This article was published last week (2002/09/26) in the German newspaper "Sueddeutsche Zeitung". Translated by Iris:

He comes across as tough but at the same time he has a sensitive vein. He is able to appear gloomy like now in "The Bourne Identity", however you can feel a tremendous vulnerability in his eyes. Clive Owen, born in 1965 in Coventry, embodies the rediscovery of the British man as a sensuous, mysterious creature. After innumerable parts on stage and TV (as private detective in "Sharman"), he got his first big appearance on screen in Sean Mathias´ "Bent" as easy going dandy of the Weimar republic, who is put to the concentration camp because of his homosexuality. A martyr, who sees in affliction and revolts in self-discovery.

The break through in Europe and the USA he got by the name part in Mike Hodges "Croupier". As author and moderator of the gamble he investigates London´s underworld, the yearning of adventurers and the impelled - an observer who does not notice, that it is already him standing in the centre of an invidious game.

In the beautiful, underestimated "Greenfingers" Owen plays a guy who is condemned because of manslaughter and finds his deliverance as a gardener. Clive Owen - he is the seeking guy in a disconcerting world who emits an erotic melancholy. Consequently in the BMW internet series "Hire", whose episodes were stage-managed by John Frankenheimer, Ang Lee, Guy Ritchie and Alejandro Iñárritu, he is set as the tight-lipped driver who takes us into an uncertain future. Therefore it is coherent that he is under discussion to play a new, tougher James Bond. And to take part in the cinema version of the famous TV series "The Prisoner". So he would be the "homme fatale" of the new millennium, cool and doomed, sexy and paranoid.