Owen Wilson Returns Home

Tue., Sep. 4, 2007 7:25 AM PDT by Gina Serpe

Just one week after being admitted to the hospital following an apparent suicide attempt, Owen Wilson is back home and "doing very well," according to friends.

While the actor has canceled all immediate public appearances, including what was expected to be a high-profile screening of The Darjeeling Limited at the Venice Film Festival this week, his director on the project, Wes Anderson, did show up to the festival and spoke publicly about his collaborator and longtime friend—the two were college roommates—for the first time since Wilson's hospitalization.

"We all miss having him here very much. Obviously, he has been through a lot this week," Anderson told reporters on the Lido Monday. "I can tell you he has been doing very well—he has been making us laugh.

"When he's ready, he's going to speak for himself much better than any of us could. He has a very good way with words."

In the film, about three brothers' train journey across India to strengthen their fraternal bond, Wilson stars alongside Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman, with Anderson repertory players Anjelica Huston and Bill Murray also appearing. Eerily enough, the 38-year-old is bandaged for the duration of the film, as it's implied prior to the start of their trip that his character attempted suicide.

Brody also spoke out about his costar at the film's news conference, saying that working with Wilson was "a brotherly thing."

"Owen has a tremendous sense of humor, and he's very mischievous," Brody said.

While Wilson didn't make it to Venice this week, he did make it home, getting released from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after a one-week stay.

The actor has already been spotted back at his Santa Monica home, with the paparazzi snapping photos of him and his Australian cattle dog Garcia getting a chauffeured, police-escorted lift to his brother Luke's house Monday night for a dinner with family.

The comedy star is poised to take a break from returning to the daily grind, having disassociated himself from Tropic Thunder, a big-screen comedy currently filming in Hawaii, directed by longtime buddy Ben Stiller.