Owen Wilson on the Bob Ross-inspired "Paint"

every Forest needs a tallest tree and I think   we found ours with probably  the most impressive shaft of it's Sunday morning on CBS and here again is Lee  Cowan that's Owen Wilson channeling a familiar   big haired TV painter in his new film paint Wilson  talks with Ben Mankiewicz about a career he says   he never could have put on canvas yeah Rembrandt  would be he could be like Sinatra while the Hammer   Museum in Los Angeles is an unlikely haunt for  a Hollywood star a van Gogh Owen Wilson is not   your average a-lister now look at this color  here yeah there's something that inhibits me   from talking about a painting on camera right  because I just I can't get over that in person   or on screen you'll show my novel to Gertrude  Stein that's self-effacing charm is undeniable   it even started to say brush strokes and I was  like don't say pressure at 54 Wilson continues   to carve out a varied movie career do you  some guy take cat to be a lawfully wedded wife as a romantic lead [Music] in action movies and his signature comedies we even  shot one of these things before   the whole 17 years we've known each  other I've been sneaking off to go   on little hunting trips around the world no  I don't even know what the [ __ ] the quail   is whether it's an Uninvited Guest with  Vince Vaughn and Wedding Crashers [Music]   or engaging in a dance-off with  Ben Stiller in zoolander [Applause] and just splash it onto there don't worry it's not  rocket science his latest is "paint" it's harder   PBS Burlington an off-beat comedy where Wilson  plays a painter hosting a TV show at a PBS station   in Vermont Carl is one-dimensional and very sexist  you know I don't care what people say about me   the work and the success remain a bit of  a surprise to him I definitely consider   myself lucky making a living doing something  creative that seems incredible incredible but   not improbable for a kid raised around the  Arts in Dallas his mother is a photographer   his father like Wilson's latest character  has a PBS connection we have to move right   into our programming which is after all  all that really counts running the first   PBS station in the states to air a show  featuring a certain British comedy troupe they were the first station to carry Monty  Python years later I met Terry Gilliam and he   said you know we're incredibly grateful your  dad gave us a big break Wilson never thought   about acting in school school in fact was a bit  of a challenge his high school expelled him I   got kicked out for Cheating in Geometry I was  the only kid that was caught that was kind of   called in Wilson could have saved himself if  he'd been willing to identify the other kids   involved you wouldn't name that I didn't name  names so off he went at 16 to the New Mexico   Military Institute I did pretty well I got  good grades and like all these things it ends   up being a better story he ended up in college  at the University of Texas where a friend from   military school introduced him to another  student without that thing happening then   you know Wes and I probably don't become friends  Wes is writer director Wes Anderson who became   Wilson's roommate at Texas and his lifelong friend  they've made eight movies together including the   Royal Tenenbaums and The Grand Budapest  Hotel not long after college they co-wrote   their first feature bottle rocket with Anderson  directing and Wilson playing the league [Music]   did you hear that I did Bottle Rocket and people  started hiring me and it was like well you know   it took a little bit a few movies before I could  sort of accept or say I guess this is what I do   yeah I guess I'm an actor as an actor Wilson with  his unique boyish good looks and those blonde   locks soon morphed into a scene stealer prone to  ad-lib like this bit here in Meet the Parents with   Robert De Niro who was clearly impressed I'd love  to find time to do some volunteer work just the   other day I saw this golden retriever that he had  like a gimp with a paw was uh hurt broke my heart   Owen Wilson is entirely comfortable discussing his  characters talking about himself is a different   story why are you guarded with your emotions has  he always been that way I think it's well I think   just growing up in Dallas to have said you wanted  to be an actor and be in movies would have sounded   like okay yeah me too and then I want to go win  the lottery after that it would have just sounded   ridiculous that guardedness is understandable in  2007 came a widely reported story that Wilson had   attempted suicide he doesn't discuss it publicly  but he has said that his family played a big role   in his recovery his older brother Andrew moved  in with him for a bit after he left the hospital   he's still clearly a big influence that's a great  feeling when you've got some backup and my older   brothers continued always to be kind of you know  somebody who's helped me a lot the Wilson Brothers   Andrew Owen and Luke also a successful actor are  still close you know it's like that Paul Simon   song and with the boys troops uh late in the  evening yeah and what draws you to places like   this there is something about going into a museum  that is just sort of a little bit meditative and   also like going to like a church or Cathedral you  kind of feel good afterwards the museum brings in   peace of mind and perhaps a little inspiration  for his latest film is that Rembrandt well this   reminds me of that app where it matches you to an  old classic it's never very flattering and I'll be   like really that's that's that's the lightness for  me I mean the hair Carl hair that's Carl Nargle   Carl Nargle is Wilson's character in paint that  tree is probably too tall brace yourself you are   going to get some calls clearly inspired by Bob  Ross who hosted a PBS painting show for 11 years   starting in 1983. let's have another one maybe  he lives right there he's slow soothing voice   voice and permed hair have remained ubiquitous  on the internet did you watch Bob Ross yeah but I   can't quite do an imitation let's just take it all  in Wilson didn't get Ross's voice down but he got   Ross's Essence and he made the character funny  how is everything excuse it's good good thing   which is what Owen Wilson has been doing since he  was a kid you're entitled to your favorite TV show   what makes this country great  you think you're a good actor   um I don't think that I'm you know good uh  I do think there's some yeah I think there's   some parts that I that I think I can play well  yeah well I got news for you you're a good actor

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Length: 7min 56sec (476 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 26 2023