Rob Lowe reveals Tom Cruise went ‘ballistic’ having to share room during filming of ‘The Outsiders’

Tom Cruise’s ex castmate has revealed the Hollywood star wasn’t too keen on sharing his space while filming – even before he was famous.

Tom Cruise apparently wasn't exactly in a sharing mood when he started filming The Outsiders.

Rob Lowe made the revelation when he recently appeared on Dax Shepard’s podcast Armchair Expert, where he opened up about working on the hit 1983 drama film, which streams on Foxtel Now, in which Lowe starred as one of the Greasers, Sodapop Curtis, alongside Cruise, who played Steve Randle.

Lowe, 56, told Shepard that the Top Gun star couldn’t keep it together upon learning he would be bunking with Lowe while filming the movie, which was directed by The Godfather creator Francis Ford Coppola.

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“All of the LA people survived the LA auditions, and then the hand-picked people had to go to New York to face the New York version,” Lowe explained to Shepard. “So it was me and Tom Cruise and Emilio (Estevez) and C. Thomas Howell.

“(It was the) first time I ever stayed at The Plaza Hotel, and we check-in, and Tom finds out that we’re sharing a room and just goes ballistic.”

Though the pair worked side-by-side, Lowe quipped to Shepard that Cruise simply already knew his value, and recalled the Mission: Impossible star doing his own stunts early on his career.

“He ended up being the only one who could do a backflip. It is in the movie The Outsiders for no reason,” Lowe said. “He runs out of the house and does a backflip for no reason. Just to do it.”

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The cast of The Outsides, from the left is Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze and Tom Cruise. Picture: AP/Warner Bros

The ensemble cast also consisted of Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, and Emilio Estevez, which Lowe believed fed into the huge chip Cruise, 57, kept on his proverbial shoulder.

“To me, what’s great about the story is, there’s certain people who have always been who they are, and that element of them has powered them to where they are today and the rest is history,” Lowe said.

“And the notion that an 18-year-old actor (Cruise) with a walk-on part in Endless Love and like a seventh lead in Taps could have that kind of like, wherewithal.”

Lowe then praised Cruise adding that he was blown away by the Jerry Maguire performer’s acting chops.

“I remember going, ‘Wow, this guy is the real deal’,” Lowe said.

Tom Cruise at the 2019 Comic-Con International in San Diego. Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

“I mean it made me laugh, it was gnarly. But in the end of it, you can't argue with the results. He’s had his eye on the ball since day one.”

Shepard echoed the sentiment: “That's what I liked about it too. No one (just) knocks on anyone's door and says ‘Hey, you wanna f***ing be in 12 Mission Impossibles?’” he said.

This story originally appeared on Fox News and has been reproduced here with permission