reason to assume that he would be selected. Instead, he won the role of Jonathan Ogner in a movie starring Jacqueline Bisset and Rob Lowe. The story involved a prep-school student who unknowingly becomes romantically involved with the mother of his roommate. For an inexperienced actor who had only recently been struggling with acting school, it represented an astonishing change in circumstances. McCarthy later joked about the surreal transition from being a student to performing intimate scenes opposite the internationally famous Bisset.
Class did not immediately make McCarthy one of
