Rob Lowe’s son has undoubtedly inherited his father’s most striking feature — those beautiful, mesmerizing blue eyes. However, they have more in common than just their genes.
John Owen Lowe was once determined not to foray his nepo baby status into a career in showbiz. Per The New York Times, he even studied science technology at Stanford. But it didn’t scratch his creative itch, and by 2015, he was starring alongside his dad in “The Grinder.” Of his son’s major change of trajectory, Rob quipped to ET, “He was one of the leading interns in stem cell research. Now he’s going to be wearing makeup for a living.” John also decided to give writing a shot, eventually landing a gig working on the Ryan Murphy anthology “American Horror Story.” But because Rob was starring in another of Murphy’s shows, “9-1-1: Lonestar,” it was decided that it just made logical sense to force the father and son duo to work together, Rob explained on “Late Night with Seth Meyers.” John did not enjoy the experience. “I would vent to my manager and agent on a weekly basis and tell them that I wanted to get out of my dad’s shadow and they would kind of just laugh at my misery,” he told WWD.
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But working alongside his dad did give John an idea for a series that explores this father-son dynamic, and now he’s basically become his shadow. In addition to co-creating the Netflix series “Unstable,” he stars alongside Rob. John plays the son of Rob’s character, a narcissistic biotech mogul whose personality is inspired by Rob and Elon Musk.
