Owen Wilson's Five Favorite Films (original) (raw)

Owen Wilson's Five Favorite Films

The star of Marry Me chats about the movies that made a mark, from a gem he introduced to Wes Anderson in college to an action staple that blew him and his brothers away.

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Owen Wilson

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“God, I wish now that I’d had a chance to prepare because I’ve seen this on Rotten Tomatoes,” Owen Wilson tells us when we blindside him by asking for his desert-island films. “I like seeing people’s five favorite movies, seeing what they had.” But he takes a moment to think and rolls with it. “There are a few movies in my life that I saw on consecutive days,” he clarifies, then cooks up a list of memorable ’80s releases that fit that bill on the fly, a list that has envelope-pushing indie fare ranked smack dab next to the first installment in a Sylvester Stallone franchise. That breadth of sensibilities makes sense for the actor, who first came on the scene in Bottle Rocket, an endearing, offbeat, and basically ignored-at the-time film he co-wrote with Wes Anderson that we dubbed his funniest performance, and went onto become a household name, starring in huge movies opposite huge stars.

The latest of those (and the reason for our chat) is Marry Me, an odd-couple romantic comedy that opens on February 11th, in which Wilson shares the marquee with none other than Jennifer Lopez. In the movie, Wilson plays a mild-mannered math teacher who, during a sort of improvised publicity stunt, ends up getting hitched to a social-media-addicted pop star (Lopez) at one of her concerts. Before the film hits theaters on Friday, take a look at just a few of the movies that left an impression on Wilson before he entered the spotlight.

Owen Wilson’s Five Favorite Films

Marry Me opens in theaters and streams on Peacock on Friday, February 11, 2022.

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