Jenny Peters Fri Oct 5, 1:20 PM ET
Los Angeles - He didn't walk the red carpet, but actor Owen Wilson joined his "The Darjeeling Limited" cohorts at Thursday night's Los Angeles premiere of Wes Anderson's latest film on the stage of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Flanked by Adrien Brody, producer (and co-writer) Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, and Natalie Portman, Wilson is obviously feeling well enough to venture back out into the public eye after his real-life suicide attempt in late August.
Ironically, his depressed character in the quirky new film crashes his motorcycle; so is it a case of life imitating art, or vice versa?
As Wes Anderson commented to reporters earlier, the film is just a movie, nothing more, nothing less. And he hopes audiences will get beyond Wilson's private troubles and just enjoy the picture for what it is.
"I feel people, nobody ever looks at [my movies] in the way that I thought they were going to anyway. So that's fine and I think the movie stands on its own. I love what Owen does in the movie. So that's where I land on that," Anderson said.
And to the suggestion that "The Darjeeling Limited" should have been held back from its planned limited release schedule until next year, when the furor over Wilson's suicide attempt would have quieted, Anderson insisted that that was never a consideration.
"That's not what I wanted, which is why it's not happening like that and that's not what Owen wants. He's very happy that we're releasing it now."
Also happy about the film's premiere were the scads of friends who joined Anderson and his troupe for the screening and after party in the Academy's lobby, including Anjelica Huston, Paul Rudd, Jonah Hill, Fisher Stevens, James Van Der Beek, Talia Shire, Bud Cort, and Kelly Lynch.
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