Owen Wilson co-wrote the offbeat comedies "Rushmore" and "The Royal Tennebaums", but he's best known for starring roles in "Behind Enemy Lines", "Shanghai Noon", and "Zoolander". Now he embarks on an even more perilous venture; a film with Eddie Murphy...
You get to spoof our beloved 007...
Yeah. I get to poke fun at James Bond a little bit. I grew up with James Bond and Inspector Clouseau. They are the two opposite ends of the spectrum and this film is kind of somewhere in between. There's action and a lot of comedy. The action is sort of an excuse to get to the funny stuff.
Eddie Murphy says the key to the film is the chemistry between your characters. How did you work together?
Our characters are really different. I found we were simpatico, humour-wise. So when we were sitting around on the set we had the same kind of humour, the same kind of approach to the comedy. The difference between the two guys, I guess, is that Eddie's character is more flamboyant. My guy is more of an everyman spy, an ordinary guy who's a spy, and the two characters complement and play well off each other.
There are some fun gadgets in the film. What's your favourite?
The gadgets are great. We have these contact lenses - if I put one in my eye, and one in your eye, then you can see what I see. It leads to a really funny scene where Eddie's character is helping me with a girl I have a crush on. I think that's the funniest scene in the movie.
