John Malkovich on 'Being John Malkovich'
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- čas přidán 13. 03. 2011
- Complete video at: fora.tv/2011/01/17/John_Malkov...
Acclaimed actor John Malkovich reflects on his initial feelings after reading Charlie Kaufman's script for the film, "Being John Malkovich". "It never occurred to me that anyone would be goofy enough to actually make that movie, but of course I hadn't met Spike Jonze then," says Malkovich.
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In this delightful, wide-ranging conversation with Jim Sharman, a respected and enduring artist in his own right, Malkovich speaks about his recent collaborations for the stage with Michael Sturminger, The Infernal Comedy and The Giacomo Variations, along with his rich and varied film and theatre work over the years.
Malkovich has acted in 65 films and was one of the founders of Chicago's critically-acclaimed Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Perhaps best-remembered for his stand-out roles in films such as Dangerous Liaisons and Being John Malkovich, Malkovich is also well known for his endless capacity to "shape shift" -- the seducer, the intellectual, philosopher, the coward -- often within a single character.
On the art of seduction, he tells Sharman: "Seduction is like theatre, you have to be where you are. You have to be in the present...and allow the person looking into you to read the quality in you that they need in order to be seduced by you."
The discussion ranges through the role of fathers and sons in American literature, Malkovich's love of William Faulkner, his disdain of celebrity, making unlikeable characters worth watching, and the critical differences between acting for the stage or screen.
The event was a part of the Sydney Festival 2011. - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
John Malkovich is an American actor, producer, director and recently fashion designer. Over the last 25 years of his career, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures. He received Academy Award nominations for his roles in "Places in the Heart" and "In the Line of Fire". He has also appeared in critically acclaimed films such as "Empire of the Sun", "The Killing Fields", "Dangerous Liaisons", "Being John Malkovich", and "Changeling". - Krátké a kreslené filmy
I loved him in that jewel thief movie
erinbarbarian 😂😂😂
erinbarbarian one of the great actors of the 20th century
Oh yea? What’s he been in?
John uh, uh, Maplethorpe?
Johnny English?
Hahahahaha
He's a great actor, but he will always be remembered as John Malkovich
His agent, partner, a friend, SOMEBODY should have advised him against taking that part.
I alwsys think of that jewel thief movie for some reason
Malkovich.
Always. Malkovich.
I think John Malkovich will be remembered as his most defining role.
I really didn't think he was convincing as John Malkovich.
Try-hard right? These method actors...
Malkovich Malkovich
A challenging role
He wasn’t, but everybody else was.
He was better in the jewel thief movie.
It's too bad that he was typecast as John Malkovich after the movie was so popular.
I know, they even use the name in the ads for all of the other movies he does, as if we couldn't know him from anything else.
Mac Mcleod Ha! That's funny.
His recent puppetry work is definitely worth a look.
I think a lot of us will be moving into puppetry.
Kauffman is a genuis
If they didn't get him they would have changed it to Being Steve Buscemi.
buscemi buschemi buschemi?
Fun fact: the interviewer is the director of The Rocky Horror Picture Show
One of the more enjoyable, and terrifyingly intimidating, actors of our time.
Docktor Jim him in Con Air omg 💖😂
Definitely,one of the best at playing characters, you love to hate.
Yes he is very intimidating!!! Great actor
Remember they’re in a cave.
still waiting for the sequel, being Joe Pesci
Olin Scharm Being Charlie Sheen.
Brain Stem Soup WINNING
Being Harvey Weinstein
Didn’t they kinda do that with the snickers commercial. The guy was Pesci until he took a bite. Very funny
Its exists and its called Get out
He was incredible in that movie. It's a shame he wasn't even nominated for his performance.
I love this movie and the actor, but i find his performance just fine, i mean, it didnt asked much of his capacity... and the 2000 oscar went to Kevin Spacey for American Beauty (1999), what i find very fair.
@@Herbert2892 Malkovich was the supporting actor, not the lead. I would have nominated him over Michael Caine that year. The win should have gone to Tom Cruise for Magnolia, it remains his greatest performance to this day. Caine was the weakest of the nominees that year.
