Clive Owen has confessed the worst part of being an actor is being taken away from his family for months at a time to film on location.

The British actor stars in The Boys Are Back, which was filmed in south Australia, and Clive found it hard being away from his family.

He said: “It is the hardest thing and it something that doesn’t get any easier, it gets harder because the kids are more conscious of time, they understand, they love routine and they love to know where they’re at.” Read the rest of this entry »

He has played all manner of parts, from cad to croupier to bank robber. But Clive Owen’s latest role is far more sobering. He stars as dad Joe Warr who brings up his two children alone when his wife dies in The Boys Are Back.

“The loss of a parent and having to tell the little ones that mum might not be around for much longer I found a devastating idea and a really upsetting thing,” said Owen.

“In some ways it was the hook for me to make the film,” he added.

” As soon as I read those scenes I wanted to find out how this young kid and this father coped and navigated their way through and got their lives back on track.” Read the rest of this entry »

Actor David Henrie has spoken out following claims he is to take on the role of Peter Parker in Marc Webb’s Spider-Man reboot.

Meanwhile, Clive Owen distanced himself from a rumour he is to play villain Kraven in the Marvel comic book adaptation.

He told The Coventry Telegraph: “That’s the first I’ve heard. My girls would like me to do it though.”

Henrie, who stars in Disney’s The Wizards of Waverly Place told OK! magazine: “I am very blessed that the rumour is even going around and I am very happy about it. That would be a dream role for me.

“I think a month ago I saw something pop up on Google Alerts that said, ‘David Henrie Might be the next Spider-Man’ and it’s been spreading around ever since. I am just happy to read it.”

The new Spider-Man, helmed by 500 Days of Summer director Webb, will open in cinemas in 2012.

Source: Digital Spy

I’ve added new event photos of Clive Owen arriving ‘The Boys Are Back’ VIP Screening’ on January 18, 2010.

GALLERY LINK:
- Event In 2010: The Boys Are Back VIP Screening – January 18

Clive Owen thinks actresses should lay off the Botox as they are ruining the film experience for cinema-goers.

Clive Owen has blasted actress who use Botox.

The ‘The Boys Are Back’ star can’t understand why anyone would undergo the process – which involves having a chemical substance injected into the face to smooth wrinkles – as it leaves them unable to express emotion and is distracting for viewers.

He said: “You see these actresses who have had Botox or something else done, and it takes you out of the film.

“It’s a constant reminder that they are actors. And there is just this one face – isn’t that odd?”

Discussing his own beauty regime, 45-year-old Clive admits he only works out if he has to strip on screen.

He explained: “I think it was Stanislavski who said, ‘beware of the actor who looks in the mirror all the time.’

“I don’t do facials or any of that stuff, but my workout regime does tend to depend on whether I have to take my top off in my next film because otherwise I know I’m too heavy.”

He also revealed that he is not comfortable doing sex scenes in films.

Clive added: “It comes back to that whole cliche, there are 50 people in the room and flesh-colored underwear involved, which is deeply, deeply unsexy, so it’s all very technical.”

Source: Earth Times

Hollywood producer Don Simpson once said that every successful film has to have “a pits moment”. For Clive Owen, it’s clear when that moment was in his career. “Signing on, again, in the early Eighties, after two years on the dole in Coventry – that was my pits moment,” he says. “I had spent years dreaming about becoming an actor and nobody had taken me seriously. I’d begun to think that they might be right.”

They weren’t. Today, the 45-year-old Golden Globe and Bafta winner commands more than £3.5 million a film, making him one of the most successful British actors of the past decade. He has won critical acclaim for his roles in small gems such as Stephen Poliakoff’s Close My Eyes and Mike Hodges’ Croupier as well as for arguably less nuanced performances in blockbusters – Children of Men, Sin City and King Arthur – satisfying film buffs and moneymen. Read the rest of this entry »

Clive Owen has attracted thousands of female fans by smouldering his way through films such as Closer, Sin City and Duplicity. Yet behind closed doors, his own girls are keen to see him play a new kind of role.

The 45-year-old star says his daughters Hannah and Eve would like him to drop the moody anti-hero act and do more family-friendly roles.

“They’re very keen for me to do a film to give them bragging rights at school,” he says, chuckling.

“They’re putting me under such pressure, I’m going to have to buckle and do it. They’re going to say, ’You’ve got to do this one, Dad’ and I’ll end up doing it.”

Owen’s latest film, The Boys Are Back, is a step in that direction.

In the drama, based on journalist Simon Carr’s memoirs and shot in Australia, Owen plays Joe Warr, who struggles with being a single parent to his six-year-old son after his wife dies of cancer.

The 45-year-old admits his own experience of fatherhood was “a huge part of wanting to do the film”. Read the rest of this entry »

The ‘The Boys Are Back’ star Clive Owen, who plays a grieving father in his latest role, said he believes people should know him for his acting and not his personality.

He said: “I’m always at my most comfortable when I’m confusing people.

“It’s more important to me that the audience believes in the character than that I’m likeable or charming. I never worry about upsetting people.”

The 45-year-old actor also claimed playing Joe Warr in ‘The Boys Are Back’ is a welcome change for him.

He revealed: “I knew this was going to be completely different from anything I’d done before. For starters, there was the little one, which I knew would bring out something new in me.” Read the rest of this entry »

A last-minute change in Clive Owen’s interview schedule moves my meeting with him forward by half an hour, meaning that I must bolt across town like Road Runner to arrive punctually for the rejigged slot. So I am hardly at my most composed as I tumble into the hotel room where the dapper 45-year-old actor is reclining in an armchair. But let’s not kid ourselves. Which male on the planet, even on a great day, even in the sharpest Ozwald Boateng number, and with the light striking his best side just so, could dream of outclassing the spiffiest man in cinema? This is, let’s not forget, the man who spent 10 years being talked up as the next James Bond, but seems somehow too smart for that slightly fogeyish role.

Owen rises to shake my hand, graciously distracting from my flustered arrival with a bright smile and some well-practised small talk. His unblinking stare can be intimidating on screen — Spike Lee cast him in the 2006 thriller Inside Man because he considered him the only actor capable of going toe-to-toe with co-star Denzel Washington — but in person he is warmth personified. He looks stylish, but relaxed, in a black suit and white shirt, and it strikes me that even his most spontaneous holiday snaps must resemble the covers of the glossier men’s monthlies. I’m reminded of an old David Mamet line: “The guy’s so cool, when he goes to bed, sheep count him.” Read the rest of this entry »

Clive Owen insists he is more than happy to do all the chores at home when his wife is away and considers himself a modern man.

Clive Owen loves housework.

The actor – who portrays widower Joe Warr, who has to raise his two sons alone after his wife dies of cancer, in new movie ‘The Boys Are Back’ – is happy to do the chores when his wife Sarah-Jane Fenton is away from home.

He said: “When I’m left on my own with my daughters I do the washing-up, I do the laundry, everything. I don’t let the place go. I do my bit.”

Clive, 45, has previously admitted he finds it difficult to find the right balance between his work and family life. Read the rest of this entry »