John Owen Lowe loved every bit of his experience working as a writer on the series “9-1-1: Lone Star” — except the presence of one particular cast member was starting to wear on him.
So how does one go from wanting to branch away from working with dad to writing a series based on their relationship in which they both star?
His conversations with his team while he was working on “9-1-1” eventually arrived at how universal the desire to get out from under your parents’ shadow is — even if your dad happens to be Rob Lowe — while also feeling a pull to be around them. Lowe ended up writing a treatment of an idea about his relationship with his dad and, soon “Unstable” was born.
“I liked creative writing and I almost minored in it at school and at one point I thought, ‘I’d like to see what a writer’s room is like.’ Sort of dipping my toes into it and worked as a PA in a few different writers’ rooms,” Lowe says. “I got the coffees and I got the lunches and I fell in love with that writer’s process. My dad likes to joke that he was all sad because he thought I was going to be a doctor or a scientist, and I ended up acting.
“The non-comedic take is that it’s a conversation that’s happening for a reason. I think it’s an important conversation. I think that it speaks to a certain level of self-awareness that I think people should have around opportunity and how others are just gifted it for no reason,” he says. “I didn’t do anything special to be born into the position I was born into. The nepo baby didn’t ask to be born as a nepo baby so they don’t necessarily need to apologize for it.
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