Owen Wilson is cool

After the box office failure of ‘Bottle Rocket’, a movie he co-wrote and starred in and his first movie with Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson reportedly thought he might never have a career in Hollywood. Wilson says:

“The studio said ‘Bottle Rocket’ was their worst-testing movie in history, so I looked into the marines. Maybe I was influenced by ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ or those Marine commercials – they were so cool! Like a Led Zeppelin song come to life, full of people pulling swords from rocks and fighting lava monsters.”

I get the feeling it wouldn’t exactly break Owen Wilson’s heart if you made him do a bong hit, so I like to think he’s joking, but who the hell knows. He might have thought the lava monsters on Scooby Doo were real too, and went down to defend the haunted amusement park with a cowardly dog. And knowing Owen, that Owen Wilson story would end like every other Owen Wilson story, with him having sex with many many beautiful ladies.