How Jon Cryer and Andrew McCarthy finally reconciled ‘Pretty in Pink’ feud 25 years later

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“The View” to bring two formerly feuding co-stars together.Jon Cryer appeared Friday on the daytime talk show and revealed it’s where he and his “Pretty in Pink” costar, Andrew McCarthy, turned over a new leaf. “He and I famously did not get along when we were shooting ‘Pretty in Pink,'” Cryer, 58, reminisced to the ladies of the ABC talk show. “It was because there was tension,” he explained. “Interestingly, I saw him backstage and we had a lovely time, we had a great talk.”Cryer said he and McCarthy, 61, both appeared on a 2012 episode of “The View” to promote different projects but the unexpected work fulfillment also impacted their personal relationship.“Pretty in Pink” debuted in 1986 and is known as a “Brat Pack” film due to its cast, including Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton, Annie Potts, and James Spader.“At any rate, what I realize now, he wrote a terrific memoir called ‘Brat,’ he was already struggling with alcoholism back when we were shooting that movie.

I’d projected all this stuff on him at the time. I thought he’s this sullen guy that doesn’t want to talk to me.”“We’re enemies [as characters] on the movie, but that doesn’t mean we can’t be friends,” Cryer continued. “But we just had no rapport whatsoever at the time.

I found out later he was going through some tough stuff. That was such a lesson for me, it’s all about projection. You never know.”McCarthy’s rep told Entertainment Weekly in a statement that, “Jon Cryer has grown into the most lovely, gracious man,” — but joked that he wishes “he hadn’t decked me backstage at ‘The View.'”The Post has contacted reps for McCarthy and Cryer for comment.