‘I Destroy A Lot Of Takes’: Rob Lowe Says 'Wayne’s World' Taught Him How Not To Ruin A Scene With Laughter, But His Son Isn’t So Lucky On 'Unstable'

Interview with Rob Lowe and John Owen Lowe

Transcript

00:00I love your scenes with Fred Armisen.

00:02I don't think I'd be able to make it through

00:03a single scene with him without destroying takes.

00:07I destroy a lot of takes.

00:08I destroy a lot of takes.

00:09There's a lot of unusual footage with John Owen.

00:12See, I got trained with Mike Myers and Dana Carvey

00:15at their height in Wayne's World.

00:18And I destroyed a lot of takes in Wayne's World.

00:21And I was like, okay, I gotta get it together.

00:23So I pride myself.

00:25I do not break on camera anymore, but Johnny goes.

00:28I'll go, but this second season, I got better at it.

00:31And in fact, I will say, I'm the only person

00:33I've seen on set make Fred break.

00:36And we have it on tape.

00:37What were you doing that made him break?

00:40There, I don't know if I, there's a moment

00:42where Leslie attacks me with a physical object, Kane.

00:47Oh yes, yes.

00:48And there's, I think it's just a noise

00:51that I made he liked, so.

00:53We, in season two, we really wanted,

00:55we wanted to just sort of ratchet up everything,

01:00just amp everything up in season two.

01:02And, and a big part of that was giving Fred

01:06so much room to be the genius that he is.