Rob Lowe Remembers Working with “Intense” Patrick Swayze

When we did Outsiders, we were kids, you know, Cruz and me and Matt Dillon and all, this way, all, everybody, we were, we were young. I was 17. 17 turning 18 and see Thomas Howell, who played Ponyboy, the lead in the movie, was 15. And when we would finish shooting, we'd get in the vans to get driven back to the hotel, and there would be as much beer as you wanted. He's 15. Wow. As much beer as you wanted. And that's a studio movie. Look at you guys. Look at Tom Cruise for you. Oh, wait, wait. Can you pull that photo up to see our feet? Is that possible? Because that feet, there it is. It's down there. Okay, look at Swayze. He's standing on bricks. Lose feet. He wanted to be taller. Isn't that great? Swayze is standing on bricks in the back of that. Oh, that's hilarious. That's my favorite. That's my favorite thing. Speaking of Swayze Roadhouse, that's another horrible movie that's amazing. But people, yeah, people love that movie. Oh, it's great. It's fucking great. It's great. He's a bouncer. Yeah. Yeah. He's the baddest bouncer. And that's part of the thing. It's like, I thought you were going to be bigger. Remember that? That's like one of the lines in the movie, because he's a legendary bouncer that they bring in to fix really bad honky tonks. The bad problems at the door. Yeah. It's in an, it's in a pandemic. Even people trying to get in the VIPs. He grabs someone's neck and pulls their throat out in the movie. I mean, it's so good. Pain don't hurt. That's actually the line in the movie. Pain don't hurt. Those 80s lines are so good. That's such a great one because he's so beautiful. Swayze was an Adonis. He was an Adonis. He would, he tried to get us to put that God Forsaken song. She's like the wind in young blood. We were like, we were like. There it is. He pulls the guys, throw it out. And then he hits him with the worst spinning back kick ever in the butt. Watch. He pulls his throat out and look at this. It's so bad. That's such a bad kick. You probably blew his ACL out doing that. It's so stupid. He was the best man. He might be the most intense guy I ever worked with. Really? Yeah. He'd be up all night writing and like doing body weight pushups with his feet up against a wall all night long and then show up at this set having not slept and wanting you to hear his new demo. He was like a lot. It was great. It was great. But no, I remember she's like the wind and I was like, I don't know how that fits in a, we're making a hockey movie, bro. I don't know how that fits in the hockey movie. Well, I didn't want that in there. And then sure enough, what Dirty Dancing comes out and that movie's in it and goes to number one. Oh, well, yeah. But that movie. Okay. That was a good movie. Dirty Dancing? Yeah, that was a great movie. That was a great movie. Ghost is his big, big best movie. Yeah. Ghost is a great movie. That's a great movie. Great movie. He did a point break was a great movie. Great movie. He did some great movies. Yeah. Keanu was in Youngblood, but I thought he was French. I thought he was a French Canadian goalie. Really? Yeah. I didn't know he was an actor. I thought, I literally thought he was, we hired this amazing French Canadian goalie. I can't believe how young you guys were. I know. That's so crazy. They were giving you booze.