Scary, unhairy John Malkovich is defiantly anti-star material. After
achieving super-villain status in Con Air, he snubbed the Hollywood
system to appear in half a dozen European movies, enhancing his egghead
reputation by directing Restoration romp The Libertine on stage and
screen, and drawling camply in French in Proust flick Time Regained.
Acclaimed for roles in Dangerous Liaisons and Empire Of The Sun,
Malkovich specialises in seductively smiling villains (Sheltering
Sky, Mulholland Falls), and 1999 saw him Being John Malkovich, sending
himself up as cinema’s unlikeliest sex symbol.
