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CBC
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- CBC
Owen Wilson has played a cowboy, a male model and more — but he wasn't sure he could play a pro golfer
When you see Owen Wilson on screen, you can't help but root for his character, whether that's a misfit, a cowboy, a robber or a male model. Across his career, Wilson has become known for playing characters who ooze with heart and charm. In an interview with Q guest host Gill Deacon, he says that's something he can't seem to get away from. "It's funny that the other week, my son was asking me, 'Dad, have you ever played a bad guy?' And I was thinking, and I said, 'Well, yeah, I played a serial killer one time … but he was kind of a nice serial killer.'" In his latest role on the new sports comedy series Stick, Wilson plays Pryce Cahill, an ex-pro golfer with a devastating past who ends up coaching a troubled teen prodigy. At first, Wilson wasn't sure he could play a pro golfer because he had more experience playing sports like soccer and football when he was growing up. "The big thing was that I had always been intimidated by golf because my dad was a very good golfer," he says. "So that was kind of the initial hurdle for me. It's funny because I've worked on lots of things where I didn't know how to do whatever I was supposed to be acting in. There was a movie where I was a saxophone player. Well, you know I didn't play the saxophone and I didn't feel like that was a problem. But for some reason with golf, the idea of playing a golf pro … that seemed like I couldn't do it." WATCH | Official trailer for Stick: Slowly but surely, Wilson says he was able to make progress by practicing on the golf course his dad used to play on in Dallas. He adds that his close relationship with his two brothers, Luke and Andrew Wilson, is an important family dynamic that also tends to seep into his work. In some ways, his experience growing up as one of three boys was great homework for his future roles in buddy comedies, like Starsky & Hutch and Wedding Crashers. "I'm just very familiar, I feel like, from growing up with brothers on the ways that you can sort of dig at other people … and say the things that drive them crazy, but also know the ways that are going to make them feel good," Wilson says. "A lot of that stuff is funny and so I think that I've drawn on that a lot just because I'm so comfortable in that dynamic." The full interview with Owen Wilson is available on our podcast, Q with Tom Power. He also shares what he learned from some of his earliest mentors and role models, including his dad and legendary film producer James L. Brooks. Listen and follow wherever you get your podcasts.
The Review Geek
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Review Geek
Stick Episode 5 Preview: Release Date, Time & Where To Watch
Stick Stick is a sports comedy created by Jason Keller and starring and executive produced by Owen Wilson. Wilson himself stars as an ex-pro golfer called Pryce Cahill whose career was derailed prematurely 20 years ago thanks to a Happy Gilmore-sized meltdown on the golf course. After the collapse of his marriage, Pryce hedges his bets (and future) entirely on a troubled 17-year-old golf phenom named Santi. This feel-good story centers around family and ambition, all of which set within the world of golf.. If you've been following this one over the weeks, you may be curious to find out when the next episode is releasing. Well, wonder no more! Here is everything you need to know about Stick episode 5, including its release date, time and where you can watch this. Where Can I Watch Stick? Stick is available to stream on Apple TV+. This is an exclusive original series, meaning this is the only place you're going to be able to watch this show. Stick Episode 5 Release Date Stick Episode 5 will release on Wednesday 18th June at approximately 12am (ET)/(PT) and 5am (GMT). Of course, it's really dependent on how quickly Apple upload new episodes. Expect this to be pretty close to the release time though. Stick is also available with subtitles from its release, with the chapters scheduled to clock in at around 41 minutes long. How Many Episodes Will Stick Season 1 Have? Season 1 of Stick is scheduled for 10 episodes, so we've got 5 more episodes to go after this one. Expect the story to continue developing as we dive deeper into both Pryce and Santi's drama on and off the golf course! Is There A Trailer For Stick? There is indeed! You can find a trailer for Stick below: What do you hope to see as the series progresses? What's been your favourite moment of Stick so far? Let us know in the comments below!
