The 60-year-old Brat Pack icon reflects on fame and the rabid fandom that followed ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’, including people turning his character into a costume
At his peak Hollywood It Boy fame during the ’80s, Rob Lowe navigated a superstar life and some serious frenzied fandom. People broke into his house and nabbed his underwear. Cops had to break up screaming throngs. The list goes on.
“It was crazy stuff,” Lowe, 60, told PEOPLE recently while reminiscing about transformative moments throughout his life. “It’s the kind of stuff you look back on and go, did that really happen?”
But one of the more bizarre things that came in the wake of St. Elmo’s Fire, the Brat Pack era’s 1985 magnum opus? People dressing up as Lowe for Halloween.
“It was surreal,” he said of spotting strangers conjuring his character, Billy Hicks, the charismatic party boy with a heart of gold from the classic film.