OWen Wilson

 When Woody Allen had enough budget to shoot "Midnight in Paris" (2011), he contacted his preferred cast, but many were working on different projects and couldn't commit. When Owen Wilson's name came up for the leading role, Allen rewrote the character to fit. Allen originally wrote the character Gil as an East Coast intellectual, "I thought Owen would be charming and funny, but my fear was that he was not so Eastern at all in his persona," said Allen, who realised that making Gil a Californian would actually make the character richer.

Wilson: "I really didn't know, to be honest, whether it was working. This fantastical element when I go on my walks at midnight into this other world. I had my doubts because a lot of the people that I meet are iconic people from history. Who's going to play them? How's that going to work? But then I see the movie and it works. It's one of the best things in the movie. It was great."

Wilson says he first met and spoke to Allen when he arrived in France to begin filming.

Due to Allen's habit of only giving actors the script pages concerning their characters, Tom Hiddleston was unaware of the film's time travel storyline until he met Wilson on-set and asked him why he wasn't wearing period-accurate clothing like the rest of the cast. Wilson and Hiddleston would work together again in the mini series "Loki," a show also involving time travelling.

Happy Birthday, OWen Wilson!