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07:40 / 01.03.06

I'm interviewing Malcolm McDowell this evening. Anyone got any questions they'd like me to ask him?

07:46 / 01.03.06

Y'know when you made Tank Girl, right, and Ice T was stood there dressed up like a kangaroo, was there ever a point when you thought maybe you didn't actually need the money?

ONLY NICE THINGS

07:46 / 01.03.06

Would you say that your finest hour was Tank Girl or Star Trek: Generations?

07:52 / 01.03.06

Has anyone ever made you blush?

07:52 / 01.03.06

Y'know, Haus, depending on how good-humoured he seems when the interview kicks off, I was actually going to tell him that my favourite movies of his were Tank Girl and Star Trek, and I couldn't decide between them....

08:12 / 01.03.06

Now don´t forget he was Admiral Sir Geoffrey Tolwyn in the Wing Commander Video Game series ["The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."]. He worked alongside Mark Hamill! You could ask him, how it was, working with this SF legend.

10:21 / 01.03.06

Have you ever written a book, Mr McDowell?

10:25 / 01.03.06

I like you to ask him about what he feels is the legacy of If and a Clockwork Orange. I'm teaching both to 17 year olds at the moment. Does he feel his career is overshadowed by either of these? How does he feel looking back on them now?

ONLY NICE THINGS

10:27 / 01.03.06

Or, to put it another way, was Colombine basically his fault?

11:01 / 01.03.06

Do you ever get mistaken for planet of the Apes star Roddy McDowell?

11:04 / 01.03.06

What's your relationship with Alexander Siddig like? Were you an influence in his career? Did he influence the decision to cast you in Star Trek: Generations? Do the two of you swap ideas/compare notes/and want to work together? Do you think his politically outspoken nature has helped win him roles in movies like Kingdom of Heaven and Syriana?

Malcolm McDowell is Alexander Siddig/Siddig El Fadil's uncle.

11:16 / 01.03.06

Ooh, that's interesting. Thanks.

Hattie's Kitchen

11:18 / 01.03.06

Sax, I'd love it if you could ask him about making "O Lucky Man", and whether he thinks the mutant medical experiments carried out in that film were scarily predictive of the whole genetic mutation and animal-to-human organ transplants being carried out today.

11:26 / 01.03.06

Malcolm, take a moment, but, do you think you beat a dog in a fight, you know, if you had to?

11:27 / 01.03.06

That was my closing question, actually. Like the genetics stuff, Hattie.

Regrettable Juvenilia

11:34 / 01.03.06

"Do you consider Marc Warren of TV's 'Hustle' to be your rightful heir, or a risible pretender?"

11:35 / 01.03.06

Or bastard son, perhaps?

11:53 / 01.03.06

Could you tell him I'm f**king coming!

Which will combine the annoyance factors of quoting a film at him, and also of mistaking him for Terrance Stamp.

Which he'll looooove.

Whisky Priestess

13:15 / 01.03.06

Can you ask him in what ways his friendship and sometime colloboration with Vivienne Westwood have been an influence on his work?

Regrettable Juvenilia

13:16 / 01.03.06

Not to mention her nephew, Tim.

13:26 / 01.03.06

Does he think that Richard Hell will ever rejoin Televison, and was Punk an American or English thing.....

Bubblegum Death

14:35 / 01.03.06

What was it like working with Rhea Perlman in the sitcom classic, Pearl ?

Spyder Todd 2008

16:39 / 01.03.06

Oo! Ok, I know this sounds ridiculous, but I am 100% on this. So, Sax, if you ask him this, please feel free to blame me entirely. But it would be super awesome if you did ask him this for me.

See, about 4 months ago I was writing a little screenplay for a movie a friend of mine and I were shooting. And I decided that the narrator of the story would be the governor, but I needed someone awesome for that. So, I went to the one source that has never ceased to amaze me- Malcolm McDowell. Imagine it- Malcolm McDowell, governor of Illinois. It was brilliant!
So anyway, this got me thinking- would he ever consider running for an elected office like that? Preferably where I live?

Also, would he like to open a casino with me?

Man… the more I think about that first one, the weirder it sounds. But the second one is solid.
You should see if he’ll join Barbelith. Also, tell him the episode of South Park he did is one of my favorites, if only for him. I envy thee, Sax. It’s scary how much I envy you.

16:50 / 01.03.06

Malcolm's such a crap name. Would he rather have been called Mondriaan? Maybe Magwitch? Murphy? Murphy Macdowell is the name of an Oscar winner.

18:36 / 01.03.06

Malcom, do people find you as frightening in real life as you are in your movies? Please, don't hurt me.

pointless & uncalled for

18:40 / 01.03.06

If you had to kick Speilberg in the head, would you use the left foot or the right foot?

18:51 / 01.03.06

What did you think of Hinterland?

19:20 / 01.03.06

Gangster No 1 ; How did you feel about being credited as Gangster 55? Did you feel Paul Bettany nailed the nuances of the shared character?

20:17 / 01.03.06

do you dress to the right, or the left?

(bill clinton, y'know, starts right, then....

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and yeah, xoc, what did mal think of hinterland, huh?

20:36 / 01.03.06

Would you like to have a quick look at this screenplay that I happen to have in my pocket? It's called Hinterland: The Movie. It's just like Brokeback Mountain but without the sheep and the hills and the bumming.

06:49 / 02.03.06

Xoc, if you knew how close I actually was to whoring myself in that way, you'd never respect me again.

Fortunately, his cell phone went and it was someone offering him a job, so both our blushes were spared.

But, on the whole, a top bloke. Far more down to earth and less scary than I anticipated.

And, Dead Megatron, he's coming for you.

13:17 / 02.03.06

What's he been doing lately?

13:21 / 02.03.06

Just wrapped a movie he's been shooting in North Carolina which he described as "a cross between a John Grisham thriller and a Civil War epic" and as we were wrapping up the interview his mobile rang and he said: "Got to go - someone's offering me a job".

Also starred in a 2004 movie called Evilenko, loosely based on the Russian cannibalistic killer Chikatilo, which had either limited or zero release in the West but is getting a bigger release on the arthouse circuit this year, I think. He's also got a movie called Funny Farm slated for release this year.

19:10 / 02.03.06

From the look of his bio on imdb, he doesn't have a lot of spare time. Oh Lucky Man, to have such an employable face. I bet he's bragging to his friends in the movie world, right now, about meeting the author of the cult classic: Hinterland.

Yeah, Anjelina, he looked just like his pictures. No, Heath, he hasn't written any cowboy stories. Yes, Jake, he knows Xoc. Said he was a close personal friend, actually...

14:37 / 03.03.06

I thought Jake refused to talk about you since the incident, Xoc.

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