Yeah, if anyone knows how to be John Malkovich, it’s John Malkovich.
For a second there I thought it was John Malkovich interviewing John Malkovich
thparadox malkovich malkovich malkovich
thparadox 😂
I actually auditioned for this movie a good 7 years before it was released. The basics of the story were explained, but they never identified Malkovich as the person who the characters were entering and there was no suggestion that the person in question was famous in any way.
They were just looking for faces to populate his imagination with apparently, but most of those ended up just being Malkovich himself.
I watched an interview of John Malkovich back in 1988 when he was really young, he talked gently and politely as the same manner in this interview now.
Its amazing that he could portrayed alot villians character in films, he is truly a great actor !
the best
Yeah, that scene when he finally steals the jewel, ill never forget the evilness in his face
Only John Malkovich could pull off playing a character named John Malkovich.
His accent, tone and pace is sublime 💖
And sexy
@@dianayz4644 very
Imagine if Nicholas Cage was inside John Malkovich...
Have you seen adaptation?
oh fuck. im gonna masturabte about this thought in the shower later
Put. The bunny. Back. In the box.
Jamerson James jesus
@@jamezz41 ưyo
I was in the audience in Sydney at this interview and he is quite a fascinating man.
i love him in burn after reading
John Malkovich, movies he has been in titles not so much but his acting I remember virtually every word and inflection. What more fame can be bestowed upon one. Thank you sir for making our lives that little much better than before the knowledge of you. ⏳⌚⏰⏱⏲🕰🕛🕧🕐🕜🕑🕝🕒🕞🕓🕟🕔🕠🕠🕕🕡🕖🕢🕗🕣🕘🕤🕙🕥🕚🕦⌛ a Malkovich film and a bottle of wine 100 years from...
I watched this movie when I was younger but most of it was lost on me. Just got finished watching it again and I was in stitches! The bit where Charlie Sheen (of all people) is the friend he turns to when he thinks he's going crazy, the scene with Brad Pitt giving Catherine Keener the side eye at a red carpet because she's more popular than him, the part where Lester is talking about who to live with forever at the end and brings up Gary Sinise. Lol! This movie was so Coen Brothers. Loved it.
he should've won an oscar
seamac206 I love the guy and everything but let's not go too far.
??? Did you not see the guy dance?
That scene alone.
Not just that dance scene. At times, Malkovich is playing another character (John Cusak's, Cameron Diaz's, etc.) possessing the character of John Malkovich, which is of course a fictional version of himself. He has to act like another person possessing a fictional version of himself . . . and he pulls it off beautifully. When he's possessed, he acts like John Cusak's or Cameron Diaz's characters, and he acts like he is those characters pretending to be the fictional version of himself. That's like three layers of meta-method acting.
It's a really, really great performance.
@@dunbardunelm3924 the fact alone that he can play craig schwartz and captain mertin just like the charachters john cussack and Orson bean played is worth an oscar sorry but this guy is a genius.
@@overgme he was never possesed by lotte. He was possesed schwartz and dr lester (captain mertin) and he play those roles fantasticly.
Fabulous movie. Slow and a bit too long start to me but with every minute it got better and better until the last second of the film - including end titles. Such a strong movie. Masterpiece in my opinion. Great characters, great acting, great story with interesting ideas and parallels. And damn, atmosphere was hypnotic with it's sadness and beauty, being at the same time.
MetalScull it’s perfection! you hush now
One of the strongest movie endings I've seen.
Spike Jonze direction, pretty good.. Pretty damn good
He's my favorite driftwood artist. I have several of his works.
I didn't know who he was until I heard about the movie.
Just saw this movie (yeah I’m late to the party) but wow that was a trip.
Malkovich Malkovich. Malkovich, Malkovich Malkovich, Malkovich Malkovich. Malkovich.
best title to a youtube video ever
I love you, Mr. Malkovich 💘
I think of you as one of the best filmmakers in the history of human Kind!!!
