Last updated: Wednesday, June 21, 2006

WILSON LOOKED INTO JOINING THE MARINES AFTER FILM FAILURE

Hollywood actor OWEN WILSON almost joined the US Marines when his debut movie received the worst test audience rating in the history of studio Columbia Pictures.

OWEN WILSON

BOTTLE ROCKET, directed by Wilson's friend and future THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS film-maker WES ANDERSON, didn't impress viewers at early screenings in 1996.

So Wilson decided to research a career in the military.

Wilson tells American magazine Maxim, "The studio said Bottle Rocket was their worst-testing movie in history, so I looked into the marines.

"Maybe I was influenced by AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN. Or those marine commercials - they were so cool! Like a LED ZEPPELIN song come to life, full of people pulling swords from rocks and fighting lava monsters."

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