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'Brats': How Jon Cryer and Andrew McCarthy thawed their icy Brat Pack relationship

Jon Cryer, left, and Andrew McCarthy speak onstage at the "Brats" premiere during the 2024 Tribeca Festival at BMCC Theater on Friday, June 7, 2024, in New York.

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.

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