Rob Lowe Looks Back on The Moment He Thought His Career Was Over (Exclusive)

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Rob Lowe has come a long way. The 58-year-old actor rocketed to fame in 1983's and has since enjoyed an enviable career by any standards, but Lowe admits that even he worried that his career might be over at one point in the '90s.«One day I woke up and go, 'I haven't worked in two years,'» Lowe tells ET's Matt Cohen in a new interview, recalling the early days of raising his family with wife Sheryl Burkoff.

The couple welcomed their first son, Matthew, in 1993, and their second, John, in 1995. «In fairness, I'd kind of taken my foot off the accelerator a little bit.» With a slew of big screen projects already under his belt -- including and — it was a starring role on in 1999 that marked a new beginning for Lowe, kicking off a run that would see him on a TV show (and sometimes more than one) every year since.

The streak is still going strong, with Lowe currently starring on Fox's and gearing up to release — a collaborative project with his son John — for Netflix early next year. «I play a larger-than-life, unstable tech genius and the only person who can really reach him and talk to [him] is his semi-estranged son,» Lowe explains, joking, «So, it's all of the elements we have in our own life.

I’m kind of unstable, and the only person who can reach me is my son. People are gonna like it, I think.» In real life, Lowe is hardly estranged from his own children.