9. Tom Cruise vs. Rob Lowe
The Outsiders is filled with a young, energetic cast, who would almost all later become superstars, and loads of fisticuffs, so it should be no surprise that some of the physicality of the film leaked into real life. Rob Lowe admitted that during the filming he and the ever-strange Tom Cruise got into it. “We all beat the living s**t out of one another. We really did,” Lowe said. “I got one clean shot on Tom, and Tom is such a competitive lunatic – which is what I love about him – but the next thing you know he’s ready to kill me!” This is a pretty risky move for Lowe. While Cruise may not have been the couch-jumping-mad version of himself that he would later become, there was likely always a touch of crazy in ol’ Tommy boy.
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