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What drove Wilson to an act of self-destruction that one friend calls "the most out-of-character thing"? Asked what brought him to this point, another good friend says, "It would be irresponsible to say it was any single thing. People are complicated. Owen is no different." Those close to him know he is far more complex than the über-relaxed dude he has played to perfection in such hit films as Wedding Crashers, Zoolander and Meet the Parents.
An easygoing college dropout who loves to jog with his Australian cattle dog Garcia, flirt with girls at the beach and skateboard around his neighborhood, at times, friends say, he is also a moody loner who has long struggled with what, in a 2005 Playboy interview, Owen called an "Irish strain of depression." Says Platt: "Oh, he has a dark side, definitely." She got a firsthand view of it after initial criticism of Bottle Rocket, which Wilson cowrote with longtime friend Anderson, who also directed the film. Platt noticed that Wilson barely spoke during the editing process, keeping his stress and feelings to himself.
