Kaplan-McDowell
Here’s a recording of a chat I had yesterday afternoon with Malcolm McDowell and producer-director Mike Kaplan about their documentary, Never Apologize, which is basically a capturing of a one-man show that McDowell performed in Ojai not long ago about his long, warm, nurturing relationship with director Lindsay Anderson, who directed McDowell in If…, O Lucky Man! and Brittania Hospital. I have to get in line for a 7 pm showng of James Gray‘s We Own The Night, but I’ll share a few comments about the film tomorrow.
mcdowell looks great. come on hollywood, put him to work!
He had a brief, but memorable, turn in Heroes, but they (apparently) whacked him after only 3 or 4 episodes.
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“come on hollywood, put him to work!”
Yeah, but in stuff that’s good. He’s slumming in Heroes on TV and he’s Dr. Loomis in the new Halloween. He deserves better.
He wasn’t ‘slumming’ in Heroes.
christian: mcdowell looks great. come on hollywood, put him to work!
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Rich S.:He had a brief, but memorable, turn in Heroes, but they (apparently) whacked him after only 3 or 4 episodes.
Bogus.
cjkennedy: Yeah, but in stuff that’s good. He’s slumming in Heroes on TV and he’s Dr. Loomis in the new Halloween. He deserves better.
Bogus.
jeffmcm: He wasn’t ‘slumming’ in Heroes.
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Good call jeffmcm, definitely not slumming on Heroes. I don’t blame some actors for staying on television. There are some pretty interesting stories and characters to play there. Movies are a lot of retread nowadays.
I read in an interview that McDowell was already committed to Halloween sequels if they happen. That does cause some concern beyond the question of why Halloween needed to be remade or re-envisioned anyway.
I do wish he was on the big screen more.
I’ll agree being in a popular television program is far from slumming, but I don’t like the show and stopped watching it so I hope he does more than that.
Bogus.
Since he got killed off, that seems likely.
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Has McDowell finally stopped blaming Michael Caine for “stealing” his career?
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Helen Mirren probably has enough clout now to get that much talked-about Caligula sequel greenlit.
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Jeffmcm, just because he’s no longer on Heroes (I didn’t know, what with the “stopped watching” and all) it doesn’t necessarily follow that he will move on to anything better. Whatever it is, I hope it’s not Clockwork Orange 2 where someone like Paul WS Anderson picks up the story from the 21st chapter that Kubrick left out…
Bogus.
Malcolm McDowell has had a great career, CLOCKWORK ORANGE, the Lindsay Anderson trilogy (IF, O LUCKY MAN! BRITTANIA HOSPITAL), killed Captain Kirk at the movies, done great work in kick ass classic flicks like TIME AFTER TIME, GANGSTER NUMBER 1, CAT PEOPLE — I’ll stop there, sure he’s done lots of made for video trash, but the guy keeps coming back with solid work, recently with great turns on ENTOURAGE and HEROES.
Don’t cry for him dudes, he stars as Dr. Loomis in the upcoming Rob Zombie HALLOWEEN remake.
“come on hollywood, put him to work!”
Yeah, but in stuff that’s good. He’s slumming in Heroes on TV and he’s Dr. Loomis in the new Halloween. He deserves better.
Excellent!
christian: mcdowell looks great. come on hollywood, put him to work!
Excellent!
Rich S.:He had a brief, but memorable, turn in Heroes, but they (apparently) whacked him after only 3 or 4 episodes.
Bogus.
cjkennedy: Yeah, but in stuff that’s good. He’s slumming in Heroes on TV and he’s Dr. Loomis in the new Halloween. He deserves better.
Bogus.
jeffmcm: He wasn’t ‘slumming’ in Heroes.
Excellent!
I’ll agree being in a popular television program is far from slumming, but I don’t like the show and stopped watching it so I hope he does more than that.
Don’t forget Caligula.
Bogus.
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dude.
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Jeffmcm, just because he’s no longer on Heroes (I didn’t know, what with the “stopped watching” and all) it doesn’t necessarily follow that he will move on to anything better. Whatever it is, I hope it’s not Clockwork Orange 2 where someone like Paul WS Anderson picks up the story from the 21st chapter that Kubrick left out…
Bogus.
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McDowells a character actor with one great role under his belt. A classic role that will live on for generations. Hes not hurting for quality work. Even in crap he always comes to play.
He does lots of mainstream supporting roles as well, in recent flicks such as IN GOOD COMPANY, HIDALGO, I SPY, etc so he’s obviously in demand.
You know something strange though folks, I always seem to remember his bizarre sadistic head-of-the-studio-meets-Chaplin turn in the Bruce Willis/James Garner flop SUNSET. He was chillingly effective in that – I must be one of the few fans of that Blake Edwards flick; Im a sucker for movies set in old hollywood.
even willis apologized for appearing in SUNSET.
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