Luke Wilson Dishes On 'Super Ex'
Have you ever had an ex that just wouldn't go away? What if they had super powers to make your life totally and completely miserable?
That's the problem facing Luke Wilson in the comedy "My Super Ex-Girlfriend," also starring Uma Thurman.
In the film, Wilson's character meets his girlfriend on the subway. After a friend gets him to engage her in conversation, they eventually start going out after a rocky beginning. But Thurman's character has a big secret she lays on her boyfriend.
"It's kind of one of those 'Be careful what you wish for kind of things,' where she seems like this beautiful, intelligent woman, which she is," Wilson explains. "And then as she and I start to go out, I find out that she's kind of like the female superman for New York. And I'd had a crush on that person — you know, on her character, G-Girl. And I find out that she's G-Girl, and I couldn't be more excited. But then, gradually, the woman's character in a relationship is kind of very needy and controlling, and the kind of — she turns up at work and things like that. Doesn't want me to have any female friends."
In the film, Wilson plays just a nice, average Joe. Once he breaks up with her, it turns into every guy's worst nightmare: an ex with super powers.
"I think so. I've always just been lucky enough that they've not really liked me. They haven't really wanted to kill me, my exes. I think. Every guy's probably worst nightmare," Wilson tells The Early Show co-anchor Hannah Storm.
Wilson admits the role tested his acting chops, playing a guy who is trying to break up with gorgeous Uma Thurman.
"I'd always laugh because we'd be shooting in the city and I'd talk to people on the street. And they'd ask what the theme was. And a guy from New York said, 'Wait a second. You leave Uma Thurman. No offense, but I don't see a guy like you leaving Uma Thurman,' " Wilson recalls. "And I said, 'Well, it's a comedy. You're going to have to make a few leaps of imagination.' "
In real life, Wilson says he is on good terms with pretty much all of them, especially Drew Barrymore.
"Drew and I, I don't know. I think maybe because we started out as such good friends, but, yeah, she put me on, hired me for a couple of her movies," Wilson says. "We tend to laugh a lot together and just kind of keep in touch. She's such a great person, as everybody can tell."
Recently, Wilson's brother, Owen, also stopped by The Early Show to talk about his new movie, "You, Me and Dupree." During the interview, he was discussing Luke, because his movie is about an unwanted house guest. It turns out Luke lived with his brother, though he had his own house down the road.
"For over a decade I lived with him, and it even got as far as he wanted me out, and I said, 'I've got a house. I'm just working on it. I had a friend living there.' You know, he would go on location all the time. So I'd get up and say, 'OK, I've got two months now to just kind of relax without him around.' But I did overstay my welcome by probably six or seven years," Wilson jokes. "I don't know why I didn't want to leave. It's not as if he was a great host or some great house. I think it was kind of just more convenience. And then, yeah, since — it was a messy house. Your typical messy Hollywood divorce. But I've moved on from Owen."
Asked if he and his brother have a little rivalry, with movies coming out about the same time, Wilson says, "I want the best for Owen's movie but, of course, I'm more loyal to my own film."
One of his future projects includes the movie-remake of the soap opera drama "Dallas."
"I'm going to play Bobby Ewing. We're going to start that in the fall," Wilson says.
It'll give him a chance to use his Texas accent, as he is a Dallas native. "I've started to realize, well I've never really played a character without my own accent. Finally, I get one where I won't have to change it. I can even kind of be a consultant on the set."
"You know, maybe I might help Travolta make it a little more of a drawl, but I'm hoping to kind of parlay it into some extra … extra paycheck possibly as a consultant."