![]() ![]() ‘You won’t feel a thing.’ Well, famous last words. ‘You’ll have no problem, your eyes will be anesthetized,’ he said. Talking about an actual injury he sustained on set, McDowell said, “And of course this doctor comes over and he’s the guy in the movie. Malcolm McDowell: It’s a ‘Shame’ There Are Fewer Character-Driven Films Amid Marvel Reign He goes, ‘What do you think?’ ‘What do you mean what do I think? It’s an eye operation going on.’ He said: ‘I’d like you to do that.’ I went: ‘What? There’s no way! No, no, no.’ But he already had a doctor from Moorfields coming over to talk to me about it.’” showed me a picture of this and I went, ‘Oh yeah? Wow’. ![]() “ was a control freak, without a doubt, on everything. “One of the electricians said: ‘He’s tryin’ to kill you Malc, he’s tryin’ to kill you,’” McDowell said. In an expansive interview with NME, McDowell talked about the “torture” of making the movie, in which he stars as ultraviolent droog leader Alex DeLarge. (Look no further than Shelley Duvall’s hair falling out in chunks on the set of “The Shining,” as seen in his daughter Vivian’s making-of documentary.) And while Malcolm McDowell has never minced words about the toll making “ A Clockwork Orange” took on his soul, the movie is getting renewed appraisal thanks to a re-release timed to the film’s 50th anniversary. Stanley Kubrick was notorious for his, well, exacting methods on set. ![]()
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