Indianapolis Star
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Indianapolis Star
The new Apple TV+ comedy series 'Stick' is set in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Here's what to know
After the success of "Ted Lasso," Apple TV+ is at it again with a new sport-centered heartfelt comedy series. "Stick" is about a washed up professional golfer who now works at sporting goods store in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Here's what to know about the show and its ties to Indiana. The show is set in Fort Wayne, Indiana. That is where former professional golfer Pryce Cahill (Owen Wilson) selling clubs at a sporting goods store. Cahill spots a teenage golfer, Santiago "Santi" Wheeler (Peter Dager) at the driving range and decides he wants to coach him to the big leagues. The show takes place in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and the teenage prodigy in the show, Santi Wheeler (Peter Dager) wears a visor with Indiana University's logo on it. Previously: How Nick Offerman responded to a homophobic meme of his 'Parks and Rec' character
Yahoo
05-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Stick' Star Owen Wilson And Creator Jason Keller On Show's Exploration Of Mentorship And Found Family: 'There Isn't A Foolproof Guidebook To Bring Out The Best In Someone'
Stick Owen Wilson's latest project, the Apple TV+ series Stick, watches the actor take on a plucky underdog of sorts — Pryce Cahill — a former professional golfer whose divorce is about to be finalized in the sale of the house he once shared with his ex wife Amber-Linn (Judy Greer). More from Deadline Owen Wilson Bets Big On Peter Dager's Santi In Apple TV+'s 'Stick' Trailer 'Stick' Release Guide: When Do New Episodes Come Out? 'Stick' Soundtrack: All The Songs You'll Hear In The Apple TV+ Golf Series Now working as a golf club salesman, it's obvious from the pitch he makes in the opening moments of the series that he still loves the sport of golf. It's this 'positive' energy and that allows Pryce, who stumbles upon golf phenom Santiago Wheeler (Peter Dager) to convince the teenager to take his talents on the road and compete to become a pro golfer. A surrogate father and son relationship develops between the pair, but not without its bumps in the road as Santi sometimes takes big swings without heed for some of Pryce's advice. 'You don't know the right way to do it. You have somebody like Joe DiMaggio, I think the first time his dad ever saw him play baseball, he was already a center fielder for the Yankees. His dad was a fisherman. No interest,' Wilson said. 'Then you have Tiger Woods. Tiger Woods is not Tiger Woods without his dad putting a club in his hand at age two. So what's the right way to do it? Is it to stand back and let somebody do it on their own? There isn't a set way, and there isn't a foolproof guidebook to how to bring out the best in someone.' Also along for the ride are Santi's mother Elena (Mariana Treviño) and his former golf caddy and good friend Mitts (Marc Maron), who supplies the RV they travel in as well as the occasional dose of wisdom — golf and otherwise. On the road, they meet Lilli Kay's Zero, who rounds out the ensemble, but who also challenges the dynamic that has begun to form between mentor and mentee. 'How much input do you give? When do you hold back? That's what we see in the show,' creator Jason Keller told Deadline. 'We see these individuals, these strangers to one another, start to better understand how to be a family. And with that comes all of these awkward dynamics.' In the below interview, Wilson and Keller talk what the show's first three episodes — now streaming on Apple TV+ — tee up for the rest of the series, how the characters balance past and present and what keeps them in Pryce Cahill's orbit. DEADLINE: WILSON: It might sound superficial, but just the name Pryce Cahill is a routable name. But, of course, the guy has a quality that is nice when you come across it, even in real life, of somebody who is beaten, but still out there selling and trying to believe. I guess that means you haven't given up if you're doing that. That's always nice to be around that kind of energy. JASON KELLER: Pryce is aspirational. He's positive, always a positive thinker, and in that way, he's identifiable to all of us. We're all sort of broken in places, and hopefully we can have an outlook towards life like Pryce Cahill, does. I would hope that we could. WILSON: That's interesting, though, the idea of being broken, and the different ways people respond, because, of course, [Marc Maron's character] Mitts has responded in one way, and Pryce goes a different way. I don't know which is better. I know, in this age of therapy, they say, 'Oh, you have to face things.' But then there is something to be said for ignoring and compartmentalizing. I've joked about this, that, my friend was saying, 'You'll see those kind of medicines that'll say the side effects [of] 'do not operate heavy machinery' right? 'Alcohol may intensify this effect.' But one that my friend had seen that says 'Can create a false sense of well-being.