Rob Lowe's Three Red Carpet Poses

Rob Lowe breaks down his three red carpet poses: "Man of the People" (Tom Cruise's approachable stance), "Blue Steel" (sharp angles for the step-and-repeat), and "Iconic" (mid-movement hand gesture with an upward gaze). He once coached Chris Pratt on using them.
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Every single person now knows what only we used to know. Like the Olsen twins, when they— they did what they did famously. They created the prune. Do you know what prune— men don't have to do it, but when— but gals, if you're getting your picture taken and you— people say, say cheese. I don't get that. Never— she— that doesn't— but if you go prune, if you say prune, you get— you get the perfect— you get trout pout and cheekbones. See, the fact that I know this And I'm willing to share it openly. You're like the magician revealing the, the secrets. I have red carpet looks. I've got man of the people, I've got blue steel, and I've got iconic.
You have names for them? Yeah. Can you right now? Yeah, sure. Man of the people, please.
Man of the people is when you see like Tom Cruise at the rope line, at the, at the line, like reaching out to sign thousands of autographs. He's doing man of the people. Okay. And then Blue Steel is like— This is red carpet. You got your angles, you're doing your angles. Step and repeat.
Rob, over here! Rob, over here!
You want to show the watch that they've lent you.
Yeah.
And you need to show that because otherwise you're not getting a watch lent. So the question is, how do you get your hand up here? So it has to be you're caught mid, mid-move like this. That's a good— that's, that's, that's iconic. Yeah. Also looking up and off is always The presidential photographs are always hopefully looking off to the horizon, but the horizon's not down here, horizon's up there. So you're looking up to the horizon. Those are the 3. The best is I, I told Chris Pratt that. Yeah. We're mutual friends with Pratt, and early on when he was just becoming a movie star, he literally called me— he calls me Rollo— Rollo, I'm in the car, I'm on the way to the red carpet. What are the 3? What are the 3 again? Man of the people, iconic. And what's the other? I go, bluesy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, thanks, Rolo.
But this is the point, which is you understand it's an industry, it's a game. It's a game. There's a goof. There's a role to play. Yes. And if you play your role with a nudge and a wink, this is the secret to longevity, which is you take it seriously. Really seriously. But not too seriously.
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