Writer... the film director was Spike Jonze.
Malkovitch is a bit confused with the timing there. Being John Malkovich's first draft is from 1995 - when he finished Mulholland Falls (the movie he mentioned by Lee Tamahori). The movie was made in 1998, three years later, not 6 or more as he mentioned.
ricarleite the first draft of the screenplay was written in 1989...
at 2:25 you can see his face becomes almost two faces, that is just malkovich trying to escape his captor inside his head
John Malkovich interviewing John Malkovich on being John Malkovich.
0:18 He was in California, finished reading his books, he called his production office
Fantastic!
1:12 Have you read this. It is incredibly good
3:01 Years Pass.
I am fairly certain the Flora TV sound/music at the beginning of this video is used in porno videos
I didn't really misspell it, I just abbreviated sergeant and the whole album title for that matter.
I saw this movie when it was released but didn't understand it , just remeber the 7 and 1/2 floor !
John you Rock!
“So I was looking for something to read-“
“HAHAHA”
i would like to see the entire interview but the site is no longer online, please upload the entire interview here
Link is broken 404
The site you were looking for couldn't be found.
I liked that movie. I liked Burn after Reading too.
For the curious, the Lee Tomahori movie he mentions is Mulholland Falls, which came out in 1996. Being John Malkovich came out in 1999 so the time gap likely wasnt as great as Malkovich suggests here.
How does that annoying fact matter?
@@martitinkovich4489 use your imagination.
@@michaelfavata2720 Ok, here I go................sorry, no soap. 3 years and not 6, who gives a shit?
@@martitinkovich4489 You might imagine curious people might wondering, "who was that director he mentioned?" "How do you spell his name?" "What was the movie he was working on?" As far as the time gap, I just thought it showed the fallibility of memory, or the way we tend to exaggerate for the sake of a story. In any case if you've used 4 minutes of your life hearing the story, you may as well know about whether the key assertions Malkovitch makes (that it took a real long time for this strange movie to get made) is true or not. If that's of no interest to you, you're welcome to scroll along!
@@michaelfavata2720 It didn't strike me as important........also the way Malkovich speaks[by the way,it's Malkovich w/out the "t", just like my name], it seems like he's not even sure if he was making a movie or what he was doing. He seems to me, to be having a hard time maniifesting in this particular dimension......my take only.
"oh nothing make me sadder than a agent los his bladder on the AIR plane"
had to GAG him n BAG him!
SubscribeItWontHURT 😂😂😂
I scrutinized your icon to see if it was Srgt. Pepper or We're Only in it for the Money. I was pleased with the answer.
He came to my city and I didn't find out till a week later, FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU...
SO glad he changed his mind!
Is he playing John Malkovich for the interview?
Malkovich Malkovich, Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich. Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich! Malkovich....
Malkovich malkovich malkovich.... Malkovich?
TheHairyJustice this is smart!!!!
Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich. Malkovich Malkovich!
Malkovich: MALKOVICH!!! Malkovich waitress: malkovich
Malkoviiiiiiiiiiiiiiich
Malkovich, malcovich malcovich malcovich malcovich.¿Malcovich malcovich, malcovich?
malcovich malcovich malcovich malcovich.
@2nDoppelganger
Why do I find his pauses so funny? D:
Man, he was so crazy-sexy in that movie. 🔥
So who’s controlling him in this interview?
Why is this comment spam? It's this guys opinion. Just cause it's different than many of ours doesn't make him wrong.
INTERESTING thing is when i first watched this movie i immediately noticed and fell into this potential deeper meaning in the film that i'm not sure was meant to be portrayed. I think this movie depicts schizophrenia unintentionally. John cusack and cameron diaz being his split personalities and catherine keener being the shrink trying to help john malkovic to get him back to himself and defeating schizophrenia. The two sides constantly battling back and forth to gain control over him. Wild thought
Schizophrenia or demonic possession or nanotech poisoning.
That wouldn't be schizophrenia though.
That's heavy my dude.
Malkovich? Malkovich? Malkovich malkovich
No Body Malkovich!!!
