Rob Lowe recalled duking it out together with his pal and former co-star Tom Cruise after they had been simply teenagers on the set of the 1983 movie “The Outsiders.”
Throughout Monday’s episode of “The Rich Eisen Show,” the actor, 60, took a stroll down reminiscence lane after host Eisen requested him to recall a narrative about working with the motion star.
“He’s so competitive that we used to box in the hallway of the hotel we were staying during ‘Outsiders,’” Lowe recalled of Cruise. “So much testosterone. We’re 18-year-old guys stuck on location. So we would wear headgear and we’d have mouthpieces in, but we would legitimately spar.”
Within the coming-of-age movie, Lowe performed compassionate teen Sodapop Curtis whereas Cruse, now 62, starred as cocky automotive lover Steve Randle.
Lowe mentioned he wasn’t understanding on the time and had “pipe cleaner” arms — and that Cruise was “jacked” compared.
“Tom is like, this beast,” he mentioned. “But I hit him real clean and I rang his bell. And the next thing I knew, I woke up and I was coming to on the floor. He’d, like, completely knocked me out.”
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As for what led the “Mission Impossible” star to TKO Lowe, the “Parks and Recreation” actor mentioned it was as a result of he had “hit him hard, like his eyes just went black.”
“But that’s the stuff we did, that’s what guys do, it’s like ‘Fight Club,’” he teased.
“The Outsiders” movie, based mostly on S. E. Hinton’s 1967 novel, additionally starred Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon, Emilio Estevez and C. Thomas Howell.
In a 2020 interview on the “Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard” podcast, the “West Wing” star shared one other story about Cruise’s fiery spirit off-set.
Based on Lowe, Cruise had flipped out when he discovered that the 2 actors had been sharing a room at The Plaza Lodge in New York Metropolis.
“First time I ever stayed at The Plaza Hotel. We check in and Tom finds out that we’re sharing a room, and just goes ballistic,” Lowe started his story.
“To me, what’s great about the story is: There’s certain people who have always been who they are, and that element of them has powered them to where they are today, and the rest is history,” he continued. “And the notion that an 18-year-old actor with a walk-on part in ‘Endless Love,’ and like, a seventh lead in ‘Taps,’ could have that kind of, like, wherewithal? I remember going, ‘Wow, this guy is the real deal.’”
Lowe mentioned the second was “gnarly” however made him “laugh.”
“But at the end, you can’t argue with the results. He’s had his eye on the ball since day one,” he added.
Watch a clip from Lowe’s interview on “The Rich Eisen Show” under.
