Owen Wilson is doing well and is even making colleagues laugh, the director of his latest film said Monday.
“Obviously he has been through a lot this week,” said Wes Anderson, who directed Wilson in “The Darjeeling Limited,” which is up 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 said at 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, 38, was hospitalized Aug. 26 after what police called a suicide attempt at his Santa Monica, Calif., home.
Wilson and Anderson have worked together for more than a decade, in pictures including “The Royal Tenenbaums.”
In “Darjeeling,” Wilson plays a distraught man — bandaged throughout the film — who other characters imply has attempted suicide.
After being hospitalized, Wilson dropped out of the upcoming movie “Tropic Thunder,” already in production in Hawaii.
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Personals was compiled by Valentina Djeljosevic from Tribune news services and staff reports.
