Cast and crew reflect on the seminal film which launched careers and ushered new cinematic voices.
Once he warms to it, director Spike Jonze‘s comments on photos taken during production of Being John Malkovich, his feature film debut, become uniquely revealing (via Criterion):
John Malkovich shares his response to receiving Charlie Kaufman’s script:
Malkovich also opines on and the film’s prescience about parasocial relationships with public figures in the age of the internet, discusses the real world implications of playing this fictional version of himself, and reveals that in real life he didn’t even know his “best friend” Charlie Sheen “whatsoever”:
Further Viewing
In the years since, Spike Jonze has continued to explore themes of interiority, frustrated emotion, and of course imagination, across both feature films and commercials…
… and long the way, created a ‘romance’ which is also one of the most accurate movies about AI, Her (2014)