Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

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Owen Wilson Turns to Cartoons for Inspiration

Originally posted 05/15/2009 09:20AM

Hamlet? Richard III? A Streetcar Named Desire's Stanley Kowalski? Just who did inspire Owen Wilson when it came time to reprise his role as the cowboy Jedediah in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian?

"I watched a lot of Yosemite Sam," the actor, 40, told PEOPLE at Thursday's premiere of the movie at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. And the best part of playing a miniature cowboy was "knowing you were never going to hear from the director, 'Owen, that was too much!' It's like the guy's over the top. So, however kind of loud and Yosemite Sam-like you can be, it's going to be good."

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