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Rob Lowe Thought He and Tom Cruise Might Not Make It Through One Particular Night While Filming 1983's The Outsiders


Rob Lowe and Francis Ford Coppola say 'The Outsiders' actors playing wealthier "Socs" wanted to be greasers, despite larger per diems and better accommodations.

“You were all young guys who loved acting,” Coppola recalled on the most recent episode of Lowe’s SiriusXM podcast Literally!. Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Thomas C. Howell, Patrick Swayze and Tom Cruise in 1983's 'The Outsiders'.Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty At the same time, Coppola apparently wanted to make the class dynamic between the greasers and Socs as real as possible for the young actors.

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