As Rob Lowe has been speaking about his hope to supply and star in a sequel to “St. Elmo’s Fire,” the traditional, Nineteen Eighties coming-of-age drama, he’s additionally opening up about what it was prefer to be in his early 20s and dealing with a solid of different up-and-coming younger stars of their first, large breakout.
One in all Lowe’s “St. Elmo’s” co-stars was his longtime buddy Demi Moore, and the “West Wing” actor has revealed in a podcast interview this week that he and Moore “briefly” had a fling across the time they have been making the film, one of many signature initiatives of the so-called Brat Pack period.
“Did you have a crush on her?” Kelly Ripa requested Lowe on her “Let’s Talk Off Camera” podcast. “Did you guys ever date? Did you all date each other? Was it like, just — was it a big romp?”
“I mean, Demi and I briefly — I’m not telling tales out of school — we briefly had a thing,” Lowe, 60, stated after joking that it was a “big, big sex orgy” among the many group of younger actors on the “St. Elmo’s Fire” set.
Lowe additionally stated, “Anytime you put young 20somethings, men and women, together, hookups are inevitable. I don’t think that has changed.”
The “9-1-1: Lone Star” actor recommended that his “fling” with Moore occurred earlier than she started a romance after which grew to become engaged to their co-star and buddy Emilio Estevez — and definitely earlier than she started relationship Bruce Willis, whom she married in 1987.
“And then Emilio and Demi, I think, were engaged and then we all were at her wedding to Bruce,” Lowe stated earlier than including that it was the “biggest wedding I had ever been to up until then.”
In Moore’s 2019 memoir, “Inside Out,” the “Ghost” star mentions the potential for a Lowe hookup, whom she refers to as her “old pal.”
“In his own memoir, Rob suggests that we had some kind of hot-and-heavy romance,” Moore wrote. “I can vaguely recall one ill-advised late night together, but I’m grateful to him for the complimentary descriptions of our youth.”
“In truth, I liked all my costars and remain close to some of them today,” Moore stated, earlier than writing about her romance with Estevez, whom she admired for his “quiet confidence” and his “sand-colored hair and piercing blue eyes.” Moore and Estevez have been collectively till December 1986.
“St. Elmo’s Fire” adopted a gaggle of seven Georgetown College graduates, who’re looking for their means within the grownup world and who often meet up at a bar known as St. Elmo’s. The movie additionally starred different well-known members of the so-called Brat Pack: Andrew McCarthy, Mare Winningham, Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy.
The Brat Pack was again within the cultural dialog over the summer season with the discharge of McCarthy’s documentary, “Brats,” which chronicles the actors’ meteoric rise to fame in movies like “St. Elmo’s Fire” and “The Breakfast Club” and displays on how the Brat Pack moniker affected them personally and professionally.
In “St. Elmo’s Fire,” Moore performed Jules, a celebration woman who develops a cocaine behavior — a storyline she has stated mirrored her personal substance abuse issues on the time. In the meantime, Lowe performed Billy, a hard-partying saxophonist; Lowe has additionally been outspoken about his youthful struggles with medicine and alcohol, however stated in a latest Leisure Weekly article that he’s been sober for 34 years.
Moore and Lowe starred collectively once more within the well-reviewed grownup romantic comedy “About Last Night,” which was primarily based on a David Mamet play, “Sexual Perversity in Chicago.”
Lowe advised Leisure Weekly that he and Moore proceed to textual content one another a couple of potential “St. Elmo’s Fire” reunion. Moore, who’s presently garnering Oscar buzz for her function within the feminist body-horror drama, “The Substance,” advised Leisure Weekly on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant that she’s met with studio personnel to debate reprising her function as Jules.
“I have had a couple of sit-down meetings, and I think it would be great if we can come up with a story that I think holds up,” Moore defined.
Lowe advised Leisure Weekly that the sequel is presently “moving along,” including, “It’s going a little more slowly than I would have liked. But that’s a good thing, because we’re trying to find the right writer and the right story. But all of the actors, everybody is on board. Everybody is excited.”
