He’s cowritten three beloved films with his college buddy Wes Anderson-scoring a best-screenplay Oscar nod for The Royal Tenenbaums-and acted in five of the auteur’s other movies. Wilson’s been A-list-leading-man famous for almost three decades. Not that there’s anything wrong with those topics.
Wilson doesn’t give many interviews, but he wanted to meet up and talk about his Texas-bred cultural touchstones, rather than the usual topics of conversation in a profile of Owen Wilson. Wilson, a pioneering Dallas TV executive who wrote multiple books and consulted for local arts institutions. Wilson has had a lifelong love for art and literature and institutions, instilled in him by his mother, the photographer Laura Cunningham Wilson, who assisted Richard Avedon, and his late father, Robert A. I was starting to realize Wilson was not just wading into the high-cultural firmament through his frequent visits to a single Westwood museum. Wilson-whose blond wavy locks, ampersand of a perma-broken nose, and slow-drawl Texas twang have carried dozens of 21st-century theatrical hits-said the filming went great and started ordering without looking at a menu. He said his kids love it too.Īs we walked through the atrium, Wilson mentioned that he really liked the show that had just closed, the Hilton Als–curated “Joan Didion: What She Means.” In fact, he liked it so much that after visiting he came to see the whole show again…and then went again, and again, and again.Īs we approached Lulu, the museum’s open-air restaurant, the server greeted Wilson like an old pal and asked him about a recent trip to Atlanta. I started to scream immediately, convinced I was going to eat shit, but Wilson, chill as ever, handled the Heatherwick whirligig just fine.
One sign came when we approached Thomas Heatherwick’s Spun Chair, a wobbly interactive installation meant to be mounted-the chair summons the unsettling sensation that one is about to be hurtled to the ground any first-timers are sure to get hit with some serious vertigo. After a few minutes of hanging out with Owen Wilson at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles last month, I came to realize-slowly at first, and then all at once-that the actor spends a lot of time at the Hammer Museum.
0 kommentar(er)
