It's one of those funny coincidences that both you and Paget Brewster have new roles on prime time just as this is airing. Lowe: Well, I flatter myself greatly, but it would be great if it were Paul Newman circa Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. : At one point, Robert wonders who would play him in a TV-movie. I can't think of any specific thing, other than I am sure that it's happened. Lowe: I think everybody has that time when they really can get swept up in it. : But have you ever felt yourself get swept up in it, perhaps early in your career? Other people never wear it well, and other people. It takes some people a lifetime to wear it well. They're applauding something that isn't really you, so you have these conflicting. The problem is that you at the same time know that it's not really authentic, because they don't know you. Everybody wants to be liked, and everybody would love to walk down the street and have people applaud them. They said, "What is it about success that screws people up?" It's that you're so conflicted by it. Lowe: I was just talking to somebody about this. : Have you ever felt success start to get the best of you, as your character here does? When you're in the editing room, you're going to thank me." Lowe: I literally had a discussion with the director where I said, "We need carolers at the end." He said, "What do you mean?" I said, "Trust me on this. Put some snow on the street, play a carol in the background. It's the holidays, and everybody is sort of misty-eyed to begin with. That's why I like doing these movies, because they're just teed up for you. Lowe: I'm not unashamed to say that I like movies that make me verklempt. : This might be a silly question, but when you're reading a script for a holiday heart-tugger like this, do you, a veteran actor, ever get caught up in it? Get a bit verklempt? : Rob Lowe, thank you for your time today. welcomes the opportunity to Q&A Lowe on his projects, both past and present. What's more, the former Brat Packer stars with Paget Brewster in TNT's A Perfect Day (premiering Monday at 8 pm/ET), a holiday movie in which Robert Harlan, a newbie novelist, lets fame get the best of him, until a mysterious stranger ( Back to the Future's Christopher Lloyd) warns that he only has days to live. Rob Lowe, who famously exited The West Wing during its prime, and then ultimately went on to pass up filling McDreamy's scrubs, is at the fore again, amping up ABC's Brothers & Sisters as a senator who has taken a shine to Calista Flockhart's Kitty. You can't keep a good man down, let alone a fine actor.
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