

Tom and I ended up in the basement on two cots. And we just went to their little house and had dinner. Rob, Tom you guys are gonna go stay with Bill and Sandy Webber. "They came to us at rehearsal and like 'Ok so we're gonna divide you up. And made us go spend the night and live with them."Īpart from the generally dubious practice of sleeping in the houses of people you have never met before, it was clear to Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise as they hunkered down in the basement of their unexpected host's home for the night that Coppola had not done his due diligence before sending them on their merry way.

And in his effort to make us more authentic as greasers, as tough Tulsa wrong-side-of-the-tracks guys, he found a bunch of actual different Greasers who were now grown-up adults. It's Francis Ford Coppola, the director who directed The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, and the most intense kind of director imaginable. "When we were doing The Outsiders we're 18 and 19 years old. One of the actors was Rob Lowe, who revealed in a recent interview with Kelly Clarkson on her Youtube show how deadly serious Coppola was about getting authentic performances from his actors. He was cast in Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders alongside a bunch of other unknown actors who would go on to become big names in the industry. Back in 1983, Cruise was an up-and-coming actor trying to make his way in Hollywood. It's difficult to imagine now, but there was a time when Tom Cruise was not one of the biggest stars in the world.
