Owen Wilson in You, Me and Dupree
Owen Wilson on You, Me and Dupree
“We had this Dalmatian that we had when we were kids that my parents got us named Nutmeg,” he said. “This dog was just insane and tore up everything and my parents wanted to send it to go ‘live on a farm.’ That’s what they were telling us, where it would have more space and we were crying ‘noooo’ and finally my parents began to fall in love with the dog and Dupree has a little bit of that quality. That was the inspiration, after some of our family dogs growing up.”
Dupree’s dream job is just to be a motivational speaker and tell people how to find their “ness.” “Somebody was saying the Tony Robbins used to live in his car so if Tony Robbins can do it, I don’t see why Dupree couldn’t become sort of a force out there. I think his message is kind of a good one, ‘stay loose, stay liquid, laugh a lot.’ What else is there?’
He’s also looking for love, longing for an Audrey Hepburn in real life. “I like that Dupree’s ideal is Audrey Hepburn and when Kate is saying that she is having a hard time imagining Audrey Hepburn listening to ‘Funky Cold Medina’, Dupree says he doesn’t have a hard time. He can picture it very clearly.”
This sort of lovable loser has become the forte of Wilson. One day he would like to play Matt Dillon’s role of the patient friend Carl. “I definitely could identify with a lot of Carl’s feelings and the lines that he says. When I originally started working on the script with the writer, he pitched me the idea, I did think of myself as maybe playing Carl and, there was a possibility, at one point, that I was going to play Carl. I think I could have definitely related to some of the stuff that he goes through but I think everybody can. You’ve either experienced a Dupree or you’ve been a Dupree and, in my case, I’ve had both.”
You, Me and Dupree opens to theatres this Friday, July 14th.
For the trailer, movie stills, more interviews, early reviews, more movie info and full synopsis, go to the You, Me and Dupree Movie Page.
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