By Lorena Blas, USA TODAY
Days after police responded to what was logged as a suicide attempt at his Santa Monica, Calif., home, Owen Wilson has dropped out of his next film project.
The actor, 38, who remained in the hospital Wednesday, was to start working on the DreamWorks comedy Tropic Thunder, with pal Ben Stiller, in a few weeks. But Wilson's hospitalization has meant putting his career on hold.
Even though Wilson has portrayed happy-go-lucky characters, friends acknowledge that the pressures of Hollywood have fostered his demons. "Oh, he has a dark side, definitely," producer friend Polly Platt tells People's next issue, on stands Friday.
"People can't understand the pressures," adds Platt, who worked on 1996's Bottle Rocket with Wilson. "Agents telling you to do this movie or that, people treating you differently."
Wilson has "a little John Belushi in him" and has explored "the hard stuff" in the past, People reports. It adds that Wilson entered rehab at least twice in the past 10 years: at Promises in Malibu, Calif., and at Hazelden in Minnesota.
Wilson's next screen appearance, The Darjeeling Limited, an adventure/comedy co-starring Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman, will open as planned on Sept. 29, Fox Searchlight said in a statement Wednesday.
5 comments:
Jesus, "People" didn't waste any time did they.
Although we're all (including myself) morbidly fascinated by it as usual.
I'm glad they pointed out that it won't hold up the release of The Darjeeling Limited, although I don't see how it could since that movies already finished. Duh.
Owen is the last person I would have expected to do this. Why couldn't Tom Cruise or Mel Gibson try and off themselves? Or Zac Efron for that matter?
I agree! I think Owen is hilarious.
Apparently the lady in charge of the Producers Program at UCLA "discovered" Owen and Luke Wilson, and she has this whole thing about how smart and well read Owen is. He's some kinda' writing genius. Never really thought he'd be a big actor. So I bet he's all moody and overwrought, like any smarty pants.
But the real reason he's sad is he never got to date me. Poor guy.
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