Revisited: The Power of Saying "Screw It" with Rob Lowe

How did you develop the case of the fuck-its? Where did it come from? Was it instilled in you and your parents or did you survive the career near-death experience and realize you survived so you'll be okay kind of thing?

If you talk to my family, particularly my brothers, they'll tell you I always had it.

Were you in the pecking order? I'm the oldest.

I think I've always had a lack of fear around like sort of ambition, audaciousness, lack of fear, whatever flavor you want to describe.

It's that same ingredient I think I kind of was born with.

So give me an example of something that at a risk you took and it didn't work out.

And it was like, oh, well, give me one.

Just give me one.

I got a bad one.

Agreeing to do a song and dance number to open the Academy Awards.

disaster i i wish you had talked to me before that i could have advised you against that

what

would

you

have said other than it's a horrible idea horrible idea okay so can you sing and dance let's start there

i can i'm an actor who sings

okay so you're a double threat

i can sing as well as russell crowe let's put it that way no no disrespect to russell crowe at all I mean, Kiefer Sutherland tours a band.

I think I could go up and do a duet with him.

I mean, I'm no Bacon Brothers.

So you decide to do a sock and dance for the opening of the Oscars.

Can't dance, really.

Okay, okay.

I mean, I didn't get footloose for a

reason.