Francis Ford Coppola’s The Outsiders is one of the greatest coming of age films of the 20th century. He and his cast of stars before they were stars accurately capture life on the wrong side of the tracks, but to get into character the actors had to go more method than they wanted to.

While speaking about the film with Kelly Clarkson, Rob Lowe revealed that the actors had to spend the night with strangers in order to find their characters. He says that he and a young Tom Cruise ended up on cots in a basement, Lowe still sounds annoyed:

When we were doing The Outsiders, we’re 18 and 19 years old. It’s Francis Ford Coppola, the director, who directed The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. and in his effort to make us more authentic as greasers, as sort of tough Tulsa, sort of wrong side of the tracks guys, (he) found a bunch of different actual greasers who were now grown-up adults and made us go spend the night and live with them. Tom and I ended up in the basement in two cots and we’re like, ‘We don’t know these people.’ I mean, who vetted them? Lees verder →