Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Charlie Sheen Admits Jealousy Over the Brat Pack Fueled His Success

Charlie Sheen revealed a surprising thing...that drove him to be successful before he was famous...a

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Charlie Sheen's documentary is up on Netflix. He was one
of the biggest movie stars back to the eighties and nineties,
but he admitted on Conan O'Brian's podcast recently that he
was insanely jealous of the group of the hottest young actors.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
In that time period, the infamous Brat Pack.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
His brother, Emilio Estevez was in the Brat Pack and
got his career going before Charlie thanks to movies like
The Breakfast Club and Saint almos Fire.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
So Charlie actually got to hang out with them and
see everybody worship his big brother and friends but totally
ignore him, which.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Had to be tough and Charlie Bean Charlie, he admitted
with a grin, it wasn't about the acting that made
him envious.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
It was the socializing with the girls.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Right that inspired him to kind of grind a little harder.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Then he got that tiny role he got in a
huge movie, Ferris Bueller's Sale, But that little piece of
that movie it was life changing.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
It led him to starring Platoon.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Then he won Best Picture at the Oscar So Charlie
opening up everywhere that documentary on Netflix that's

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Direct from Hollywood.