NEW YORK, Sept. 13 (UPI) — Cars, Night at the Museum, Wedding Crashers and Meet the Parents alum Owen Wilson jokes that the chatty character he plays in the new action dramedy, Runner, wasn’t that big a stretch for him.

Directed by Scott Waughn and in theaters this weekend, the film casts Wilson as Ben Bishop, a courier transporting a desperately needed liver to a hospital where a little girl with a rare blood type awaits a transplant.

Alan Ritchson plays Hank Malone, the driver hired to pick up the liver, who quickly realizes he has been manipulated by a cartel led by Damian Zaldivar, who wants the organ for his own purposes.

“Scott and I talked about this is a little bit of the tyranny of the pleasant personality, just a guy who kind of won’t stop talking and always kind of in a good mood, but it can be grating or certainly is for Hank,” Wilson, 57, told UPI in a recent Zoom interview.

“I don’t know what it says about me, that it was very easy for me to play,” he laughed.

Although Ben does get on Hank’s nerves, they bond as they race against time to save the dying child while fighting off gun-men who will stop at nothing to steal their cargo.

“Hank has suffered a lot. He’s a guy that’s kind of struggling and that’s who he is when we meet him and I can sort of pick up on something and he doesn’t really want to talk about it,” Wilson said.

“There’s something kind of driving him or kind of a wound and he’s got his daughter’s picture there in the car. So, it’s just kind of a good sort of [scenario with] two guys stuck together and how do you pass the time?” he explained.

“I’m trying to get to know him and, then, of course, we’re put into these extreme situations and, so, I think it was just kind of a good dynamic to kind of explore.”

Throughout numerous car chases and shootout scenes with bullets whizzing by him, Ben hangs on to the little cooler protecting the priceless liver.

“Early on, I wanted the reality. ‘This needs to be heavy,’ and we went along and [the weather] got hotter and I was like, ‘Isn’t there a way to make this thing lighter?'” Wilson recalled. “By the end, it felt like a little piece of balsa wood.”

Wilson said he got to keep the prop when production wrapped.

“Yes, I have it in Malibu,” he said.