'I've always been a great believer that almost anybody on this planet can sit in the back of a pub, quietly in the corner, have a few drinks and walk out pretty much unbothered,' said Clive Owen
After 20 years in the business, Clive Owen admits that he still experiences spine-tingling moments.
Surprisingly, they are not from sharing film scenes with legends such as Robert De Niro (who inspired him to become an actor) or Angelina Jolie (one of a litany of leading ladies with whom he’s starred) – they are from meeting footballers.
The self-confessed Liverpool fanatic recently crossed paths with Thierry Henry on a street in Manhattan, where the French striker is based while playing for New York Red Bulls.
‘I literally bumped into him,’ says Owen. ‘I had never met him before and we discovered we were staying on the same street. We went out to dinner a few times and hung out.’
Clive with Gillian Anderson in Shadow Dancer. A tense drama set in Northern Ireland during the early Nineties, the film is based on a novel and screenplay by ITN's political editor Tom Bradby
Indeed, his list of leading ladies reads like a Who’s Who. But when asked about his ‘pinch me’ moments, he admits, ‘I never think of meeting actors. I think of the times I’ve met footballers.’
Scratch the surface, and the 47-year-old from Coventry is a man of contradictions: a quintessentially cool style icon with a boyish love of sport; a Hollywood leading man who lives a quiet life in London with his family; an intensely private person, who at 6ft 2in with chiselled good looks, attracts attention wherever he goes.
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