Malkovich 🙂🙂🙂🙂
i wonder, if the movie had gotten made without him... then who would've played john malkovich?
That's tough. I mean it has to pass the malkovich malkovich test. I can't imagine that scene with any other name.
@@Kojitsu malkovich malkovich, malkovich, malkovich malkovich malkovich
Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich
@Truthiness231 It's true.
big big malkovich .. a real e.motion transporter
That's Marco Muller, right? The interviewer I mean....
@Ragnaros12345 At the time I felt like it was a somewhat jerky thing to post, but it seems we have concurrence. =P
Seriously though, nothing personal Ragnaros, I just did it for the trollolols; looking at your favorites we have more in common than most random strangers meeting up ^.^ (right off the bat I seen The Boondocks, Hitchens, and videos from TED, all of which can be found in spades throughout my fav collection).
But he only answered the second question.
thats nothing. I got the whole song 'simon says' named after me.
Haha, I saw this movie two days ago.
I saw it today.
The movie was absolutely Malkoviching Malkovich!
His body language is all over the place. Hard to get a read on him.
Anybody else realizing that a big part of the joke is that Joh Malkovich doesn't get the movie about him being John Malkovich?
You think so?
cyrus
John is right, it technically should have been about someone younger and handsome, but thank goodness he made it.
To all aspiring future writers and directors out there, Spielberg didn't start his career until his 40's, Scorcese didn't make his first movie until his 40's, and Being John Malkovich was shelved for nearly a decade before they decided to make it a movie.
Never give up.
Cpapa18 spielberg was 24 when he directed tv film 'duel' which got the attention of the big bugs
Spielberg directed "Jaws" at 26, and Martin Scorsese directed "Taxi Driver" in his 30s.
You are so fucking wrong
Scorsese made his first feature at 27
"Tend the wabbits"
Don't fight hate with more hate... I get that you're angry but hate solves nothing
i like how you spelled Zappa's album right but the Beatles's wrong
Gotta think fast
Teddy KGB!
Malkovich?
Type Cast
So ... if I write something as good as "Being John Malkovich" .... and rich, famous, connected people like it... it might still be 6+ YEARS till it finally starts getting made!?
John Malkovich talking about Being John Malkovich after getting asked a question about Being John Malkovich because he acted in Being John Malkovich.
I bet captain mertin and his friend now explain how is it to be john malkovich
"I grew tired of religion some time not long after birth."
-- John Malkovich
If I ever meet John I'm gonna ask is it okay to call him Lottie.
why is he still in character
The abbreviation of sergeant is Sgt, not Srgt
You can't out-scrutinize the Grand Scrutinizer
...standing to attention, General Malkovich
One studio wanted to call it Being Tom Cruise.
STOP DOING THIS!!! THIS IS NOT SPAM. You can vote it down to the ground but you are INFLATING the spam button and making it worthless. Just because a comment is unpopular DOES NOT MAKE IT SPAM.
Spam should be .. ads, "Come to my myspace page" shit like that.
I wonder why th director was so fixated on John being the vessel?
The theme of the movie has him as the available vessel..........it doesn't beg explanation in my mind.
@@martitinkovich4489 I guess, but why John Malkovich in particular?
@@Obama_OReilly You mean why Malkovich for that role?
@@martitinkovich4489 ye
@FierySockHat I have a friend who calls her husband her partner. :P
Screenplay collected dust for 5-6 years??
Malkovich Malkovich? Malkovich?
Malkovich.
Malkovich?
…MALKOVICH!!!
Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich…Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich!
MalkovichMalkovichMalkovichMalkovichMalkovichMalkovich
LP!
Malkovich, malkovich?
Social distancing
@AliceElphabaWonka no he isn't gay
he doesn't have a gender.
except when he has to act as himself being possessed by someone else
Jesus that was the longest 3 minutes of my life, why is he so long winded?
If Megan Ellison were old enough in 1995 she would have funded BJM in two shakes of a lamb's tail.
I worked with this guy ("Eleni"). Not fun.
Why not?