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Rob Lowe has revealed his Footloose audition ended in disaster after an ill-executed knee-slide left him needing a stretcher.
The iconic 1984 film saw Kevin Bacon shoot to worldwide fame as dancing teen Ren McCormack – but Lowe, now 59, detailed his own botched audition for the film during a chat on Bacon’s podcast, Six Degrees With Kevin Bacon.
Lowe said: ‘It’s a dance audition apparently. Dance. By the way I think it was to a Styx song of all things. And the end of the dance was a knee slide across the floor.
‘And I hit my knees and slide across the floor into a lineup of [former Paramount Pictures CEO] Sherry Lansing, [screenwriter] Dean Pitchford, [producer] Craig Zadan’ – with the star adding director Herbert Ross was also in attendance.
He said: ‘And my knee explodes. Explodes! Pop. And they take me out of the soundstage on a stretcher.
Rob Lowe has revealed his Footloose audition ended in disaster after an ill-executed knee-slide left him needing a stretcher (pictured 1982 in The Outsiders)
The iconic 1984 film saw Kevin Bacon shoot to worldwide fame as dancing teen Ren McCormack – but Lowe, now 59, detailed his own botched audition for the film during a chat on Bacon’s podcast, Six Degrees With Kevin Bacon
‘Craig Zadan and the producers, who were friends of mine and were very pro-me doing this movie go up to me and go, “Hey man, it’s cool. At the end of the day, we really decided, we’re just going to hire a dancer for the part”‘.
He quipped to Bacon ‘a week later they hire you.’
Lowe revealed his reaction upon finding out Bacon had snagged the role, saying: ‘Goddamn these guys! That’s a real actor!’
The original musical-drama – directed by Herbert Ross – starred Kevin as Ren McCormack, a teenager who moves to a small town and attempts to overturn the local ban on dancing.
Though it opened to mixed reviews from critics, it was a box office hit, grossing $80,035,403 domestically, and becoming the seventh highest-grossing film of that year.
Rob began his career at age 12 in 1976, with a role as an errand boy in a summer theater production of Sherlock Holmes in Dayton, Ohio.
He starred in the 1983 TV film Thursday’s Child, which led to him receiving his first Golden Globe nomination.
Rob became a household name after starring in The Outsiders and then St. Elmo’s Fire.
He said: ‘And the end of the dance was a knee slide across the floor. And I hit my knees and slide across the floor… And my knee explodes’ (pictured 2023)
Though it opened to mixed reviews from critics, it was a box office hit, grossing $80,035,403 domestically, and becoming the seventh highest-grossing film of that year (pictured Kevin Bacon and Lori Singer)
