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How Being a Performer Made Rob Lowe a ‘Thill Seeker’

How Being a Performer Made Rob Lowe a ‘Thill Seeker’

By Movieguide® Contributor

Rob Lowe doesn’t consider himself particularly daring, but all bets are off when the camera is pointed at him. 

“I don’t consider myself a thrill seeker or an adrenaline junkie, but I am always barraged with people saying, ‘You do that? What are you, crazy? Oh, my God!’” he said during an appearance on Mike Rowe’s “The Way I Heard It” podcast. “And I’m just, like, living. I’m heliskiing, I’m big wave surfing, I’m scuba diving. That’s just living life.”

Lowe explained that he’s “wired” to do things like that but admits there are some activities he draws the line at. For example, jumping out of a plane. 

“I’ll jump off of stuff that people would not jump off of, but the notion of a plane?” he laughed. 

However, if it’s for a role, Lowe said he might just do it.  

“Put a camera on me, I’m liable to do anything,” he said. “I know that I can’t trust myself.”

When Rowe asked him why that was, the actor replied, “The juice becomes worth the squeeze because film is forever. It’s just that simple.”

“I’m a performer,” he finished. “The light comes on, I know what to do.”

 

Lowe rose to fame in the ’80s, becoming part of a group of young actors called the “Brat Pack.” While some of the members took offense at the name, Lowe doesn’t mind. 

“All of us should feel lucky to have been given a name for what we contributed as actors and that fans still care 40 years later,” he said in a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal. 

His hard-partying lifestyle eventually caught up with him, and Lowe was rocked by a sex tape scandal in 1988. He has a positive outlook on the situation, though. 

“It’s one of the reasons why I got sober,” he said while on THE JESS CAGLE SHOW. “I woke up one day and I was like, ‘What am I doing with my life?’ I’m 29 years in and like people talk, but it’s the best thing that ever happened to me. Honestly, I do because it got me sober, sober got me married.”

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