Owen Wilson Answers The Web’s Most Searched Questions | WIRED

hi i'm owen wilson and this is the wired auto complete interview [Music] no i have not googled myself i can't think of anything worse how did owen wilson get his start i guess university of texas wes anderson and i became friends and college roommates and then we started writing a screenplay together that became bottle rocket how did owen wilson get his nose broken uh at university of texas yeah playing uh we're doing intramural flag football and i got bang but also i think just like as a kid just rough roughhousing how many movies are owen wilson and ben stiller in together i don't know feels like 70. you know because we have a lot of sequels and stuff so we have the meet the parents so there's three we have the night at the museums that's three right there although ben was never there at night at the museum because you know steve coog and i play these little miniature characters so uh they didn't need him there then we were in royal tenon bombs and starsky and hutch and the first movie uh uh permanent midnight i feel like there's one more but that's nine right there actually twelve 12 movies there's 12 yeah with ben what am i leaving out oh yeah zoolanders yeah how could i forget that yeah yeah we had two zoolanders i think it's 11 but uh but they're telling me 12. okay how many movies are owen wilson and vince vaughn in together wedding crashers of course and zoolander and [Music] oh an internship so it's just three four four star oh he was like yeah that's right he's really funny he kind of does a little dancing thing in the bar mitzvah scene uh that makes me laugh let's go right here is owen wilson in every wes anderson movie no i'm not i wasn't in moonrise kingdom and i wasn't in a few others i guess my favorite i mean i always have a soft spot for bottle rocket the first one but then darjeeling limited i think the story kind of about three brothers was something that um of course i can relate to and i just love being in india so maybe that's my favorite is owen wilson australian yes he is g'day do they think that is that something they think i think that's kind of nice because australians kind of uh they sort of have the reputation of sort of a kind of a hail fellow well met and maybe there is sort of i'm from texas and maybe there is a slight overlap in um kind of the brashness of texans and australians i like a lot of australian movies and um and i've had fun being there so yeah let's say yes okay next one is owen wilson a good skateboarder you know this one people think a lot that i'm a skateboarder because i did this escape video yeah right that spike jones uh directed i do a trick in it that people think is me but some people say it's eric coston and they did a cowboy switch and it wasn't me but um i think it was me is owen wilson coming back to loki um yes he is coming back to loki and i think we're gonna start filming that pretty soon i had a great time working on loki i really enjoyed tom hiddleston and all the people on that it's very satisfying doing that who was older luke or owen wilson that would be i'm older i'm three years older than luke was owen wilson in a fraternity decidedly not in a fraternity i didn't graduate from college were you in the frat talk though that's kind of like a fraternity of um yeah was that what did they call that they no i think the frat wasn't that the thing with rob lowe and emilio estevez in them i think they that's what got called the frat pack but maybe the group of comedians that they talk about sort of ben stiller and jack black i forget what the name was for that but um yeah maybe i was a member of that i wouldn't want to be a member of any club that would have someone like me as a member what's that joke was owen wilson a model no i wasn't who what does this one mean what's this one who is your daddy owen wilson my father who's my dad my dad is um robert wilson bob wilson great dad and from boston although we grew up in dallas because my dad worked in dallas and uh when we were kids he was the head of the pbs station in dallas just a great guy yeah i miss him well i worked with ed helms on that movie father figures and we just had a great time working together it's funny kind of when you show up to work kind of you know some days you kind of look forward to it more than others but when i was working with ed i knew you know when i showed up was going to be fun just kind of talking sometimes it can be kind of awkward when you're kind of left sort of sitting you know in a car doing a scene when they're not rolling but with ed and i i don't know we just really got along owen wilson turkey movie free birds uh where i think the tag line was hang on to your nuggets pretty good and uh owen wilson zoolander quotes i mean the one that people always say is uh han sol so hot right now but i think that was will ferrell who says that oh there's something about with spider monkeys like tripping with spider monkeys doing chocolate mesclun or i can't remember what it was oh who are you trying to get crazy with essay don't you know i'm loco yeah and that came from that cypress hill song owen wilson and jennifer lopez together again in marry me and we worked in anaconda and um i think this movie was about proving that that chemistry that we showed in anaconda wasn't just a fluke owen wilson yellow jumpsuit that would be bottle rocket but uh you know i've worn a jumpsuit in a lot of movies and i feel like it's always a good um when i see that in my wardrobe i feel like it's going to be a good movie because i wore it in zoolander and behind enemy lines i'm sort of wearing a jumpsuit a flight suit with jackie chan did i have one that seems like i had a jumpsuit but they're saying no but yes canary yellow jumpsuit and bottle rocket owen wilson haunted house movie well this is a genre that um that i'm returning to i did um the haunting and that wasn't wonderfully received and so uh you know a lot of people would have maybe shied away from that genre but i'm going back and this time we're going to get it right although i think it still did well and it was fun uh there was a good cast on on on that movie and i had fun doing it owen wilson bubba fett what's the connection there i don't know i mean no not that i know of but i like that character boba fett is like one of the uh he's the bounty hunter right yeah so as a kid you know that was like one of the cool characters bubba fett great name too bubba fett what is owen wilson filming right now i'm in new orleans and we're making a movie called haunted mansion and what is the source material for this is it a book or is it this no it's actually a ride a disney ride what animal does owen wilson play in fantastic mr fox i played coach skip i think and the name of the game is uh slap slap bat or slap back or hot box no hotbox is something we played as kids where it's like a man in the middle that you're trying to tag out what is owen wilson's middle name my middle name is cunningham and that's my mom's maiden name and luke and andrew my two brothers they also have the same middle name and you know when you're like a kid and people kind of look up your middle name in school so they would kind of you know say richie cunningham and stuff and make fun of it from happy days what color are owen wilson's eyes blue azure does owen wilson play guitar no i don't although um in starsky and hutch they have me kind of uh playing a guitar and i'm actually on the soundtrack for starsky and hutch singing a david soul song don't give up on me baby i think and actually when i was in australia i remember walking into a bar and hearing like a song going god that voice sounds familiar and it was my voice although i'm not very musical and my friend george streculius who did the music on starsky and hutch said that i broke three auto-tune machines trying to get that song right does owen wilson have tattoos i just have one tattoo that i got in college on my shoulder a four-leaf clover that says luck i wanted it to say lucky and then i kind of chickened out and just had it say luck does owen wilson sing well i kind of answered that uh that was part of my guitar answer i wish i did sing or wish i did sing well but i'll do karaoke and if you can't sing that well you know a good karaoke song one that i choose tequila because there isn't much singing all you have to do is go tequila okay that's it well that was just kind of a real walk down memory lane for me and it was great just kind of freestyling and uh kind of moonwalking and you know going through that [Music]

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Length: 10min 46sec (646 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 11 2022

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He'd better get his jet ski this time!

[u/vonbryan]

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[u/MVHutch]

I was surprised how much they made Mobius into a likeable character, considering he's not really a major character in the comics from what I remember

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Was obvious but the fact that filming is staring soon is the bigger headline here.

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Wonder what they'll do for Loki season 2

[u/Matgol]

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