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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

John Malkovich

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

There aren't many actors who can straddle the worlds of high art and blockbusters as deftly as John Malkovich. His latest project is The New Look, a TV show on Apple TV +. The series takes place in Nazi-occupied France and tells the story of how France's fashion industry navigated a terrifying, inhuman reality. John Malkovich joins us to chat about The New Look and his love of fashion. He also talks to us about his upbringing and early years as a performer. Plus, we also get into one of our most favorite scenes of his from the film Burn After Reading.

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Bullseye with Jesse Thorne is a production of maximum fun

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and is distributed by NPR. It's bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorne. There aren't many actors who can straddle the

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worlds of high art and blockbusters as deftly as my guest John Malkovich.

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This is a guy who, I knew, he has started an acclaimed Broadway rendition of death of a salesman.

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He has been the star of countless indie dramas.

1:24.3

Perhaps his greatest role was in Conair and he was even in a call of duty game and

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there could be no greater example of that genre of actor, great in everything. Distinctive, compelling, unforgettable. You don't have to think too long and hard about why back in 1999,

1:45.0

Spike Jones and Charlie Kaufman decided to make a bonkers brilliant comedy called

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Being John Malkovich. Like, I don't know, if it was being Dermot Mulroney

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or something, it might have been good, but it wouldn't have been the same.

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Malkovich's latest project is a TV show called The New Look on Apple TV Plus. It's about two of

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Malkovich's greatest passions, high-stakes drama and

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