Andrew McCarthy remains in demand
BY CROWN FEATURES SYNDICATE
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Published: November 2, 2009
If you haven’t seen a lot of interviews conducted with Andrew McCarthy over the years, it’s probably not an accident. The guy doesn’t do many of them and remains fairly guarded in what he will let you in to see, as becomes clear after speaking with him for 10 minutes. Getting McCarthy to open up requires a certain patience and dexterity. Yet it can be done. Can’t it, Andrew?
"You know, I don’t feel like I’m overly private and introverted or anything like that,” says McCarthy, the clean-cut dude with the all-American looks who burst on the scene with such 1980s mini-classics as the late
John Hughes’ "Pretty in Pink,” "St. Elmo’s Fire” and the blockbuster comedy "Weekend at Bernie’s.”
What’s hard to believe is that a guy who was such a twenty-something icon back in the mid-1980s will turn 47 on Nov. 26. It doesn’t seem so long ago that he was taking
Hollywood by storm as an original member of the so-called Brat Pack along with
Judd Nelson,
Mare Winningham,
Anthony Michael Hall,
Demi Moore,
Rob Lowe,
Molly Ringwald,
Emilio Estevez and
Ally Sheedy.
"I had some great times,” the guarded-but-animated McCarthy says. "Things are really good right now. I have two great kids, and I’m able to work and travel a lot.”
While he hasn’t been at the center of the buzz for the better part of 20 years now — since "Weekend at Bernie’s” came out in 1989 — McCarthy has worked steadily throughout the ensuing two decades, in projects ranging from the feature "The Joy Luck Club” (he had a supporting role) to the indie feature "Mulholland Falls” (1996) to the
Stephen King series "Kingdom Hospital” (2004) to last year’s drama "
Lipstick Jungle,” in which he had a regular role, to a recurring role in this summer’s breakaway hit series, "Royal Pains.”
And McCarthy is still plenty in demand. As he conducts an interview, he’s on the telephone on location from
New Orleans, where he’s starring in the comedy theatrical "Snatched,” opposite
Ernest Borgnine and his "Weekend at Bernie’s” co-star,
Jonathan Silverman.
"I love doing comedy,” he says. "But I’m just as into drama. And that’s why ‘The National Tree’ was such a great experience, just a lovely little film to be a part of.”
"The National Tree” is a
Hallmark Channel Original Movie, premiering at 7 p.m. Nov. 28. It’s a yuletide coming-of-age tale that stars McCarthy as a man whose 17-year-old son (Canadian actor
Evan Williams) wins a national Christmas tree contest and is convinced to go on the road to help the teen transport the tree across the country and thereby strengthen their fraying bond.
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