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It’s not wide if Rob Lowe had the enactment speech with his son, John Owen Lowe, but helium surely had the enactment tape talk. The 28-year-old histrion revealed that helium learned astir his father’s infamous 1998 enactment tape from a precocious schoolhouse classmate during a chat with Men’s Health published connected March 14. “I was successful eighth people oregon freshman twelvemonth of precocious school, and immoderate kid said, ‘You know, your dada has a enactment portion online,’” helium recalled. “I was like, ‘What?’”
“You cognize what it’s benignant of like? Santa Claus,” John Owen continued. “I don’t deliberation astir parents ever person that infinitesimal wherever they beryllium the kids down and go, ‘Okay, we’ve got to archer you something.’ A kid conscionable figures it out. There weren’t milestone markers, like, ‘Okay, he’s 16 now, clip for them to larn astir this portion of our life!’”
Rob Lowe (left) and John Owen Lowe (right) airs astatine the ‘Dog Gone’ movie premiere successful 2023 (Photo: Shutterstock)Learning astir the present 58-year-old star’s enactment portion was conscionable the opening of John Owen’s dad-related issues. He went connected to accidental that helium didn’t privation to beryllium anyplace adjacent his begetter erstwhile helium realized radical utilized him to get adjacent to the St. Elmo’s Fire alum. “The fig of times I got compared to my dad, and the fig of times helium was brought up successful conversation, made maine truthful uncomfortable that I wanted to determination arsenic acold distant from that arsenic possible,” helium admitted.
However, John Owen yet came astir and is present arsenic adjacent arsenic helium tin perchance beryllium to his celebrated father: Their caller comedy, Unstable, is astir to driblet connected Netflix. The brace created the publication unneurotic and based it connected their beingness experiences together. The crippled of the bid follows a son, played by John Owen, who is forced to enactment astatine his father’s (played by Rob) company.
John Owen Lowe arsenic Jackson (left) and Rob Lowe arsenic Ellis (right) successful ‘Unstable’ (Photo: Shutterstock)Rob and John Owen antecedently worked unneurotic connected Fox’s 9-1-1: Lone Star, which debuted successful 2020 and stars the former. John Owen contributed arsenic a writer successful much than 30 episodes, portion his uncle, Chad Lowe, has acted successful and directed a fewer episodes of the exigency country play series, per IMDb.
“I’m truthful blessed and arrogant and it makes coming to enactment adjacent much amusive than it usually is,” Rob said astir moving with his household during a 2021 chat with Entertainment Tonight. “We tin person a afloat speech astir a country oregon a series and I’ll hide that it’s my lad and I’ll hide that it’s my member and I’ll beryllium like, man, those guys truly knew what the hellhole they were doing!”
John Owen said that moving with his household — and enjoying it truthful thoroughly— means a batch to him. “It’s uncommon you get to beryllium champion friends [with someone] and besides look up to idiosyncratic and, you know, we enactment successful the aforesaid industry, truthful I get to not lone look up to him connected an affectional level but besides a vocation level, which is astonishing for me,” helium noted. How sweet!
Rob shares John Owen his older son, Matthew Lowe, with his wife, Sheryl Berkoff. The brace walked down the aisle successful 1991.
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