Rob Lowe Says Hollywood A-Lister ‘Knocked Me Out’ on The Outsiders Set

“I was absolutely blown away by the cruise.” Rob Lowe He tells the funny story of his training on the set of Francis Ford Coppola's film. strangers (1983), which co-starred future Hollywood star and film star Mission: Impossible Privilege, the man who runs himself: Tom Cruise. As Low puts it, “testosterone” got the better of the two co-stars during a duel in a hotel corridor while away from the film set. “It was a real thrill,” Low said during an interview on Rich Eisen Show:

“I love him [Cruise] Much.
He is the best.
It's so competitive that we used to box in the hallway of the hotel we were staying at while watching Outsiders.
Too much testosterone: We are 18 year old guys stuck on the site.
So, we were wearing headgear, we were wearing mouthpieces, but we were training legitimately.
And I just remember Tom is strong, and I'm like a pipe cleaner's arm.
“I haven't started working out yet, so I'm a lot like Karen Carpenter.”

Lowe continued:

“I'm like… I'm not strong,
Tom is such a beast.
And hit him clean…
And rang his bell.
The next thing I knew, I woke up, and I was on the floor regaining consciousness.
He hit me so hard his eyes turned black.
But that's what we did, that's what men do,
“It's like fight club.”

Best Brat Pack Title by Rob Lowe

Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise were two of the up-and-coming actors who appeared in strangers In 1983. However, two of those talents, Lowe and Emilio Estevez would later also become members of the Brat Pack—rightly or wrongly called it—which included some of the best young performers in Hollywood in the 1980s, including Demi Moore, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, and more.

Another member, Andrew McCarthy, recently delved into the Brat Pack phenomenon with a documentary he made with the simple title SausagesAlthough Lowe was unable to withstand the blow Cruise threw at him, McCarthy believes Lowe was the best when it came to dealing with the Brat Pack mystique that was imposed on this famous group of Hollywood stars. McCarthy said in an exclusive interview with MovieWeb:

“I think we all didn't like him at first,
But I think Rob quickly realized that the audience was right and that they saw it as something great.
It's like,
“Oh, it's us. These guys are us. I want to hang out with them. I want to party with them,” you know?
And as time goes by,
We have become this representation of the youth.”

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Andrew McCarthy Opens Up About His New Documentary Brats and How Brat Pack Actors Were 'Exploited'

The St. Elmo's Fire and Pretty in Pink star discusses the cultural phenomenon The Brat Pack, '80s movies, and reuniting with his co-stars.

Several key members of the Brat Pack, including Ally Sheedy, Lowe, Moore, and Estevez, were involved in the making of McCarthy's documentary. However, Anthony Michael Hall was notably absent, along with the aforementioned Ringwald and Nelson, who were mentioned but not shown in the film. SausagesMcCarthy explained their absence during the same session:

“I think people choosing to participate or not is helpful and contributes to the film in its own way, anyway,”
Because the Brat Pack was a very strange thing to travel through time with –
And some people chose to embrace it fully.
Other people, like me, look at this and say, “You know what, I think this is kind of beautiful.”
“And others say, ‘I’m not going there.’ And I think that all tells the story. It was a complicated period.”