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Owen Wilson Goes Through His Signature Hair Styles For Roles

Author Laila Abuelhawa
Owen Wilson attends the "The French Dispatch" screening during the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images for Kering)

Owen Wilson’s hair has just landed its biggest role yet — being the newest face for hair and body care brand California Naturals. The Starsky & Hutch actor, 55, is the brand’s new “Chief Shampoo Officer.” Wilson is also an investor and advisor for the company. The company’s products are paraben and sulfate-free. Parabens are commonly used as preservatives per the FDA. There is limited evidence that parabens threaten human health. According to the National Library of Public Medicine, recent studies have shown that parabens can interfere with the normal function of hormones, cause skin irritation, and negatively impact fertility and reproductive organs.

As for sulfates, they can damage certain types of hair and may cause skin irritation in some people. Sulfate-free shampoo is recommended by the American Academy of Dermatology for people with rosacea because the ingredient is found to irritate skin with rosacea. Others suffering from skin conditions like eczema, contact dermatitis, or sensitive skin should also avoid sulfates for the same irritation. Dry and fine hair should also avoid sulfates, as the sudsy effects of sulfate shampoo can strip out too much of the natural oils needed to keep your strands healthy. Additionally, sulfates are known to cause hair frizz.

We’re Hair For It

With Wilson’s iconic shaggy blonde hair always looking fabulous, his starring as the hair care company’s “Chief Shampoo Officer” is a perfect fit. Wilson tells People that his hair’s “dream role” would be in Broadway’s Hair.  However, he and his hair don’t always see “eye to eye on our career.” Of 2005’s Wedding Crashers, but his hair was “really holding out to do a remake of Shampoo.” Meanwhile, Wilson said the wig he wore in 2023’s Paint was a work of art, but he doesn’t think anyone will go “racing to the salon asking for a perm to recreate it.” However, there was one iconic role Wilson says his hair out-shined his performance —  2001’s Zoolander. The actor said those sexy, blonde, shoulder-length waves were a “career hair high.”

Though Wilson is still a natural blonde (we think), he said going gray via a wig for Loki was an experience, and one that he’s sure he’ll live out in “real life” at some point. When he’s not filming, Wilson is low-maintenance and prefers to air-dry his hair. For an event, he tells the stylist to closely resemble his “normal day” hair. Watch Wilson’s funny and adorable commercial for California Naturals below.

@californianaturals

Get ready, with Owen! Our new team member, and official Chief Shampoo Officer. Together with his advisor Waffles, he’s here to make sure mops everywhere are clean, coiffed and looking good. 🧼😊 #owenwilson

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Ben Stiller's 6 Funniest Movies Ranked

Ben Stiller was born on November 30, 1965, in New York City to comedians and actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. His parents frequently took him on the sets of their appearances, including The Mike Douglas Show when he was a kid. His older sister, Amy Stiller, has appeared in many of his productions, including Highway to Hell, Reality Bites, DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, and Zoolander. Growing up, Ben showed an early interest in filmmaking and made Super 8 movies with his sister and friends. By nine years old, Stiller made his acting debut on his mother’s short-lived television series, Kate McShane.

Stiller’s Early Life and Career

In the late ’70s, Stiller performed with the New York City troupe NYC’s First All Children’s Theater. After being inspired by the television show Second City Television in high school, Stiller realized that he wanted to get involved with sketch comedy. As a teenager, Stiller dabbled in music and was even the drummer of the post-punk band Capital Punishment. The band released the studio album Roadkill in 1982. Stiller briefly enrolled as a film student at the University of California before leaving school to move back to NYC. In 1986, Stiller was cast in the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of John Guare’s The House of Blue Leaves.

After Stiller created a parody of Martin Scorsese’s The Color of Money with a 10-minute short titled The Hustler of Money, his work got the attention of Saturday Night Live, which aired it in 1987. Two years later, SNL offered Stiller a spot as a writer. However, since the comedy sketch show didn’t want him to make more short films, he left after four episodes. Despite things not working out long-term at SNL, Stiller had his own show titled The Ben Stiller Show, which went from MTV to Fox to Comedy Central. Among the principal writers on the show were Stiller and Judd Apatow, with the show featuring the ensemble cast of Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, Andy Dick, and Bob Odenkirk.

With an impressive 135 acting credits beneath his belt, Stiller also produced 51 projects for film and television and directed 20 projects. Take a look below at our ranking of Ben Stiller’s six funniest movies:

  • 6. Meet the Fockers

    In this 2004 sequel to Meet the Parents, Ben Stiller’s Gaylord “Greg” Focker’s eccentric parents are played by Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman. In the beginning of the film, we are left in stitches by his parents’ answering machine that is utter chaos as Hoffman’s Bernie can’t figure out how to stop the recording. On top of that he is obsessed with chimichangas, even though it gives him horrible gas.

  • 5. There's Something About Mary

    The 1998 comedy was a surprise hit at the time, gaining a cult following. Before taking on the role as magazine writer Ted Stroehmann in the Farrelly Brothers’ movie, Stiller was trying to focus on directing. It is always so cringe and hilarious watching the scene where Stiller’s pubescent character gets his scrotum stuck in his zipper on his ill-fated prom night with Cameron Diaz’s Mary.

  • 4. Meet the Parents

    2000’s Meet the Parents was supposed to star Jim Carrey as the lead. He even contributed jokes to the screenplay, including the main character being named “Focker.” The Motion Picture Association (MPAA) wouldn’t allow the use of the name “Focker” until the filmmakers could find an actual person with that surname. This film has the iconic scene of Stiller’s Greg lying about pumping milk on a farm. When he says, “Oh yeah, you can milk anything with nipples,” De Niro replies, “I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me?”

  • 3. Starsky & Hutch

    Ben Stiller + Owen Wilson is comedy magic. Throw in Snoop Dogg, Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Juliette Lewis, and Will Ferrell, and this remains one of our favorite Stiller flicks of all time. Our favorite scene of the 2004 comedy film is when Stiller’s Starsky unknowingly uses cocaine as sugar and has a wild dance-off at the disco against Dancing Rick.

  • 2. Tropic Thunder

    The controversial movie that would never be made today, this 2008 Stiller production was a wild ride. The film stars Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Jay Baruchel, and Brandon T. Jackson as a group of prima donna actors making a Vietnam War film, not knowing that they are really in danger. When RDJ’s Kirk Lazarus is questioned about who he is by Stiller’s Tugg Speedman, he says, “Me? I know who I am! I’m the dude playin’ the dude, disguised as another dude!”

  • 1. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

    Stiller’s character had some of the most iconic lines in this classic comedy. 2004 was a great year for Stiller, as many of the films on our list came out that year. He plays the antagonist, White Goodman, a pretentious corporate gym owner who says the hilarious line, “Nobody makes me bleed my own blood.”

Laila Abuelhawa is the Top 40 and Hip-Hop pop culture writer for Beasley Media Group. Being with the company for over three years, Laila's fierce and fabulous red-carpet rankings have earned her a feature on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert!' Her favorite stories are those surrounding the latest in celebrity fashion, television and film rankings, and how the world reacts to major celebrity news. With a background in journalism, Laila's stories ensure accuracy and offer background information on stars that you wouldn't have otherwise known. She prides herself in covering stories that inform the public about what is currently happening and what is to come in the ever-changing, ever-evolving media landscape.

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