in 1983 Outsiders boasted a cast of young actors who had achieved major Hollywood success. More than 40 years later, the film’s director shares their star-making auditions.
On Wednesday, Francis Ford Coppola took to Instagram to share footage of Tom Cruise, Diana Lana, Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Patrick Swayze and more from their auditions to portray a group of teenage hookers from Oklahoma in his film. Outsidersbased on the 1967 novel of the same name by author SE Hinton.
Anthony Michael Hall also appears in one audition tape, applying for the role of the main character of Ponyboy; C. Thomas Howell was eventually cast.
“We acted 42 years ago Outsiders in a unique way. We had all the actors together on a sound stage and we would alternate between different actors reading different roles,” Coppola wrote in the video’s description. He went on to describe that having each actor watch their colleagues audition “could have been a volatile situation turned in a very positive way.”
“A natural respect and sense of cooperation emerged between them,” the director added in his caption. “The result was beautiful and reminded me of my days as a camp counselor.”
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Several Outsiders‘ stars commented on Coppola’s post to reminisce about their time working on the film. “The people who came to these auditions … many went on to have great careers,” Howell, 57, wrote in a comment. “Incredibly.”
“Feels like it was yesterday!” Lowe, 59, added.
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“These auditions and this film experience still inform me today,” said Macchio, 62. “Thank you, Francis (and Susie) ❤️.” Director and actor Eli Roth added in his own commentary that The Outsiders is an “instant classic,” while actor Frank Grillo wrote that the audition footage was “amazing to see.”
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Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Thomas C. Howell, Patrick Swayze and Tom Cruise in the 1983 film The Outsiders.
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Outsiders takes set in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the 1960s and follows brothers Ponyboy Curtis (Howell), Darrel Curtis (Swayze) and Sodapop Curtis (Rob Lowe) and their group of friends some time after the deaths of the Curtis brothers’ parents. Its plot mainly revolves around the conflict between a group of greasers and the town’s more affluent teenagers, known as the Socs.
Dillon, 60, and Lane, 59, starred in another Coppola film adapted from Hinton’s novel, Rumble Fishalso published in 1983.
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