When producing the 1980s classic, actor Jon Cryer did not get along with his “Pretty in Pink” castmates Molly Ringwald and Andrew McCarthy, since they felt he was too brash and loud.
“In his memoir, “So That Happened,” the former “Two and a Half Guys” actor spills the beans about his uncomfortable friendship with the movie’s actors, and now reveals that he soon learned movie sets are somewhat different from the theater.
He tells Access Live, “I came from New York City and I’m kinda a loud-mouthed New Yorker… and Molly and Andrew were both very kinda reserved people,”
“I came from the theatre, where everybody knows everybody and has these outsize personalities and you’re all crammed together and have to work together, but a movie’s not like that; you show up and you do your job and then you go home…”
“I just assumed that because they were so remote they just didn’t like me.”
Since then, he has learned that he was half right: “I later found out that Molly actually did like me; Andrew, however, didn’t – but now we get along fine…”
“I ran into him backstage at (TV show) ‘The View’ and we had a lovely conversation. He’s a terrific travel writer, as well as a director and he still acts, obviously.”