The Gang
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| Name: Dignan
Played by: Owen C. Wilson
Characteristics:
Instinctive
Short attention span
Enthusiastic
High-strung
Easily excited
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"And my name's Dignan, man. So what?"
"Dignan is kind of like a little kid,"
Wilson explains. "I don't think he does a lot of soul-searching
or is very introspective. He is an instinctive person and constanly
reacts to things. He is like a 12-year-old; his attention span
isn't very long, so he can become sidetracked or diverted very
easily. He is very tightly wound and gets tremendously enthusiastic
about an idea. He likes to have everybody marching along towards
this goal he's set."
It is Dignan's idea to pursue a life of crime ... or, at least,
one of petty theft. According to Owen Wilson, however, Dignan's
true objective may not be the actual felony. "I don't think
he necessarily thinks of himself as a criminal," says Wilson.
"He likes to consider himself a leader and forming this
band of thieves lets him do that. Of course, he really isn't
the leader. His best friend Anthony is the more conscious of
the two. He allows Dignan to be the leader out of his generosity
of spirit because it's so important to Dignan. Also, I think
Anthony respects Dignan's energy and enthusiasm and gets kind
of caught up in it."
Credit: Bottle Rocket Press
Kit
About Owen
Wilson...
Nominated "Stoner of the
Year" by High Times magazine, self-proclaimed troublemaker
Owen Wilson grew up in Texas with his mother, Laura, a
photographer; his father, an ad exec; and his brothers, Andrew
Wilson (the eldest) and Luke (the youngest). Expelled from St.
Mark's Academy in Dallas Texas in the tenth grade, Wilson finished
his sophomore year at Thomas Jefferson School and then headed to a
military academy in New Mexico. He then attended the University of
Texas at Austin, where he met his future mentor and friend, Wes
Anderson. Anderson and Wilson wrote a screenplay - Bottle Rocket
(1994) and sent it to their family friend screenwriter Kit Carson,
who sent it to producer Polly Platt, who gave it to James L.
Brooks, who gave the Texans $5 million dollars to make it into a
feature film. Despite critical praise, 'Rocket' only grossed one
million dollars. After making the film, Wilson moved to Hollywood,
setting up house with his two brothers and Anderson. Fairly
quickly, Owen found himself acting in a series of big budget films
that scraped the bottom of the critical barrel, such as The Cable
Guy (1996), The Haunting (1999), Anaconda (1997) and Breakfast of
Champions (1999). This led to more work in Shanghai Noon (2000),
Meet the Parents (2000) and Behind Enemy Lines (2001). He's known
not only for his nose, which has been broken several times, but
also for his 'free wheeling ways' with a script. Recently he
cowrote the film The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), with his oft partner
Wes Anderson.
Credit: Wilson-Brothers.com.
Owen Wilson's Filmography
Bottle Rocket (1996)(as Owen C. Wilson) - Dignan
Bottle Rocket (1994) - Dignan
Credit:
The
Internet Movie Database
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Bottle Rocket DVD
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