Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise starred in ‘The Outsiders’ alongside Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon, Emilio Estevez, and Patrick Swayze.
Rob Lowe is a lover, not a fighter. The 9-1-1: Lone Star actor opened up about when he labored on the 1983 movie The Outsiders, and recalled being knocked out by Tom Cruise, considered one of his co-stars, throughout a sparring match combat.
Throughout Monday’s episode of The Wealthy Eisen Present, Lowe dished on filming the acclaimed Francis Ford Coppola film, and revealed that he, Cruise, and a few of the different younger forged members would spar of their downtime. “He is [Cruise] so aggressive that we used to field within the hallway of the resort we had been staying at throughout Outsiders,” Lowe recalled.
“A lot testosterone,” he continued. “We’re 18-year-old guys caught on location. So we’d put on headgear, and we might have mouthpieces in, however we’d legitimately spar.”
American actors Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon, Emilio Estevez and Patrick Swayze on the set of The Outsiders, directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola. (Photograph by Nancy Moran/Sygma by way of Getty Photos)
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Lowe additionally famous that, on the time, Cruise, was extra “jacked” than him, as a result of Lowe was not as targeted on understanding because the Mission: Inconceivable star. “Tom is like this beast,” he mentioned. “And I hit him actual clear and I rang his bell. And the following factor I knew I wakened and I used to be coming to on the ground. He like utterly knocked me out.”
The previous West Wing star mentioned that he thinks Cruise’s defensive instincts kicked in after being punched by Lowe, as a result of “I hit him laborious and his eyes went black.” Lowe later joked, “However that is the stuff we did, that is what guys do, it is like Battle Membership.”
The Outsiders relies on S. E. Hinton’s guide of the identical title. The movie is ready in a small Oklahoma city in 1964 and follows the rivalry between two gangs, which heats up when a member of 1 ganf unintentionally kills a member from the opposite gang. Along with Cruise and Lowe, The Outsiders additionally stars C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon, Emilio Estevez, and the late Patrick Swayze.