‘The Butterscotch Stallion’

OWEN WILSON looks very skinny, almost frail when he walks through the corridor of Renaissance hotel in Hollywood, surrounded by his retinue of publicists and handlers.

It’s been quite a while since he’s done any interviews, in fact he’s kept himself out of the papers in lots of ways since his suicide attempt in 2007, prior to which he was frequently written up for which starlet he was associated with that week or the night before.

Older, sober and a recent first time father, Wilson (43) seems reflective and introspective today, according to the best definitions of those words. His voice is low and slightly nasally and still carries a lot of Texas in it, along with the southern gentility and good manners that often comes with that distinct accent.