Judd Nelson wasn’t always against appearing in Bratsaccording to Hulu documentary director and Brat Pack member Andrew McCarthy.
At the start of the documentary, McCarthy embarks on a mission to reunite with the group of actors with whom he rose to fame in the 1980s. Stars such as Emilio Estevez and Demi Moore agree to sit down with McCarthy, who finds it much more difficult to get in touch with Nelson.
…Or so it seems.
McCarthy came forward on today’s episode of Andy Cohen’s Sirius XM radio show Andy Cohen Live that Nelson was actually one of the first actors to respond to his call at the beginning of the documentary.
“Early in the movie, when I’m calling everybody, there’s a moment where I say to someone, ‘Don’t tell me now. Don’t tell me now. I want to get it all on film,’” McCarthy explained. “And it was Judd I was talking to.”
As we already know, Nelson turned down the opportunity to appear in the film. However, McCarthy said that the Breakfast Club The star was “the most excited of all” when he first heard about the project.
“[He said]“Yeah, I’d love to. Okay,” McCarthy said of his initial call to Nelson. “And that’s when I said to him, which is in the film, ‘Don’t tell me now. I want to get this all on film. Take it easy, Judd. I’ll come to L.A. and we’ll sit down. ’ He said, ‘That’s great. Call me when you’re ready. I’m here. ’”
But according to McCarthy, Nelson disappeared after that.
“He became kind of a unicorn,” she said. “We couldn’t find him for months and months and months. And finally he said, ‘You know, I don’t want to do it. ’ He just changed his mind, which is fine.”
Cohen, for his part, called Nelson’s change of tone “very annoying.”
Nelson had previously expressed his discomfort with the documentary, saying that We weekly that it seemed “strange” to him to turn the Brat Pack theme into something for “edited entertainment.”
“Also as, [McCarthy’s] A nice guy, but I hadn’t seen him in 35 years. And I thought, “I’m never going to see him again.” [be] “No, man,” he said, before adding: “Why revive something that wasn’t necessarily fun? How can we be experts on something that never really existed?”
