The outsiders wanting in may discover this recommendation a bit unstable.
When John Owen Lowe walked onto the set of his coming-of-age thriller, “Grace Point,” the very last thing the younger Hollywood star anticipated was to have a gun pulled on him. However after calling his dad, Rob Lowe, to recount the incident, his response was one for the books.
“Someone pulled a gun on us while we were filming,” the undertaking’s author and director, Rory Karpf, solely advised The Publish throughout an occasion for the film on Jan. 30.
“We were filming and we’re in fields and woods in this town Laurinburg, North Carolina. And we have permission obviously to be everywhere, but this guy pulled up in a truck with his shotgun and it was more like shoot first, ask questions later.”
Fortunately for the forged and crew, one member was able to slither into motion.
“He had his gun drawn and the person who stepped up was literally our local snake wrangler, whose name is Snake,” Rory continued. “Johnny thought maybe we were doing an improve scene.”
John confirmed the incident and recalled the second he known as his father to clue him in on what went down, telling The Publish that Rob stated, “That’ll make a great story for press.”
“That’s the only way my dad’s brain works,” the 29-year-old star quipped. “It wasn’t how are you feeling. It was like, ‘This is gonna crush!’”
The Publish has reached out to the film’s rep for remark.
Regardless of Rob’s humorousness, the “9-1-1: Lone Star” vet has been a guiding drive for his youngest son, whom he shares along with his spouse, Sheryl Berkoff. The daddy-son duo, who starred in Netflix’s “Unstable” collectively for 2 seasons, have related journeys with sobriety. Rob bought sober in 1990 at 26, whereas John stopped consuming alcohol greater than six years in the past in his early 20s.
The “Holiday in the Wild” actor credit his household, together with his older brother, Matt, 32, for serving to him get to the opposite aspect of substance abuse and Rob, who went via it as nicely.
“Particularly with the sobriety, he helped me so much, my whole family did. My mom as well and my brother,” John revealed. “Defiantly would not be here sitting in the chair having had accomplished anything that I’ve accomplished, maybe even alive, without them.”
In terms of the appearing aspect of issues, he additionally threw some credit score Rob’s manner.
“Show business-wise, I think he’d like to take more credit than is true. But he gives me a lot of advice. He gives me more advice than I’d like to hear in that regard,” John teased.
It has now come full circle for John as he’s enjoying a teen battling habit who will get into bother on the best way to rehab in “Grace Point.” The undertaking additionally doubled as a mini Brat Pack reunion as Andrew McCarthy performs John’s father within the movie, 40 years after Andrew and Rob starred within the 1985 traditional “St. Elmo’s Fire.”
“I think anytime you’re playing a character that’s dealing with addiction or anything of that nature, for me, it’s something I take very seriously and it’s a very sensitive topic,” John admitted about his character, Brandon. “It’s very private for a lot of people too, so it’s an internal struggle of how much of myself to put into this, how much of myself to broadcast.”
Coping with a job so near his coronary heart, as John put it, results in “pressure to get it right because it’s so important.”
“That’s why I loved this script and this project because I thought that it did get it right,” he gushed. “And highlighting the father-son struggles and the pressures from a parent who wants more from you and a son who understands that subconsciously but wrestles with that concept.”
“Not that I have experienced any of this in my own personal life. We know that can’t possibly be true,” John joked.
“I think it was handled delicately and taken seriously in this and it made it much easier for me to play that character and I’ve definitely put a lot of myself in there,” the producer famous. “I went to rehab in the south even when I was young, so there were a lot of parallels.”
In 2024, Rob opened up about quitting consuming within the ’90s after struggling within the highlight for years.
“Getting sober was an incremental decision,” he advised Folks on the time. “It’s baby steps until you’re ready. You can’t do it until you’re really ready.”
“Grace Point” is out there to stream on Apple TV+.
