Francis Ford Coppola is celebrating his memorable movie The Outsiders with footage of the auditions that introduced collectively the movie’s younger stars, virtually all of whom went on to even better glory.
Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, Diane Lane, Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon, and Rob Lowe had been a part of the magic forged.
“42 years in the past, we forged The Outsiders in a singular approach,” Coppola wrote in an Instagram submit Wednesday. “We had all of the actors collectively on a soundstage and would alternate totally different actors studying for various roles.”
He continued: “It was fascinating as a result of every of them was watching their competitors, so whereas it might’ve been a unstable state of affairs, it become a really optimistic one. There emerged the pure respect and sense of colleagueship amongst them. The end result labored fantastically and jogged my memory of my days as a camp counselor.”
The shared footage options the actors studying from the coming-of-age story, together with roles they wouldn’t play. Anthony Michael Corridor seems in a single audition tape, studying for the function of primary character Ponyboy, which went to C. Thomas Howell.
A number of of the forged added feedback on Coppola’s submit, reminiscing concerning the expertise. “The those that got here to those auditions… so many went on to have nice careers,” Howell wrote. “Superb.”
“These auditions and this movie expertise nonetheless inform me at present,” Macchio wrote, thanking the Oscar-winning filmmaker, whereas Lowe added, “Looks like this was simply yesterday!”
The movie tells of rival teen gangs in a rural Oklahoma city: the poor Greasers and the rich Socs. After Ponyboy and Johnny (Macchio) get right into a lethal brawl, they’re compelled to enter hiding.
