Clive Owen is forever!!
Clive covers one of the multiple covers of GQ’s Age Issue (the October issue). Clive is having a little bit of a career resurgance lately because of his role in The Knick, a Cinemax series by Steven Soderbergh. Clive is also representin’ the 50-something dudes – he turns 50 next week. I’m sort of shocked that Brad Pitt is older than Clive Owen. Isn’t that weird? Anyway, you can read Clive’s GQ interview here. It’s a good piece if you already like Clive and want to hear his thoughts on acting, David Bowie, fatherhood, balance, etc. He’s not really into soundbytes or being “cool” but he’s interesting, measured and intelligent.
His best health advice: “The best thing I did for myself was give up smoking, when my first daughter was born.”
If he’s ambitious: “I’m trying to think if I really am ambitious. It’s funny, when I was younger, it was something I didn’t like seeing in other people—naked ambition, when somebody is really pushing hard to get to where they want to be. I don’t know why. I was always… I’m competitive with myself, but I’ve always thought of ambition like, ‘I’ve got to get them. F–k!’ But it might not be that. You can look at it… That’s the way I look at that word: if you’re stepping on anything to get there.”
Whether love changes with age: “If anything, it probably gets stronger, especially with kids. [The sex] gets better as well.”
What happens to us after we die? Nothing. I think we’re struggling to make sense of something that never really does make sense, is my theory. Anything post–this life is a desperate attempt to make sense of something that doesn’t really make sense. Life is scarily random, and that’s what I believe. I believe we shape all these things to make us feel a bit better about it. I don’t shape anything. I think when it ends, it ends. When I think about it, I think the reverberations of us as people carry on through other people.
Aw, I like what he says about love and sex getting better with age. His wife is really GD lucky. I mean, I’m sure Clive feels like the lucky one, but that she just proves how lucky SHE is. What kind of sorcery is she wielding? WITCHCRAFT!! As for Clive’s existentialism… I think it is what it is. He’s not trying to convince anyone of his point of view, he’s not proselytizing or anything. I didn’t realize he was such an existential dude though. If anything, it makes him hotter (to me).
Photos courtesy of Sebastian Kim/GQ and Fame/flynet.
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