Here is something Andrew McCarthy did not do before he agreed to star in Pretty in Pink: read the script.
“I needed a job and I needed the $50,000 they were going to pay me,” the actor, 63, tells host Seth Abramovitch on this week’s episode of It Happened in Hollywood. “So I read the script on the way out, on the plane.”
What he found next alarmed him. In John Hughes’ original screenplay, his character Blane — the dreamy rich kid who wins working-class Andie Walsh’s heart — didn’t actually deserve her. By the end, he buckles under peer pressure and dumps her entirely. McCarthy landed at LAX and went straight for the phone.
“I called my agent and said, ‘You’ve got to get me out of this movie. This guy’s a jerk.’”
It is one of several eye-opening revelations in a conversation that doubles
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