How we’ve missed the laidback, shaggy-dog charms of Owen Wilson. The now 56-year-old star of Wedding Crashers, Marley & Me and Zoolander has scored a comedy hole-in-one with new Apple TV+ golf dramedy Stick – a show that brims with an easygoing joie de vivre fuelled almost entirely by Wilson’s zen energy.
Those free and easy vibes have long been Wilson’s unique selling point. Nobody would ever mistake the Dallas-born actor for the second coming of Daniel Day-Lewis or Robert De Niro. Within comedy, there are much funnier actors – you’ll never fracture a rib cracking up to Wilson. But what he brings is so much more valuable – a one-person anxiety-relief system, he makes the world feel so much less stressful when on screen.
