For John Owen Lowe, art imitates life.
On the latest episode of SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show, the writer and actor, 28, opened up about initially blurring the line between reality and fiction while working with father Rob Lowe on Unstable.
John Owen admitted that creating the character of Jackson, the son of eccentric entrepreneur Ellis Dragon (Rob), on the Netflix comedy was “really difficult,” adding, “I wanted it to be very reflective of my experience, but also not a direct pull of me because there was a version of the show we initially pitched that was honestly more Curb Your Enthusiasm-esque where we were playing Rob and Johnny.”
The pair decided they could “have more fun and get more out of it if we put it in a different world than ours,” John Owen explained of co-creating and co-executive producing Unstable with his dad.