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, what's the problem with that?' Like, you could say everything's a false sense of well being. So if that's the case, I think Pryce is still taking a swing and back to [the] original thing. Who's to say you do have to face stuff? But of course, the journey of the show… KELLER: It makes for better story. WILSON: [Laughs]. DL: OWEN: Yeah, I think you can do it until all of a sudden you can't do it anymore. And something just sort of makes you face it. And that's, of course, what happens in this. KELLER: I think whether we allow ourselves to admit it or not, we're all shaped by our pasts. And you can either face your past or ignore it. Either way it's shaping your present and the way you look, you know, at your future. Both of them have this turbulent past and loss and grief and frustration, and it's affecting their present day, and they happen to come together at a point when they, you know, can sort of help each other, kind of move into the next chapter of their lives. WILSON: I've been watching this Dale Earnhardt documentary, and he had a very complicated relationship with his father, who was a great racer, and didn't really encourage him, never gave him that much support, and obviously it's really driven him. But also, this guy's makeup, he's not somebody who's going to wallow, and you're not going to see him — there's different ways to — hi shaped by it, but the way he's reacting isn't in this sort of new agey, like, 'My gosh, it was [so] painful.' KELLER: I think when these certain sports, or maybe it's all sports, but certainly golf, auto racing feels that way — you can't really get stuck in the past. WILSON: You've gotta compartmentalize. KELLER: So, I mean, the elite athletes, I mean, I'm sure they do it in their personal life, in the same way they do it on a golf course. WILSON: And if it's such a bad thing, why are humans so good at it? DL: WILSON: For me, that's the challenge in real life, that we're social animals, and we want to connect with people and, but why is it so hard? Well, we put up walls, and there's, how to reach people? And sometime between men. I want Santi to be great and feel I have a path for him that he can follow to greatness, but he doesn't necessarily want to hear it or hear it in the way that I'm going to tell it to him. That's a big part of being a parent, too. That's a big part of, with friends, you can see somebody make a mistake, and you sometimes just can't reach people. That's just what makes this relationship complicated and interesting, and why I responded to it when Jason first showed me the scripts and talked about the story, because I can really relate to that, wanting to connect, wanting to help someone. But how do you do it? KELLER: We always, in this show, were drawing, all of us, Owen, the actors, the writers who wrote this first season, we were always drawing on our personal experiences, on the turbulence we have with friendships or marriages, or any kind of relationship. We were all wanting to infuse this show with our own personal experiences, and Owen's right. This is the difficult thing about being a parent. It's the difficult thing about being a partner to somebody, it's difficult thing about being a friend to somebody is just wanting to connect and be honest and hope for the best for that person. { pmcCnx({ settings: { plugins: { pmcAtlasMG: { iabPlcmt: 1, }, pmcCnx: { singleAutoPlay: 'auto' } } }, playerId: "32fe25c4-79aa-406a-af44-69b41e969e71", mediaId: "186d05f6-11bf-423b-9d0a-41886bd7f91d", }).render("connatix_player_186d05f6-11bf-423b-9d0a-41886bd7f91d_1"); }); Best of Deadline 'Stick' Soundtrack: All The Songs You'll Hear In The Apple TV+ Golf Series 'Nine Perfect Strangers' Season 2 Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Come Out? 'Stick' Release Guide: When Do New Episodes Come Out?
Daily Mail
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Unless you're a golfer, Owen Wilson's new comedy Stick doesn't make the cut, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
Stick (Apple TV+) The gods of television are cruel. No sooner do I confess my loathing for golf than they send a ten-part comedy series about the game. Of course I'm big-headed enough to believe they read this telly column on Mount Olympus. But it's more likely, I suppose, that Apple executives are eager for a sports serial to emulate the surprise success of their feelgood show Ted Lasso, about an American football manager who revives a struggling Premier League club. Problem is, you can enjoy Ted Lasso even if you care nothing about football. Stick, which stars Owen Wilson as a washed-up former professional golfer who discovers a troubled teenage protege, is relentlessly, monotonously fixated with the business of hitting a small round object with a long pole. If you're hypnotised by CGI shots tracking a white ball in flight over trees and lakes, you'll enjoy this a lot. If you possess an endless capacity for studying a man shuffling his feet and swinging a club in an arc, this is definitely the show for you. And if you thrill with paroxysms of excitement because a first drive soars onto the green, you may need to keep smelling salts to hand. The opening scene introduces Wilson as Pryce Cahill, a one-time Ryder Cup player now reduced to working as a salesman in a golfing supplies shop. He's selling a top-of-the-range club to a clueless customer. Then he's at his other job, coaching elderly ladies on their putting technique at the local club in Indiana, USA. (Don't ask me why the state is still called Indiana and not Native Americana — political correctness obviously hasn't arrived there yet.) That evening, Pryce is sinking beers in a bar, when a fellow customer starts mocking his fall from the golfing heights. The confrontation ends in a $1,000 bet on a putting contest. How much tension can be packed into the build-up to a golf putt across the carpet of a bar-room, with a whisky glass on its side as the target? Not very much, it turns out — and I cared even less when Pryce missed the shot on purpose, as part of a scam. His fellow con artist is played by Marc Maron, who was brilliant in the Netflix series Glow, yet another sports comedy — this one about female wrestlers. Maron is always watchable, but his character in Stick doesn't make much sense: he's Pryce's former caddy, a morose and monosyllabic man who somehow possesses the ability to switch on a torrent of wiseacre patter. The protege, Santi (Peter Dager), is equally unconvincing — one minute hard-working, wise and empathetic, the next a sulky teen who can't take his eyes off his phone. Stick does offer more than this. There's a romantic backstory, and Wilson is charismatic enough to make us want to see his booze-swilling, dope-smoking, self-sabotaging character find redemption. But before that happens, you're going to have to watch an awful lot of golf.
