S E355: "Yes, Caligula!": The Malcolm McDowell Interview

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Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Karen interviews legend of stage and screen, Malcolm McDowell. The two discuss Hollywood, the pandemic, Caligula, A Clockwork Orange and his latest role in The Big Ugly.

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the Karen Hunter show.
0:26.4	Thank you Karen.
0:27.3	The pleasure.
0:28.3	Listen, you don't know when your name came across the screen, you know, when they ask, who do you want? I was like,
0:35.0	Malcolm McDowell. And I'm going to tell you why. I'm going to tell you why. So I was 13 years old and I'm in Latin class and one of my classmates asked me on a Saturday if I wanted to go see a film and back in the day you had these big movie houses they were huge and beautiful and And so my mom, my mom picked her up
0:56.3	and drove us to this theater,
0:58.9	and the name of the movie was Caligula.
1:01.9	And I'm 13. I'm sitting in the theater, the opening scene, I'm like,
1:05.9	what the hell is going on? And that was...
1:09.7	A good history lesson. A good history lesson. Yes. Yes. Yes. So that was my introduction to you and you have not
1:16.8	disappointed ever since and I've been following your career. That is
1:20.4	unfortunate. That is unfortunate. The first time you see me you see my bare ass.
1:27.0	Yeah, yeah it was quite quite a feat sir, quite a feat. All right so tell me before we get into the big ugly, and that wasn't the big ugly back then, so let me just say, you know, you kept it tight, you kept it together.
1:38.5	No.
1:39.5	How are you doing during this pandemic? How are you, how are you COVID-ing? I've turned that into a verb.
1:45.0	Well, you know, listen, to be honest with you, it's really not that much different for me, except that I'm just not working, but I am doing voice overs and stuff.
1:58.5	So every week I do a few of those, because we have a little studio in town and you know the guys wiped
2:07.9	everything down I go in with the mask take it off do the thing and then leave so I can actually work but it's where you know the family my wife is here
2:20.1	and three boys back at he's 16 and then there's Finn he's 13 and shameless 11. So it's
2:31.1	being tough with them but we live right on a golf course. So they have suddenly become,
2:37.0	some suddenly become little golfers beyond belief wanting to go at 6 the morning you know and and just hang the whole day and play golf.
2:47.6	So you know we're very lucky.
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