John malkovich

How to be John Malkovich is an unanswered question. His ability to make all kinds of disturbing characters has ensured that only his face is capable of terrifying more than one viewer. The evil that emanates is not contradictory to the attraction that makes the public feel. Despite the uneasiness caused by many of his characters, the viewer feels hypnotized, and the last thing he wants is for them to disappear from the scene.

His first contact with acting was when he was 23 years old. He was born in Christopher (Illinois) on November 9, 1953, so he joined the Chicago Steppehwolf Theater company, with which he continues to collaborate. His career on the stage led him to Broadway to share the bill with Dustin Hoffmanin ‘Death of a salesman’ (1984), a job that they would repeat a year later in their television version. Before becoming an actor, he worked at an office supply store, drove a school bus, painted houses, and collected herbs for a garden company. He doesn’t remember what led him to become an actor, since he could have been anything else. What he is clear about is that he is happy with his profession, “it’s great to pretend you’re someone else and get paid ridiculous amounts of money for it.”

He made his television debut in 1981 and three years later in cinema. His first role was a supporting role in the drama En un lugar del corazón . His fine performance of a blind man earned him an Oscar nomination. This film serves to remember that although Malkovich is a guy with a bad face, he is capable of making the most painted cry and soften. His first starring role didn’t come until 1987 with Making the Perfect Man . That same year Steven Spielberg called him to play Christian Bale ‘s ‘guide’ in Empire of the Sun. He seemed to like the experience of working with well-known directors, and since then he has been in demand by filmmakers such as Stephen Frears ., which was given to him by the perverse character of Valmont in the film version of Dangerous Liaisons (1988). A role that fits Malkovich’s profile like a glove, as it arouses the desire to finish him off, along with an imperative need to stay by his side. The film about the decline of the nobility gave way to the drama The Sheltering Sky (1990), where he worked under the orders of Bernardo Bertolucci . Two years later he was called by Woody Allen to act in Shadows and Fog . Showing how evil and disturbing he could be, Malkovich turned his steps towards his first role. Without being blessed like the blind man, the mentally handicapped man from Of Mice and Men(1992) arouses the sensitivity of the public, who sympathizes with him despite the dramatic situations that he manages to provoke. But his is the dark side, and he demonstrated it as the antagonist of Clint Eastwood in In the line of fire (1993), whose work earned him his second Oscar nomination. After being a creepy killer, Malkovich looked to Portugal, a country he adores. In 1995 he worked for the first time for the Portuguese Manoel de Oliveira in El convento . He has worked with the veteran filmmaker on two more occasions, the last of which, A Talking Film (2003), the best collaboration between the two.

Malkovich’s hypnotic and disturbing evil was seen in titles such as Mary Reilly (1996), where he was Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Portrait of a Lady (1996), where he was another twisted nobleman, or in the action film Con Air (Convicts in the air) (1997), where he led some prisoners who rebel on a flight. The more human side of him was seen in the surreal Being John Malkovich(1999). In his own words, “when I read the title I thought it was a one line joke, but when I finished reading the whole script, it became a 100 page joke”. The leitmotif of the story is the chance to get into John’s head and live as him for a while. However, what is most striking is the image that the actor shows of himself, since he appears as a despicable and self-centered being, a vision that surely not all Hollywood actors would be willing to offer. Having played himself, it seemed impossible that Malkovich could surprise the viewer. But then came Shadow of the Vampire (2000), another peculiar project in which he played FW Murnau., the famous German expressionist filmmaker, during the filming of his masterpiece, Nosferatu . After his Murnau’s lack of scruples, Malkovich returned to absolute evil at the hands of Tom Ripley in Ripley ‘s Game (2002), by Liliana Cavani . That year he took the opportunity to debut behind the scenes in Dance Steps , in which to date is his only film as a director. For the occasion, he chose the Spaniards Javier Bardem and Juan Diego Botto as protagonists. Now Malkovich comes to the screens with Beowulf by Robert Zemeckis, where he is the sinister adviser to King Hrothgar, a character digitally recreated by the “motion capture” method. Palace intrigues are not new to him, since he was the evil king Galbatrix in Eragon (2006). As far as his immediate plans are concerned, he has Burn After Reading , the latest from the Coen brothers, pending release and is shooting The Changeling under the orders of Clint Eastwood.

Given Malkovich’s brilliant compositions of complex personalities, the public ends up needing to know more about his private life. Anyone looking for any symptom of psychotic insanity is on the wrong track, because from what little is known, he leads a fairly quiet life between the French countryside and the United States. Since 1989 he has been married to Nicoletta Peyran, with whom he has a 17-year-old daughter (Amandine), and a 15-year-old son (Lorwy). A year before getting married, he divorced his first wife, also an actress Glenne Headly , with whom he had been together for six years. Perhaps they are the ones who can shed some light on how to be John Malkovich.