{"id":29860,"date":"2024-07-06T00:02:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T00:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/clive-owen-says-david-bowie-inspired-him-to-become-an-actor\/"},"modified":"2024-07-06T00:02:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T00:02:24","slug":"clive-owen-says-david-bowie-inspired-him-to-become-an-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/clive-owen-says-david-bowie-inspired-him-to-become-an-actor\/","title":{"rendered":"Clive Owen says David Bowie inspired him to become an actor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-05\/Getty_DavidBowie_070524.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Armando Gallo\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Actor <strong>Clive Owen<\/strong> has revealed that <strong>David Bowie<\/strong> was a huge inspiration for him wanting to become an actor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cBowie probably has more to do with me being an actor than any actors,\u201d Owen told<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\"> <\/span><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/film\/global\/clive-owen-david-bowie-inspiration-creating-worlds-karlovy-vary-1236060985\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Variety<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0at\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHe showed me that you can create worlds,\u201d Clive says. \u201cMy imagination was fired \u2014 that was the beginning of going into acting. It was Bowie that provoked my understanding of the art.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Variety<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> notes that Owen\u00a0said he has no intention of ever trying to play Bowie in a project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While Bowie, who passed away in 2016, is known mostly for music, he did dabble in acting throughout his career. He appeared in such films as 1976\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Man Who Fell To Earth<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, and 1986\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Absolute Beginners<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> and <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Labyrinth<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, as well as <strong>Martin Scorsese<\/strong>\u2019s 1988 film <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Last Temptation of Christ<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, 2006\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Prestige<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armando Gallo\/Getty Images Actor Clive Owen has revealed that David Bowie was a huge inspiration for him wanting to become an actor. \u201cBowie probably has more to do with me being an actor than any actors,\u201d Owen told Variety\u00a0at\u00a0the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic.\u00a0 \u201cHe showed<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/clive-owen-says-david-bowie-inspired-him-to-become-an-actor\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}