In TNT’s new TV movie, A Perfect Day, Rob Lowe plays a writer who forgets the important things in life due to the trappings of fame. After speaking with him live via teleconference call, we discovered that clearly, he does not have this problem. Here's what Rob had to say about fame, politics, and his favorite TV show - Wonder Showzen.
Like your character in A Perfect Day, fame is a part of your day-to-day life. How do you cope with it?
I feel comfortable with it because, like I said, it's been going on since I was 15. It’s almost a part of who I am at this point. I think if we’re all honest with ourselves, everybody would love to be able to walk down the street and have people smile and say, “Hey, you’re great!” But on the other side of it, you also know that those people don’t really know you. So it’s not really about you. It’s somehow unauthentic in a way, so there are very conflicting messages. It takes people a lifetime sometimes to figure out how to wear that. Some people never figure it out.
We're all great fans of Paget Brewster. What was it like working with her?
Isn’t she extraordinary in this movie? Without her this movie doesn’t work at all. I am just in awe of her. The thing I’m most proud of in the movie is the relationship I have with Paget. I think that you really believe that this couple loves each other, that they’re real. To watch that incremental sort of devastation of the relationship is really sad. We shot the scene when she reads my book for the first time on the second day. When she finished her close up, I said, "We’re in. We have the movie. It’s all downhill from here." She just nailed that so big time.
Why did you choose to shoot the film in New Orleans?
The production was originally going to be in Canada, but someone had also mentioned the possibility of New Orleans. I said, "Listen, I tell you what — I’ll take a pay cut if we can move it to New Orleans." And they took me up on it. So I was really happy to be able to bring it down to that economy. I think we were one of the first movies to come back to Louisiana. A lot of people were very concerned if there was going to be enough infrastructure to support a movie crew, but we did it, and the city was great. I loved it.
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