Owen Wilson “Doing Well,” Says Film Director
Posted September 3, 2007 12:00 pm.
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Owen Wilson is reportedly “doing well” as he recovers from an apparent suicide attempt, and is even making colleagues laugh, according to the director of his latest film.
“Obviously he has been through a lot this week,” said Wes Anderson, who directed Wilson in “The Darjeeling Limited,” one of the films in competition for the Venice Film Festival’s top award.
“I can tell you he has been doing very well, he has been making us laugh,” Anderson told a news conference to promote the film.
“When he is ready he’s going to speak for himself much better than any of us could,” the director said, asking that the actor’s privacy be respected.
Wilson and Anderson have worked together for more than a decade, in pictures including “The Royal Tenenbaums.”
The 38-year-old actor was taken by ambulance to a hospital last week after police responded to a call about a suicide attempt at his Santa Monica home. The day after he was hospitalized, he issued a statement asking for privacy so he could “receive care and heal.”
After being hospitalized, Wilson dropped out of the upcoming DreamWorks movie, “Tropic Thunder,” which was already in production in Hawaii.
Owen Wilson gives a television interview as he arrives at the premiere of ‘The Wendell Baker Story’ at the Writers Guild theater in Beverly Hills on May, 10, 2007. (Photo Courtesy Getty Images/AFP/Robyn Beck)
