Fans may not have seen the last of Owen Strand.

9-1-1: Lone Star viewers said goodbye to the 126’s fire captain twice during the series finale in February — once when it appeared he died saving the rest of his crew (and the entire central Texas area) from nuclear disaster, and again when it was revealed he survived and serves as the fire chief for the New York Fire Department.

“I think Owen Strand, based on who he was, went out in the right way,” Owen actor Rob Lowe told Entertainment Weekly at the time of the finale, the star relishing the full-circle moment of his character returning home to the city he started Lone Star in. “I think you wrap things up based on a character’s history and what they represent.”

But now it seems things may not be fully wrapped up for Owen, as Lowe reveals he is open to reprising his Lone Star character on the upcoming ABC spinoff 9-1-1: Nashville.

“I’m just waiting for my phone to ring,” the Atkins partner recently told Decider, noting that his brother, Chad Lowe, serves as an executive producer and director on Nashville.

“I mean, you know, I hired him on Lone Star. I think turnabout is fair play,” Rob Lowe continued, referencing his brother’s role as an occasional director on the Fox drama — on which Chad also guest-starred as Owen’s brother, Robert, who died at the end of season 4.

When it premieres next season, 9-1-1: Nashville will star Chris O’Donnell as Capt. Don Sharpe, whom ABC describes as “a rugged fire captain and rodeo rider who runs Nashville’s busiest firehouse. Don is a devoted husband and family man, but he has his secrets.” Similar to Owen, Capt. Sharpe will work in the firehouse “alongside his beloved son,” per the character description.

The series also stars Jessica Capshaw, LeAnn Rimes, Hailey Kilgore, Michael Provost, Juani Feliz, Hunter McVey, and Kimberly Williams-Paisley.

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No word on if Williams-Paisley’s country singer husband Brad Paisley will guest star. But 9-1-1 showrunner Tim Minear (who will executive produce and write Nashville alongside his Lone Star co-showrunner Rashad Raisani and franchise co-creator Ryan Murphy) has also expressed interest in working with Lone Star actress Gina Torres again “soon.”

So maybe Owen won’t be the only 126 member taking a trip to Tennessee?

What do you think Tom Cruise is doing right now? Our guess is that if he isn’t diving off a cliff or dangling from a helicopter, he’s actively planning the next time he’ll be able to do so. One thing he’s not doing is appearing on podcasts, but luckily some of his former costars are ready to pick up the slack.

On the latest episode of Literally! With Rob Lowe, Lowe’s guest was his longtime pal Ralph Macchio, currently in theaters with Karate Kid: Legends. The two both appeared in Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, an early ’80s hit featuring an avalanche of heartthrob hunks.

Elsewhere in the cast (though in a role with limited screen time) was the young Thomas Mapother IV, better known to the world as Tom Cruise. The guys recalled how Cruise was dedicated to doing his own stunts well over 40 years ago.

“Whenever I see Tom do these amazing, insane stunts,” Lowe remembered, “I look back at when Francis made us, for whatever reason, practice to be gymnasts. Do you remember this?” 

Macchio confessed that he was able to get away without as much training, as his character, Johnny Cade, was more introverted.

“There was never any pressure on you to do a backflip,” Lowe said.

“Well, I wasn’t in the rumble. I was in the hospital,” Macchio reminded him. (God, has Rob Lowe even seen The Outsiders?!?!?)

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“That’s what it was,” Lowe added. “But there was a lot of pressure on us to learn backflips and do all this s— and I don’t know if you’ve ever learned a standing backflip. It’s hard, it’s scary as s— . Tom was the only one who did it. And if you watch the movie, the movie’s playing but then the movie just stops and there’s a shot of Tom doing a backflip for no reason and then the movie continues.”

Lowe’s not lying here. In the sequence where the Greaser gang exits their HQ on the way to go rumble with those lousy Socs, Cruise jumps up on a car, then does a backflip off of it, just because it looks cool.

“That’s where it started for him,” Lowe stated. “One hundred percent that’s where it started.”

Macchio remembered, “He was quite driven from day one. I mean, that gentleman had a plan, he really did. Very distinctly, it was happening there. He has the backflip and he comes up, grabbing the back of his head, because I’m not so sure he stuck the landing, but the car, it was out of frame.”

Lowe and Macchio then began to wonder if Coppola deployed a “Texas switch,” a filmmaking term for when careful blocking can mask when an actor is replaced by a stuntperson within the frame.

After Macchio playfully says that the shot could be a Texas switch, Lowe threw down: “Let’s start a rumor right now that Tom Cruise actually doesn’t do his own stunts and we have the evidence, and the evidence is The Outsiders.”

Macchio backed away from that, though, noting, “It’s kind of tough with the current footage that is playing on your feed right now of him not wearing a parachute,” referring to a particularly nutty moment in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.

“The burning parachute,” Lowe added. “It makes my stomach hurt.”

Macchio responded, “It’s incredible,” making it clear that both actors in truth have the correct amount of respect for Tom Cruise.

To hear more of the Johnny Cade-Sodapop Curtis reunion, listen to the latest Literally! With Rob Lowe podcast below.

While Tom Cruise is now well-known for doing his own (often dangerous) stunts, Rob Lowe says the actor seemingly got his start in on-screen physical antics thanks to 1983’s The Outsiders.

Speaking on SiriusXM’s Literally! with Rob Lowe, Lowe, 61, recounted how the film’s director, Francis Ford Coppola, had the cast of the film “practice to be gymnasts.”

“Whenever I see Tom doing these amazing stunts, I look back when Francis made us for whatever reason, practice to be gymnasts,” Lowe said, then asking Ralph Macchio (who was his guest on the podcast and also appeared in The Outsiders): “Do you remember this?”

“Well, yeah, everyone was doing their backflip,” Macchio, 63, said. “I mean, I got away with all that stuff as the Johnny kid, the introverted, internal [character]. He was walking by himself … I wasn’t in the rumble, I was in the hospital.”

Coppola’s coming-of-age classic costarred Lowe, Macchio, Cruise and a host of (then) up-and-comers, including  Emilio Estevez and Matt Dillon.

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Lowe said there was “a lot of pressure” on the cast “to like learn backflips and do all this s—.”

“And I don’t know if you’ve ever learned a standing backflip,” he added. “It’s hard, it’s scary as s—. And of course there was only one person — Tom was the only one who did it. And if you watch the movie, the movie is playing and then the movie just stops. And there’s a shot of Tom doing a backflip for no reason. And then the movie continues. I realized that’s where it started for him, 100% that’s where it started.”

Added Macchio: “And then he was quite driven from day one. I mean, that gentleman had a plan … he has the backflip and he comes up grabbing the back of his head ‘cause I’m not so sure he stuck the landing … it was out of frame.”

“By the way, maybe it’s a Texas switch,” joked Lowe, adding: “let’s start a rumor right now, that Tom Cruise actually doesn’t do his stunts and we have the evidence and the evidence is The Outsiders.”

Of course, Cruise does indeed do his stunts, with Lowe and Macchio noting that in his latest film, Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, Cruise filmed a scene in which he parachutes out of a plane, while the parachute is burning.

“Just when you think you’ve seen it all, the burning parachute …  It makes my stomach hurt,” Lowe said.