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 usually 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 endure in depth golf coaching so that they appear nice on the grass. To that finish, each actors had been assigned PGA Tour participant, 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 hold your arm straight.” The Marley & Me star would initially discover this recommendation tough to stick to. “However holding this straight shouldn’t be relaxed, so you’d get loads 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 serious {golfing} breakthrough that encourages him to maintain attempting.
After all, Peter Dager was anticipated to show even higher expertise, 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 enhance his personal swing, Dager tells M&F that holding the elbows collectively and imagining that he’s squeezing a ball is without doubt one of the finest ideas that he’s personally acquired. Nonetheless, the explanation that Stick works so properly 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 show their respective swing strategies to M&F, Owen Wilson provides 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 already know, I’ve been on planes the place I’m type 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 fellows had been type of ready within the queue for his or her unemployment,” says Wilson “And the music comes on, they begin type of dancing, feeling the music, and there’s positively that (state of affairs) with a golf swing the place you’re all the time form of (discovering) and alternative to form of observe it,” he jokes. Whereas Stick is significantly emotional but very humorous on display, 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 move the time.
Along with Wilson and Dager, Stick’s ensemble forged contains Marc Maron, Mariana Treviño, Lilli Kay, Judy Greer and Timothy Olyphant, and options visitor appearances from golf superstars equivalent to 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 by way of to July 23, 2025. To observe Owen Wilson and Peter Dager’s full interview with muscleandfitness.com, see under.