Owen proves the doubters wrong

Clive Owen doubted he could ever be an actor.

The ‘The Boys are Back’ star admitted that he had a “pits moment” in the 80s where he couldn’t get a break.

He said: “Signing on, again, the early 80s, after two years on the dole in Coventry – that was my pits moment.

“I had spent years dreaming about becoming an actor and nobody had taken me seriously. I’d begun to think that they might be right.”

However, his career peaked years later when he was offered a role in ‘Closer’.

The 45-year-old Golden Globe winner said: “The best moment of my professional life was walking out of a restaurant having had lunch with Mike Nichols, who had just cast me in the film version of ‘Closer’.

“I’d done the play seven years before and loved it, so I literally floated out of there thinking that somebody, somewhere, was looking out for me.”

Discussing his new film ‘The Boys are Back’, where he plays a recently widowed father who must look after his two sons, Clive claimed he found the script “terribly moving”.

He told the Telegraph: “I knew a few pages into the script that I wanted to do the film. As a parent I found it so terribly moving.”