Skip to main content  Clive Owen on playing a father in
'Intruders' and what scares him  By Aaron Sagers, Special to CNN
updated 12:00 PM EDT, Wed April 4, 2012   • Clive Owen has
carved out a career portraying an intense man of thought and
action   • He plays John Farrow in the upcoming psychologically
driven horror-thriller "Intruders"   • Owen says it's important
to build up trust with a child actor  (CNN) -- Clive Owen isn't
the leading man actor normally described as dashing and ruggedly
handsome when he enters the room.  Sure, the movie star charm
and warmth is there, but when Owen sits down with a group of
reporters, it's as a father who knows terror.  After being
introduced to American audiences in 2000 with "Croupier," Owen
has carved out a career in films portraying an intense, if
disheveled, man of thought and action in "Children of Men,"
"Closer" and "Inside Man." He's also shown the ability to be a
little less thoughtful with fun, ultraviolent flicks "Shoot 'Em
Up" and "Sin City."  In the new psy