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Rob Lowe was asked to name his best onscreen kiss ever on Watch What Happens Live.
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The Musical actor’s answer was a moment from the earlier part of his career.
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Lowe has been married to Sheryl Berkoff since 1991.
Rob Lowe has had a lot of onscreen kisses, dating back to his days as a teen idol in the ’80s.
But the star of The Musicalwas asked to pick the very best smooch he’s ever had for the cameras when he appeared Sunday on Watch What Happens Live, during the “Plead the Fifth” segment.
Lowe, who married Sheryl Berkoff in 1991, had a quick answer: “I told you I wasn’t gonna plead the fifth. It’s Nastassja Kinski.”
The actress costarred with Lowe in 1984’s The Hotel New Hampshire.
Jodie Foster, Beau Bridges, and Paul McCrane also appeared in the dramedy based on a 1981 novel by John Irving.
When host Andy Cohen asked Lowe why he’d chosen Kinski, the star of movies including 1984’s Paris, Texasand 1994’s Terminal Velocity, Lowe confessed that he was intimidated by her beauty.
“At that moment in time, she was probably the most beautiful woman I certainly had ever seen,” Lowe said. “I was definitely scared. I was very, very scared.”
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Lowe was also asked about his own status as what Cohen described as “one of the sexiest men in Hollywood for decades.” What was his secret?
“I was a little pretty,” Lowe said. “There’s no denying it.”
Pressed to name his best feature, he cited his hair, but noted that he drinks “a lot of milkshakes,” so he could be in better shape.
The former Brat Packer was dating Little House on the Prairie star Melissa Gilbert while he was making The Hotel New Hampshire.
Around the same time, Lowe had his breakout role in 1983’s The Outsiders, which famously starred a roster of up-and-comers, including Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez, Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon, and C. Thomas Howell.
Gilbert wrote in her 2009 memoir, Prairie Tale, that Lowe cheated on her during their teen romance with, yes, Kinski, and another actress he worked with, Demi Moore, his costar in 1986’s About Last Night.
The Little House star wrote that she got revenge on Lowe by having a fling with his friend John Cusack.
“We ended up having a little fling, which I kept from Rob,” Gilbert wrote. “It was my own private ‘screw you.’ Only John and I ever knew about it. He was very sweet and funny.”
But she and Lowe got back together until they split for good in 1987.
Lowe went on to begin dating his future wife in 1989.
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