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They didn\u2019t show Lowe the money.<\/p>\n

Rob Lowe revealed to The Post the one A-lister who kept getting the roles he was up for back in the \u201980s and \u201990s: \u201cThat dastardly Tom Cruise was always a nemesis.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI remember reading \u2018Jerry Maguire\u2019 . . . and they were like, \u2018Tom Cruise.\u2019 I also remember reading \u2018Top Gun\u2019 and going, \u2018Oh, this movie is going to be f\u2013king massive.\u2019 They were like, \u2018Tom Cruise.’\u201d<\/p>\n

The Brat Pack actor, 62, also dispelled the rumor that he was in the running for the lead in \u201cFerris Bueller\u2019s Day Off,\u201d which ultimately went to Matthew Broderick.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, that\u2019s a big regret,\u201d said Lowe, adding that the director of the 1986 hit comedy was never interested in casting him. <\/p>\n

\u201cJohn Hughes never got what I was selling,\u201d he said of the famed late filmmaker who was behind \u201980s classics like \u201cThe Breakfast Club\u201d and \u201cSixteen Candles.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI met with John once and it\u2019s not like he didn\u2019t have a lot of parts I could have done. When you really look at it, there were more than a few parts, multiple parts in some movies. Never, phone never rang.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lowe, who got his breakthrough role at 18 in 1983\u2019s \u201cThe Outsiders\u201d and went on to star in films like \u201cSt. Elmo\u2019s Fire,\u201d \u201cYoungblood\u201d and \u201cAbout Last Night,\u201d believes he knows why he wasn\u2019t considered by Hughes.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI have a theory about it; I think I was actually already too well known,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cJohn put in people who [weren\u2019t] already well known. He made people well known. At least that\u2019s what I tell myself to make myself feel better for not getting a role in \u2018The Breakfast Club.’\u201d<\/p>\n

In his new movie \u201cThe Musical,\u201d out Sept. 18, Lowe plays a middle school principal whose budding romance with a teacher causes another instructor who dated her first to spiral out of control.<\/p>\n

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Lowe, who grew up in\u00a0Dayton, Ohio,\u00a0said he was \u201can outcast\u201d when he transferred to Lincoln Junior High School after his family moved to Malibu, Calif.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was surrounded by kids who showed up an hour late with sand in their hair because they\u2019d been out surfing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I was looked down on because I sat in the front row and raised my hand all the time. So, I was an outcast because I had the audacity to be at school to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n

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