Owen Wilson is very popular on the internet for the way he pronounces the word “wow,” and now he’s drawing large crowds of people together to mimic him.
Last weekend, hundreds of people gathered in Australia to say “wow” in unison, in the actor’s style.
Wilson has said the word in a range of contexts during his movie career and some have even created series of compilation videos of him saying “wow” across his filmography. It’s also become the subject of many memes.
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The “Say Wow like Owen Wilson” event was held at Federation Square in Melbourne. It was organized by Nicolas Zoumboulis, who told The Independent that “ultimately I just really want to put some ‘positive energy,’ as Owen likes to say, out into the world.”
Zoumboulis continued, “In these times I think something as silly as getting together and saying ‘Wow’ can have a positive effect and I’d like to see everyone come together! If I can remind people that this world we are lucky to inhabit is beautiful, and to embrace that like Owen does in his movies by saying ‘Wow,’ then I’ll be happy.”
Many people at the event took to social media to share videos of the crowd saying “wow” in Wilson’s famous style.
Hundreds gathered in Australia to say Owen Wilson's iconic "wow" in unison pic.twitter.com/GzbD1JNeAt — Joel Franco (@OfficialJoelF) February 27, 2018
So there was a bunch of people last night gathered at Fed Square to say “wow” like Owen Wilson. Yep, that’s Melbourne! 🤯 pic.twitter.com/LnNHWrUZ28 — Fifi, Fev and Byron (@fififevandbyron) February 26, 2018
What a well-organised, inspiring event. Big props to the hosts for bringing together a community for one of the most humbling, positive afternoons of 2018, and great to see @abcnews there to witness. The only way to describe it, really, is…wow. #SayWOW — Pat Boxall (@PatrickBoxall) February 26, 2018
"Wow" -Owen Wilson A post shared by emily tuck (@emilyjaynetuck) on Feb 25, 2018 at 11:25pm PST
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Now, the same event will be happening all over the world.
The next scheduled “Wow like Owen Wilson” event is taking place in London, U.K. A Facebook event has been created for people to gather and “Say wow like Owen Wilson” in Trafalgar Square on March 11.
Other events are scheduled to take place in Augusta, Ga., Lafayette, La., and Chicago, Ill.
There is a Canadian event called, “Shout Owen Wilson’s Iconic ‘Wow’ In Front of the CN Tower.” It’s taking place in Toronto at Roundhouse Park on Friday, April 6 at 6 pm ET.
brycedallas_showered on March 2nd, 2018 at 06:34 UTC »
FYI this happened in central Melbourne at a place called Federation Square.
This isn't the first time something of this nature has been planned at Fed Square, with previous crowd participation events occurring such as:
"Scream Like Goku at Federation Square" "Find the queen at Federation Square" (Ugandan knuckles)
And there are currently 210 people on the Facebook 'Going' list and 750 people 'Interested' for "Scream Wakanda Forever at Federation Square"
CT-1138 on March 2nd, 2018 at 05:00 UTC »
I wonder if Owen Wilson knew he said "wow" as much as he does before it became a global recognition.
endarterectomist on March 2nd, 2018 at 01:39 UTC »
wow!