Owen Wilson and Peter Dager spent months coaching with golf’s best instructors to make the brand new Apple TV+ comedy-drama Stick, however in an unique interview with M&F, the stars revealed why training on their very own time typically resembled a well-known scene in The Full Monty.
In Stick, Owen Wilson performs “Pryce Cahill,” a has-been golf professional whose life is spiraling uncontrolled earlier than he meets Peter Dager’s character, ‘Santi Wheeler,’ a teenage {golfing} sensation with a world of potential. With the present centering round their up-and-down relationship, the 2 had been required to bear intensive golf coaching so that they give the impression of being nice on the grass. To that finish, each actors had been assigned PGA Tour player, Nathan Leonhardt to assist them grasp their swing.
“I bear in mind getting the tip from Nathan… simply calm down,” Wilson tells M&F. “Attempt to get into that flow-state. However you gotta maintain your arm straight.” The Marley & Me star would initially discover this recommendation troublesome to stick to. “However holding this straight is just not relaxed, so you’d get plenty of contradictory (recommendation): Be relaxed however do one thing that’s very unnatural and inflexible, like holding your arms straight, and in order that’s continued for me to be the problem.” Nonetheless, each on occasion, Wilson says he makes a significant {golfing} breakthrough that encourages him to maintain attempting.
After all, Peter Dager was anticipated to reveal even better abilities, because the plot is constructed on the potential for him to turn into a champion, and to assist redeem Wilson’s character on the similar time. Whereas Owen Wilson says that replicating the motion of a bicep curl has helped him to improve his own swing, Dager tells M&F that holding the elbows collectively and imagining that he’s squeezing a ball is likely one of the greatest suggestions that he’s personally obtained. Nonetheless, the explanation that Stick works so effectively is as a result of it’s apparent that each males have legitimately fallen in love with the game, even going so far as training in some novel areas.
Owen Wilson and Peter Dager Channeled ‘The Full Monty’ to Observe Their Golf Swing
As the celebs of Apple TV+’s Stick reveal their respective swing methods to M&F, Owen Wilson offers a hilarious tackle training on their very own time. “What’s humorous is, seeing (Peter) do this, and I used to be simply doing it, you realize, I’ve been on planes the place I’m form of ready to make use of the rest room and I’ll begin [practicing my swing],” he laughs. “I do it on the subway,” concurs Dager.
“I keep in mind that scene in The Full Monty the place the blokes had been form of ready within the queue for his or her unemployment,” says Wilson “And the music comes on, they begin form of dancing, feeling the music, and there’s undoubtedly that (state of affairs) with a golf swing the place you’re all the time type of (discovering) and alternative to type of apply it,” he jokes. Whereas Stick is critically emotional but very humorous on display screen, the actors additionally had a pleasant {golfing} rivalry behind the cameras. Anytime one thing wanted to be reset or there was a break in filming, Wilson and Dager inform M&F that they couldn’t resist selecting up the golf equipment to cross the time.
Along with Wilson and Dager, Stick’s ensemble solid contains Marc Maron, Mariana Treviño, Lilli Kay, Judy Greer and Timothy Olyphant, and options visitor appearances from golf superstars resembling Collin Morikawa, Keegan Bradley, Max Homa, Wyndham Clark and extra.
Stick will make its world streaming debut on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, with the primary three episodes, adopted by one episode weekly via to July 23, 2025. To look at Owen Wilson and Peter Dager’s full interview with muscleandfitness.com, see beneath.
