"Malcolm McDowell"
Is "EVILenko"
by Tim Nasson, Wild About Movies' publisher
February 20, 2006
New York City – It may have taken the sixty-three year old Golden Globe Best Actor nominee Malcolm McDowell thirty years to get his big break – “A Clockwork Orange” – but since 1971 and “A Clockwork Orange,” McDowell has appeared in no less than 100 films.
While McDowell has not yet eclipsed the role of Alex de Large that made him famous in “A Clockwork Orange,” (Stanley Kubrick’s seventh feature length film), he does not shy away from controversial and stomach turning roles.
One of his most recent films, “Evilenko,” shot on location in Kiev, is nothing less than a real-life horror film.
“I never intended to make ‘Evilenko,’” reveals McDowell, recently, in New York City where he was promoting the DVD release of the film in which he plays a cannibal. It’s not your “Silence of the Lambs” cannibal movie, either. This is a true story about a monster, a serial killer who killed and ate more than 50 children in the old Soviet Union.
“It is a repulsive story,” remarks McDowell, “And I never thought it would get made. But a friend of mine wrote the movie and asked me years ago if I would star in the film if he got financing for it. I never in a million years thought he would get the film financed and agreed. I guess he had the last laugh. I am a man of my word and couldn’t very well back out.”
McDowell, a native of Leeds, England, since filming “Evilenko” in 2003 has been busier than ever. “I worked on ‘Entourage’ [the HBO series] for a half dozen episodes and that was a lot of fun. It didn’t involve eating any children, to say the least.”
Which brings us to the question: ‘How did McDowell research his role and get into character as ‘Evilenko?’
“The only thing I could do was read up on the creature on which the movie is based. I certainly couldn’t go around eating children to get in to character. I have been acting long enough to not allow the subject matter get to me, or to bring it home with me, no matter the horrific nature.”
McDowell, who was married to Mary Steenburgen for more than a decade (and with whom he has two children), is now married – and has been for fifteen years - to someone not involved in the movie business, with whom he has one child and lives in Los Angeles.
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