It earned three Oscar nominations and countless fans but Spike Jonze’s 1999 film “Being John Malkovich” could not initially count John Malkovich among them.
Considered a cult classic, the movie takes place within the mind of Malkovich. Now, Malkovich discusses the film in a new interview, telling NME, when he was initially given Charlie Kaufman’s script, he wanted to direct the film himself with someone else as the famous subject.
The actor says he and Kaufman discussed needing a subject with “a quality of unknowability” to which Malkovich replied: “I don’t know what that means.
I don’t think anybody is a fixed, knowable thing.” RELATED: John Malkovich Calls Cancel Culture ‘Toxic’: ‘What’s Funny Yesterday Becomes Illegal Today’ He
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