Owen Wilson’s 20 best performances – ranked!

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As the Butterscotch Stallion turns 55, we look back at his most memorable roles, from a courageous navy officer to a cute sports car to a doltish male modelThis was a late-period Peter Bogdanovich film, a screwball spin on Ernst Lubitsch, that had Imogen Poots as the golden-hearted sex worker trying to break into show business. She walks into an audition in front of a big-shot Broadway director and realises he is the man to whose Manhattan hotel room she had gone the night before. And that director is played by Owen Wilson, with that good-natured, halting Texas drawl which was to feature to some degree in all of his performances. He is a pretty bland nice guy here – a default mode he sometimes goes into a bit too easily. Continue reading...

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