With the "nepo baby" discourse at an all-time high, some fans may find it hard to sympathize with John Owen Lowe when it comes to his personal quest of carving out an acting career independent from his father's Hollywood elite status. But that doesn't erase John Owen's very real struggles. "The number of times I got compared to my dad, and the number of times he was brought up in conversation, made me so uncomfortable that I wanted to move as far away from that as possible," he told Men's Health. But now, instead of running away from this issue, John Owen has shifted course, turning directly into it.
The real father-son dynamic in "Unstable" won't be too unfamiliar for comedy fans, as audiences have already embraced this type of on-screen connection. "Schitt's Creek" has already laid out the foundation, as father and son Eugene and Dan Levy joined forces for the Emmy award-winning comedy series, with the younger Levy becoming just as big a star in his own right as a result.
Now with "Unstable," John Owen's choice to stop running from his father's success is proving to be a much better choice. "I have adopted a new perspective on that, which is, when you're lost in the forest, sometimes the only way to get out is to go deeper into the forest," he told Variety. And for how exactly he's getting more comfortable working with his dad, John Owen revealed, "I like to tell him sometimes that he has a punchable face — and I don't have one of those because my jawline isn't quite as chiseled."
