💗The Outsiders💗

Repo Man (1984)

“Beer for breakfast, Two-Bit?”

Tom Cruise and Emilio Estevez were childhood best friends and they drove to the auditions for The Outsiders together. They attended Santa Monica High together as well. Emilio was Tom’s best man in his first wedding with Mimi Rogers.

Emilio and Tom attended the ‘Ishtar’ (1987) movie premier together. (If I’m correct, neither of them had a role in this movie and went together for the hell of it.)

Photo seemingly taken around 1983.

The Outsiders premier, 1983.

Starred in Mission: Impossible (1996) together.

Emilio, Nicole, Tom.

Tom and Emilio driving while on set for The Outsiders. (I think that might be Rob in the back but I’m not sure.)

You feel kind of hot. I’m okay. Be a pal and don’t tell Darry, okay? I’ll take a bunch of aspirins when I get home.

What’s up with the big times?

- Never made it through a whole book until his grandfather told him to read The Outsiders.

- Showed up to the audition for the movie with Emilio Estevez; they’d been friends since they were kids.

-Auditioned for Dally, Soda, Darry, and Randy.

- Literally begged Francis Ford Coppola to be in the movie.

- Broke his front teeth playing floor hockey in high school, then had first one and then both of the caps removed for the film to look more “authentic.”

- Avoided pictures on set because he was self-conscious about his teeth (according to Patrick Swayze) 

- Got punched in the jaw on accident while filming the rumble scene and then had to go and get more dental work the next day. (The dentist in Tulsa still has a picture of them together in his office.)

- Also broke his thumb filming the same scene.

- Came up with the idea for Steve’s tattoo himself.

- Supposedly showered as little as possible throughout the entire time they were shooting in order to look appropriately scruffy and dirty. (I…really hope this one isn’t true.)

- Used his relationship with his own father as inspiration for his performance, even though the details of Steve’s home life were left out of the movie.

- Decided to eat chocolate cake for 80 takes and thought he was going to die.

- Overate at lunch one day and didn’t feel well enough to do the flip off of the truck before the rumble so S.E. Hinton had him swallow raw eggs until he threw up.

- Wouldn’t let Rob Lowe win the arm-wrestling contest even though that was what was supposed to happen in the script.

- Got the script for Risky Business while filming The Outsiders.

- Invited Diane Lane to audition with him because he had a crush on her.

- Got yelled at by Diane Lane’s father for asking her to play a hooker.

- Lived on Rob Lowe’s couch at some point in the 80s.

- Asked Emilio Estevez to be the best man at his first wedding.