Dermot Mulroney: 'I remember Charlie Sheen climbing over a balcony, half-clothed …'

The star of Young Guns made his name as one of the Brat Pack. Three decades on, while others have crashed and burned, he is dreaming of reopening' the entertainment industry after lockdown

In a quiet corner of his Los Angeles home, Dermot Mulroney grapples with a question that many actors' egos would not allow them to entertain: why isn't he a bigger star?

Well, I had some alcoholism. That slowed me down. And I ... wasn't six feet. Does that work? No, that's a little flimsy. Let's keep thinking."