No CommentsBen Stiller felt terrible for his good friend Owen Wilson after The Wedding Crashers star reportedly attempted suicide last year.
“I love Owen, and I felt bad that he had to deal with all the outside bulls**t. It’s impossible to understand that kind of pain—depression, or anything like that—until you’re in it,” Stiller says in the August issue of Playboy magazine.
Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson have been pals since they shared the screen in the 1996 film Cable Guy.
Stiller admits he didn’t always think the blond actor was all that funny.
When Wilson auditioned for Cable Guy, Stiller said, “He didn’t push. I didn’t think he nailed the audition…Then I went to see Owen’s first movie, Bottle Rocket, and I laughed literally from the minute he came on-screen until the end of the movie.”
When asked if the Zoolander star felt it was harder to deal with depression in the public eye, he told the magazine, “It’s completely unnatural for people to lead public lives. It has gotten kind of crazy.”
Although, Stiller speculated, “People would rather dwell on somebody else’s problems than look at their own. Or they’d rather look at somebody else’s problems than at what the rest of humanity is going through.”
But as for the stigma that all comedians having a dark, despairing side, Stiller says that’s just not true.
“I’m not Mister Funny Guy all the time. I have my moods. I can be ridiculous. Everybody’s a different person with different people.”
The two pals are currently filming the movie, Night at the Museum 2.
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