John Owen Lowe and Rob Lowe.Photo: Mark Williams & Sara Hirakawa for Men’s Health
Rob Loweand his son are entering new territory: as costars.
“Your parents, no matter who they are, always just bug you. Always. Even when you’re an adult,” John Owen told the outlet. “Your relationship changes as you get older and your parents become more like your friends — but they still bug you. As they should.”
Agreeing, Rob — who is also dad toMatthew, 30, both of whom he shares with wifeSheryl Berkoff— says, “neither one of us could have made this show without the other. I couldn’t have gone off and said, ‘Hey, I wanna do a father-son show without John Owen.'”
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Rob Lowe and John Owen Lowe.Mark Williams & Sara Hirakawa for Men’s Health
“That’s because he can’t write,” John Owen quipped.
“The number of times I got compared to my dad, and the number of times he was brought up in conversation, made me so uncomfortable that I wanted to move as far away from that as possible,” John Owen admitted.
Though he did heed his parents’ suggestion to try other career paths, the draw to writing “just kept bubbling up,” he said.
John Owen Lowe and Rob Lowe.Mark Williams & Sara Hirakawa for Men’s Health
“My take is, there is a healthy conversation in there somewhere. I’m always more than willing—and I think it’s important—to acknowledge that I did have opportunities that other people didn’t have. I did get that foot in the door that most people don’t, and for that I’m grateful,” the writer shares.
“And what is also true is that after getting that foot in the door, you do have to prove yourself. There’s a difference between children of nepotism who have just been platformed and coasted on that and the ones who have worked hard and care about what they do.”
source: people.com
