You know Owen Wilson. He says "wow." But how did his nose get like that? Well,
it's the result of him saying "ow" many years ago. Here's what happened.
Wilson has been acting with the same famous crew of comedians for decades, including Ben Stiller,
who's a close friend. They've been given the apt nickname, the "Frat Pack." Of course,
Wilson's brother, Luke Wilson, is also a familiar face in this group
of tightly linked actors. Owen has another famous Hollywood link that predates fame.
He was roommates with Wes Anderson while they were both students at the University
of Texas at Austin. No wonder Owen has appeared in so many of Anderson's movies!
While Owen might have a signature catchphrase,
"Wow"
He also has a distinct facial feature that sets him apart from the rest of the "Frat
Pack," especially his brother, Luke. So, what's the deal with Owen's nose?
Owen Wilson broke his nose twice. Since it's pretty obvious when you look at him,
Wilson had to address this story when he sat down with Wired in February 2022 to answer
the web's most searched questions about him. He said one of the breaks happened:
"At University of Texas, yeah. Playing, uh,
we were doing intramural flag football and I got banged."
Wilson addressed his broken nose with the Los Angeles Times in December 2001, too,
and said people felt comfortable speaking frankly to him about it.
Quoting what he sometimes hears from others, he said,
"You look kind of odd, disfigured."
Not exactly the nicest feedback to get! However, Wilson isn't terribly worried about it. He added,
"You know, probably my nose wouldn't have been that great even if it hadn't been broken."
But besides these few explanations, Wilson rarely discusses his nose in
interviews despite it being one of the top questions about him
on Google. Maybe he's just sick of it being his defining feature.
Whoever said Owen Wilson looks disfigured is on their own. The dude has his own
entry in Urban Dictionary for being dubbed the "Butterscotch Stallion" because of his flowing,
blond hair and supposed romantic prowess. The term gained so much
traction that Entertainment Weekly published a piece in 2006 with the legitimate question:
"Is it OK to call Owen Wilson 'the Butterscotch Stallion?'"
While he's never been married, Wilson has dated a slew of stunning,
A-list women including Demi Moore, Sheryl Crow, and Kate Hudson, per The U.S. Sun.
Wilson's also a father to three children from three different relationships. He has a son,
Robert Ford Wilson, whom he shares with ex-partner Jade Duell. He also has a son,
Finn Lindqvist Wilson, with fitness instructor Caroline Lindqvist. Wilson also has a daughter,
Lyla Aranya Wilson, with ex Varunie Vongsvirates, who claimed to the Daily Mail that Wilson wasn't
showing up as a dad. When Lyla was 1 year old, Vongsvirates told the outlet,
"Owen has never met Lyla. Never. He helps financially but it's never been about that."
Owen Wilson usually rocks his signature shaggy golden mane in his movies, whether he's playing
Hansel the ridiculously good looking model in "Zoolander" or bonding with his cute canine twin,
an endearing yellow Labrador retriever, in "Marley & Me." But when he was cast as
TVA agent Mobius M. Mobius in the Disney+ series "Loki " Wilson underwent a dramatic
makeover. His new look consisted of short, gray hair and a mustache. Wilson told Uproxx,
"It was nice on this to have sort of a different look and
I think that sort of made it easier to sort of slip into Mobius's shoes,
so to speak. [...] It's grizzled. And that's what this role called for."
In his excitement over his appearance change, Wilson forgot an important rule of joining the
MCU: divulging even the smallest of spoilers during interviews is forbidden. So when he
mentioned that his "Loki" character would be sporting a 'stache before fans laid eyes on the
facial hair, Marvel tried to strike the fear of Odin in the actor. In an interview with Esquire,
Wilson mentioned an "ominious text" he received that simply read, "Strike one."
"I don't know who that was from. We looked into it,
and we think it might have been Kevin Feige using a burner phone or something."
Luckily, he never reached enough strikes to find out what happens when an MCU star strikes out.