Peter Bart: Tom Cruise & Rob Lowe Both Survived Turbulence On Their Flights To Stardom
deadline.comOne was fiercely focused, the other accident-prone. They both made it. The careers of Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise first collided exactly 40 years ago when the two very young but ambitious actors showed up at an Oklahoma location to assume their roles in The Outsiders, directed by Francis Coppola.
Although thrilled by the opportunity, they didn’t exactly click: Asked to share hotel rooms, Cruise had his agent demand a single because the actor wanted to study his script each night.
Lowe found another roommate for camaraderie. On opening night, Lowe angrily discovered most of his scenes had been cut while Cruise’s had survived.
It was an ominous portent because Cruise soon moved on to hits like Risky Business and Top Gun. Lowe struggled with early disappointments like Class and Masquerade.
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