HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Jennifer Aniston says the performance of her "Marley & Me" co-star Owen Wilson is remarkable, particularly on the heels of the actor's alleged suicide attempt.
"I've never seen him play a part like this," the 39-year-old actress says of Wilson in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. "He was a man; he was a husband; he was a father."
Wilson was hospitalized in August 2007 after he reportedly attempted suicide, making his performance all the more impressive in Aniston's eyes.
"I feel like, how brave of him, to walk through the year that he walked through, and still show up so wholeheartedly for the film," she tells the Times.
"He has no temper, no ego, he's collaborative and funny and sweet," she adds.
In the romantic comedy, which opens Dec. 25, the pair star alongside a yellow labrador named Clyde. Aniston tells the paper that her furry co-star wasn't as easy to work with.
"I walked onto the set and put my sweater and my bag down on the couch, and that dog leapt up onto the couch, grabbed my sweater and started ripping it," she recalls of her first encounter with Clyde.
"[The trainers] said, 'good, good boy!' and gave him treats," she adds. "The set was a toy."
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