Lowe has addressed why he parted ways with the Emmy-winning show on numerous occasions. In his 2012 memoir,to air grievances about his pay and storylines. “I tell him: ‘I know that Sam Seaborn is the part of a lifetime. I love this part unlike anything I’ve ever encountered. But I think it’s bullshit that I’m the only actor on the show who hasn’t been given even a penny raise,” he writes. Lowe says he went on to suggest that if more money was not possible, meatier material might be.
stage: “We would roll in at, like, 6 in the morning, and the ‘friends’ would come in, in their Ferraris and Lamborghinis, like, at 11:30 a.m., and by midnight they would have shot their show. They’d be gone and we’d be there until 6 in the morning. The sun would rise. That would never happen in TV today. Never. They’d never pay for the overtime. It was a moment in time, both in terms of the economics of the business and how successful the show was.