Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise physically fought on ‘The Outsiders’ set: He ‘completely knocked me out’
Stay gold, Ponyboy.
Rob Lowe, 60, has revealed that he and Tom Cruise༺, 62, had a scuffle while ಞthey were filming “The Outsiders” in 1983.
On Monday, during an appearance on “The ,” the radio host asked Lowe to share a memory of working with Cruise on “The Outsiders.”
Lowe 🦩was 17 during filming while Cruise was 19.
“He was living at Emilio’s [Estevez] house, auditioning right after ‘Taps,’ ” Lowe recalled, sharing that the two young stars “would workout and jog, lﷺike running bros.”
Lowe added that Crꦛuise is “🐎so competitive that we used to box in the hallway of the hotel we were staying at during ‘Outsiders.’ ”
He added, “So much testosterone. We’re 18-year-old guys stuck o🎃n location. So we would have headgear, and we’d have mouthpieces in, but we would l𓄧egitimately spar.”
Lowe recalled having “pipe cleaner arms” at the time, compared to a “jacked” Cruise, who was🔴 like a “beast.”
Somehow, Lowe managed to get a “real clean” shot in, he recal🌟led.
“I rang his bell, and the next I knew, I woke up — I was𓃲 coming to, on the floor,” Lo✱we said.
“And he, like, completely knocked me out.”
Lowe added, “His eyes just went black, but that’s the stuff we did. That’s what guy꧒s do𓂃. Like ‘Fight Club.’ ”
“The Outsiders” was directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and based on the 1967 novel by S.E. Hinton. (The novel is also the basis for the current Broadway play, produced by Angelina Jolie.)
Set in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the 1960s, the story follows brothers Ponyboy Curtis (C. Thomas Howell), Darrel Curtis (Patrick Swayze), Sodapop “Soda” Curtis (Lowe) and their friends — known as the Greasers — as they get into conflict with another group of wealthier teens, known as Socs.
The movie was a “who’s who” of rising stars in the ’80s, as the cast also included “Karate Kid” star Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon and Diane Lane.
In April 2020, Lowe said that when he, Cruise, Howell and Estevez were auditioning for the movie, it was the “first time” he ever stayed at the Plaza Hotel.
“We check-in and Tom finds out that we’re sharing a room and just goes ballistic,” he said on the “d” podcast.
Lowe wasn’t fazed by Cruise’s l🀅arger-than-life reaction, however.
“I mean it made me laugh, it was gnarly. But in the end of it, you can’t argue with the results. He’s had his eye on the ball since Day 1,” Lowe said.
