Owen Wilson, Impeccably Permed, Channels Vermont PBS Host Bob Ross In Comedy ‘Paint’ – Specialty Preview
deadline.comOwen Wilson is back, with brushes, as the longtime host of a beloved but fading Burlington, Vermont-based PBS instructional art show.
Paint from IFC Films opens on 800+ screens. Public television is always ripe for parody and happens to be a world Wilson knows.
His father Robert Wilson helped launch, and ran, Dallas PBS station KERA. (He also introduced Monty Python’s Flying Circus to public television.) Paint director Brit McAdams tells Deadline said that his own after-school TV ritual, General Hospital, would often segue into PBS host Bob Ross’ The Joy Of Painting.
Ross is a loose inspiration for Wilson’s character, Carl Nargle, in the look at least, from permed hair, denim-on-denim wardrobe and dulcet tones that impressed McAdams and a global fan base. “I’d be like, ‘Who is this guy?’ And then he’d paint something brown that would turn into a branch, and then a tree, and then a forest, and a landscape.
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