Rob Lowe is embracing the famous Brat Pack label after previously slamming the nickname, saying it was “designed to belittle us.”
David Blum of New York Magazine first coined the term Brat Pack in 1985, when he compared a group of then rising stars in their 20s, including Lowe, to the famous Rat Pack. Though the cohort disliked the label, it became popular with fans, and its members are still known by the nickname almost four decades later.
During an interview with the Wall Street Journal published Tuesday, Lowe, now 60, explained that he now views the label in a more favorable light.
“All of us should feel lucky to have been given a name for what we contributed as actors and that fans still care 40 years later,” Lowe said.
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Rob Lowe, right, is embracing the “Brat Pack” label. (Getty)
The Brat Pack, who came of age in the 1980s with movies like “St. Elmo’s Fire,” “The Breakfast Club,” “About Last Night…,” “Sixteen Candles” and “Pretty in Pink,” defined a generation’s teen angst and became a pop culture touchstone.
Along with Lowe, the Brat Pack members include Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Demi Moore, Andrew McCarthy, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Estevez and Jon Cryer, among others. However, which actors fit into the group has not always been clear.
In Blum’s New York Magazine article, titled “Hollywood’s Brat Pack,” the journalist designated Lowe, Estevez and Nelson as members of the Brat Pack, though he named other young stars including Tom Cruise, Sean Penn and Nicolas Cage as potential members.
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