Actor Owen Wilson is in surprisingly good spirits after attempting to commit suicide on August 26, according to his friend, director Wes Anderson.

“Obviously he has been through a lot this week,” said Anderson, who directed the actor in his latest film The Darjeeling Limited.

“I can tell you he has been doing very well, he has been making us laugh.”

Wilson and Anderson, both 38, cowrote The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore and Bottle Rocket. Anderson also directed the actor in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

“When he is ready he’s going to speak for himself much better than any of us could,” said the director, who was addressing a news conference to promote The Darjeeling Limited, which is being shown at the Venice Film Festival.

Wilson was rushed to the hospital last week after police responded to a call about a suicide attempt at his Santa Monica home.

In “Darjeeling,” Wilson plays one of three estranged brothers (with Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman) who travel by train across India in an attempt to find their long-lost mother.

Wilson’s character is depressed by his father’s death, and he wears bandages on his face and wrist throughout the movie, suggesting a recent suicide attempt.

According to the Associated Press, when asked what it was like to work with Wilson, Brody said that the actor was a fun-loving addition to the set.

“Owen has a tremendous sense of humor and he’s very mischievous,” Brody said.

Owen Wilson returned home under a 24 hour watch, due to last week’s suicide attempt. I hope that the photographers and press give Owen some time to heal.

Get well, Owen!

Less than a week after his suicide attempt, Owen Wilson is back at home – and being watched around the clock.

“Owen is in bad mental shape but said he is thankful to be alive,” says a source close to the actor, who had returned to his Santa Monica home on Saturday. “He knows he came close to ending his life, and he is happy that he was saved from himself. He is basically at home with people watching him 24/7.”

Wilson’s rep declined to comment.

Wilson, 38, was hospitalized Aug. 26 after what a police log called an “attempt suicide.” He spent the next several days at Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with constant visits from brothers Andrew and Luke Wilson, his parents and such friends as Wes Anderson and Woody Harrelson.

Wilson, who had been due to begin promoting his next film, The Darjeeling Limited at the Venice Film Festival this week, also dropped out of his next movie project, Tropic Thunder. The comedy was set to begin shooting this month, and would have paired Wilson with longtime pal Ben Stiller.

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Owen Wilson did not suffer a drug overdose on Sunday (Aug. 26) but he was taking anti-depressants, the actor’s attorney tells Access Hollywood.

The actor, who was rushed to hospital after allegedly cutting his wrists in an attempted suicide, did not have his stomach pumped, says the attorney. Wilson was found by brother Luke in his Santa Monica home, and a 911 call report showed it was logged as an “attempted suicide.” Media outlets had speculated that he was also found with an empty bottle of pills beside him, but the attorney said he was not aware of any drugs, other than anti-depressants, being in Wilson’s system at the time of incident.

Wilson is currently recovering at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and has asked people respect his privacy in a statement saying he needs to, “receive care and heal in private during this difficult time.” That wish just got a bit closer to coming true: the Santa Monica City Attorney’s office has announced they will not release the 911 call made by Luke.

“In reaching this decision the City believes that in many instances no person should have to worry about whether placing a call for emergency assistance will automatically make his or her medical request open to public review,” the City Attorney’s office said in a press release late Wednesday. “In balancing the competing interests, the City agencies outweighs the public interest served by disclosure of the emergency 911 call. In situation such as this, the City concludes that the public is best served if medical attention is promptly sought instead of being delayed because of a concern, real or imagined, of public attention, regardless of whether that publicity is sympathetic or not.”

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Friends and family of Owen Wilson have been rallying around the actor after he attempted to commit suicide on August 26 by slicing his wrist and ingesting pills. They have also been trying to determine where it all went wrong.

“Owen started hanging out around the wrong people again,” says a source.

To wit: At least two sources blame British actor Steve Coogan. The party boy rehab veteran was Owen’s costar in Night at the Museum and Around the World in 80 Days.

“I went through it with Steve,” rocker Courtney Love, who dated Coogan, 41, until an acrimonious split in 2006, tells Us.

“I was just out of rehab, and he was right there with the drugs,” she says. “I tried to warn Owen. I tried to warn his friends … I hope from the bottom of my heart that Owen stays the hell away from that guy.”

Indeed, former girlfriend Kate Hudson, 28, “forbid him from letting Coogan into his house. She knew he was bad,” says another source. (Reps for Coogan did not respond to requests for comment.)

“The drugs and partying were a huge factor in the breakup,” says a pal of Hudson, who has a 3-year-old son, Ryder, with ex-husband Chris Robinson. “As much as she liked him, she didn’t want to be around that” - especially given the fact that Robinson is a recovering drug addict.

Wilson’s loved ones worried so much about his dependence on hard drugs, Us has learned, that friend Woody Harrelson staged an informal intervention at his Hawaii home in May.

But Owen, 38, continued to withdraw and succumb to depression following his June split from Hudson, who is now dating Punk’d star Dax Shepard - which might have pushed Wilson over the edge.

“Seeing her happy with someone else made him happy that she’d found that,” says one longtime Wilson family friend, “but made him hate himself so much more that he could never do it.””

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Owen Wilson has placed his acting career on hold as he recovers from his suicide attempt.

Wilson, 38, has dropped out of Tropic Thunder, a movie comedy for DreamWorks he was set to begin shooting in two to three weeks with longtime pal Ben Stiller, Variety reports.

Wilson’s role was due to take a week, according to the trade paper. Stiller – who is producing, directing and starring in the film – started shooting in Hawaii six weeks ago.

The decision for Wilson to sit out the project was apparently mutual between him and Stiller, and it is unclear whether Wilson will be replaced or if his role will be dropped from the script, says Variety.

Tropic Thunder involves a group of actors on the location set of a war movie who find themselves caught up in a real-life conflict. The comedy also stars Jack Black, Robert Downey, Jr. and Nick Nolte.

Wilson and Stiller, 41, have starred together in eight movies: The Cable Guy (1996), Permanent Midnight (1998), Meet the Parents (2000), Zoolander (2001), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Starsky & Hutch (2004), Meet the Fockers (2004) and Night at the Museum (2006).

Wilson is currently in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after being taken there Sunday. In his only statement since then, the leading man has asked to be given the privacy to “heal.”

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Santa Monica police confirmed that officers responded to an attempted suicide at Owen Wilson’s house, according to the police log.

The department’s “Call for Service Report” posted online shows that the report came in at 12:08 p.m. Sunday from Wilson’s 23rd Street address and that officers cleared the case five hours later.

The call was logged as “Attempt Suicide” – the first official confirmation of the reason for the call.

No other details were provided.

Wilson, 38, was recovering at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He issued a statement pleading for privacy to allow him to “receive care and heal in private during this difficult time.”

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