Word: cusack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John Cusack: Yes, I'm Mr. Malkovich's attorney...
...think John Cusack can field this...
...wrestlers in this film, ostensibly, are Craig and Lotte Schwartz (Cameron Diaz and John Cusack). You'd scarcely know that it was either of these actors just from looking at the images; the photogenic stars have been outfitted for the film with the scraggliest wigs, worst make-up, and dowdiest clothes in greater New York City. They look awful, and it looks fantastic. You can practically savor Diaz's joy at proving that she's a "real" actress and not just another pretty face. Craig and Lotte are an absurd, sexless married couple - pet store junkie and street puppeteer - fighting...
...greatest toy the movie has to play with is the participation of real-life actor John Malkovich, playing himself with perversity and panache. The film brings him into the plot with characteristic audacity; Cusack discovers a secret door at work that leads directly into the inside of Malkovich's brain. He becomes famous Malkovich for fifteen minutes (get it?), and is then spit out onto the side of the New Jersey Turnpike. It is to the film's credit that this bizarre, supernatural turn of events doesn't jar the logical tone of the movie at all. Getting inside Malkovich...
...glow of his meaty supporting role acting in Three Kings. The producer Michael Stipe is also the frontman for R.E.M.--and, incidentally, likes to wear sparkly eyeshadow. Curlyheaded screenwriter Charlie Kaufman doubled as the executive producer of the film (and has a slew of strange projects in development). John Cusack likes to direct himself. Cameron Diaz likes to change the color of her hair - for the interview, long brunette tresses, in case you wondered. And then there's the real John Malkovich himself. No, he isn't quite as creepy in person. Well, almost...