Luke Wilson on a Winning Streak

Luke Wilson is not a gambling man, but if he were, he could bet on a winning streak this summer, when he appears in no fewer than four films -- starlet sequels Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and Legally Blonde 2, Masked & Anonymous (about a mercurial musician, played by mercurial musician Bob Dylan) and Alex & Emma, a romantic comedy in which he assays his first "leading man" role opposite Kate Hudson.

"I have friends that will call me up and say, 'Hey, I went to the movies and saw a couple of your trailers. What's the story?' You get the feeling you're kind of annoying people by being out there so much. But what can I say? I'm trying to make a living," says the plainspoken Texan, who was an accomplished track athlete before the independent short film Bottle Rocket (1994) -- cowritten by brother Owen and director Wes Anderson -- hurtled him into Hollywood when Columbia Pictures produced the feature version in 1996.

Since that auspicious debut, Luke, 33, has worked steadily in such films as Homefries and Best Men with then-girlfriend Drew Barrymore, Anderson's Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums and mainstream comedies Angels, Blonde and Old School.