Thankfully, Aaron Sorkin didn’t script the actor’s late-night moment
Rob Lowe is no stranger to politics. The actor starred on The West Wing for four seasons as Sam Seaborn, the deputy White House Communications Director. So why wouldn’t Lowe want to join Kamala Harris on the campaign trail as her running mate?
During an appearance on The Tonight Show, Lowe threw his (fictional) hat in the ring to be Harris’ potential vice president. The actor interrupted host Jimmy Fallon‘s monologue with a faux audition, proclaiming, “I’ll do it.”
“America, I’m not like the others,” Lowe said as the Roots played patriotic music. “There’s no greater outside than the person who starred in The Outsiders. I can adapt to any situation. I can be comedic, like in Tommy Boy. Dramatic, like in St. Elmo’s Fire. Or stop a nuclear threat, like in Atomic Train. So remember when they go high, we go Lowe.”
The actor was actually visiting the late-night show to chat with Fallon about his Netflix series, Unstable, which returns for season two on Aug. 1. He previewed the new episodes, discussing new cast members Fred Armisen and Lamorne Morris, and working with his son John Owen Lowe.
Lowe recently appeared in Hulu documentary Brats, about the rise of the so-called Brat Pack in the 1980s. Andrew McCarthy, who appeared in the doc alongside Lowe, told Rolling Stone, “We were labeled in a way that we didn’t want to be labeled. We sort of instantly had the narrative of our careers taken from us. That’s how it felt, at least. The great irony of ‘the Brat Pack’ is the minute that name became a label, it ended. Because the people who were in it no longer wanted to be associated with it, and the people who making those kinds of ensemble films with young actors no longer wanted to make ‘Brat Pack’ films.”
