He says: "It (suicide theme) comes more from me than Owen. He is just playing a role. There's not much else there.
"People can't avoid making connections, but they are making them after the fact." And Anderson also plays down speculation Wilson was responsible for the scene in 2001 movie The Royal Tenenbaums, which the pair co-wrote, where his brother Luke Wilson's character tries to kill himself by cutting his wrists. He adds: "I wrote that character myself.
Owen was not in on that one.