When Owen wanted to join army

The actor says his first movie Bottle Rocket nearly caused him to leave Hollywood and join the army.

Actor Owen Wilson says his first movie, the critically acclaimed Bottle Rocket, nearly caused him to leave Hollywood and join the army.

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He 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," he said.