Owen Wilson Wants a Career Change

Owen Wilson may have become typecast as the lovable whiny wisecracker in comedies. After this summer's You, Me and Dupree, Wilson is hoping for a change of pace, perhaps playing a movie villain. "I think it would be fun to play," Wilson said. "I saw Robin Williams in this movie Insomnia. He's like a killer. I was like, 'What is Mork doing? This isn't right.' I would like to do that also but I wonder if people would have a problem with it. Behind Enemy Lines isn't, obviously, a comedy. I think that I could probably pull something off like that if given the chance."

Wilson fans may remember that he played a serial killer in the indie drama The Minus Man. "Yeah, I did play a serial killer, he says excitedly and laughing. Hampton Fancher and I had a great time working with Hampton. He wrote Blade Runner. That's actually the only part that I've ever gotten from auditioning so, I don't know, maybe I was able to tap into my inner psycho I guess to play that part."

Now that he's so well known for comedy, Wilson will have to actively pursue alternative roles. "I would definitely like to do a movie where the burden wasn't on that you had to get big laughs in set pieces. I think it would be nice to do a movie that had funny stuff but it was more sort of from the characters. I loved that movie Sideways. That has really funny stuff but it has a lot of emotional stuff. I think Wes and I tried to do that in some of the scripts that we worked on. I can't imagine ever doing a straight, serious movie that didn't have anything funny in it because I don't think that life is ever really like that. Even in Raging Bull the scenes between DiNiro and Joe Pesci, some of those are hilarious."