinental legion of fans and achieved pin-up status.

Succeeding Pretty in Pink was 1987’s Mannequin, where McCarthy played a hapless artist to Kim Cattrall’s magical mannequin. Later that year, he exercised his acting chops in the critically adored film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ novel Less Than Zero.

Ringwald was paired again with McCarthy in 1988’s Fresh Horses, but it failed to make a connection with its audience. Andrew McCarthy, however, redeemed his box office glory the next year with Weekend at Bernie’s. Its 1993 sequel, however, bombed at the box office.

Indeed, the 1990s spelled the end of the box office course for Andrew McCarthy. He nonetheless performed in sporadic critics’ favorites like The Joy Luck Club, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, and Mulholland Falls.

He eventually turned to television. In 2000, he portrayed Bobby Kennedy in the miniseries Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. Four years later, he appeared in Stephen King’s TV adaptation of Kingdom Hospital.

Andrew McCarthy is also a highly acclaimed theater actor and is, in fact, an Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Actor’s Studio member.

In 2008, he somewhat transformed himself into a legitimate TV star, playing billionaire Joe Bennett in Lipstick Jungle, alongside Brooke Shields.