![]() Yet he hasn't put his name to any other scripts. Wilson also has writing credits on Anderson projects such as Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums. Their partnership has remained fecund over the succeeding decades. It never even occurred to me and my brothers that that was a possibility. From the beginning Wes wanted to become a director and wanted to work in movies. “I think all this really began with meeting Wes in college,” he says in that disconcertingly ingenuous way. Seeing your children in danger can really trigger adrenaline.” But it is more important that he’s a father protecting his kids. “I think that, for me, was one of the things that was helpful about playing the part,” he says. Rebel hell: Owen Wilson and Lake Bell in No Escape As a father of two, Wilson must have connected with the character. Dad is forced to take any number of risks for his children. The film concerns a family who, after relocating to an unnamed country in south-east Asia, are forced to flee when rebels launch an assault on all foreigners. Owen Wilson has tweaked the "Owen Wilson" persona a little more vigorously than usual for his role as a desperate father in the impressively rugged, consistently gripping action thriller No Escape. In terms of playing exactly yourself? You never quite do that. “You try to play something you feel credible doing – that you think is funny. “Yeah, look, you usually play somebody you can imagine yourself playing,” he drawls good-naturedly. ![]() You've seen him play it up in films such as Wedding Crashers, Meet the Parents and Shanghai Knights. But for all his years in Hollywood and his lengthy companionship with the artistic elite, Owen Wilson still comes across like one popular conception of a typical Texan. We shouldn't really stereotype Americans by the state of their birth.
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