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Malcolm McDowell on the Fun of Killing Kirk and Working with Nephew Alexander Siddig

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By GustavoLeao / 14:03, 13 June 2007 / People

DreamWatch posted a new interview with actor Malcolm McDowell, better know to Star Trek fans as Soran, the man who killed Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek Generations. McDowell now plays Mr Linderman in Heroes and Dr Loomis in the forthcoming remake of Halloween. Here are few excerpts from the interview.

Your role as Mr Linderman in Heroes is the latest in a long line of McDowell villains. Deep down, is there perhaps a little bit of evil inside you?


Any part you play always has a little bit of yourself in it, and of course I have a bit of the devil in me. Doesn't everyone? I just get paid to have fun with it! I enjoy it very much, and it's great fun getting to do away with Captain Kirk and so on. He'd had a good run! With this part particularly, the word ‘relish' comes to mind. The wonderful scenes I have with Adrian [Pasdar] were a pleasure, and I had a great time doing it. But listen, I don't only play heavies. I suppose it's just what I'm best known for.

What other projects are you working on at the moment?


I'm in London doing a movie called Doomsday with [DS9 actor] Alexander Siddig, who is my nephew and a very good actor. He told me they wanted me to do it, so I did. Next, I'm on my way to the Cannes Film Festival to show my tribute to the great director Lindsay Anderson, who was very important in my life, and a man I loved dearly. I can't believe they invited me to show it at Cannes. It's absolutely extraordinary for me, but there you are.


I'm also in a miniseries of War and Peace as Prince Bolkonsky, which is a wonderful part. I've no idea when that will be shown in the States, but they're going to screen it right through the night in Rome, the whole nine hours of it. It's a big Euro-pudding, with seven or eight countries involved. I've seen quite a bit of it and it's really quite wonderful. I do most of my scenes with Brenda Blethyn, who's terrific. I think it's quite a remarkable event and a beautiful production.

The full interview is here.



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RE: Loved SORAN | Report this post to moderator
By: JediFonger (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:49:56 on Jun 14, 2007

i agree as well. it remains TNG's BEST film because the film is actually about the crew and not just another expensive TV episode.

even wrath of kahn had incosistencies (chekov never met kahn, etc.). i dunno why people nitpick generation so much if good movie like kahn had that major glaring issue.

aaanyways, the sound design is good.

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RE: Loved SORAN by Glassman Cometh @ 10:13:52 on Jun 14

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By: Captain Patti (Odo's file, contact) @ 12:00:11 on Jun 14, 2007

Generations was an "ok" movie. The death of kirk was pointless to the story. There was no reason besides the hatred for the character by B&B,Moore and Paramount.

Spock's death in STII had meaning and a point. Kirks death in Generations wasn't necessary.

I for one would like to see the return of Kirk. Lord knows it would really give Trek a boost in the arm.

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RE: Loved SORAN by Glassman Cometh @ 13:52:40 on Jun 14
RE: Loved SORAN by Sam Cogley @ 13:19:36 on Jun 14
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       RE: Loved SORAN by Sam Cogley @ 14:25:37 on Jun 14
RE: Loved SORAN by GustavoLeao @ 12:14:06 on Jun 14
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By: Poetwarrior78 (Odo's file, contact) @ 11:04:18 on Jun 14, 2007

I loved Generations the first two times I saw it (in theatres), but when it occurred to me that Kirk and Picard could have gone back to any time prior to Soran's missile launch, the whole thing fell apart for me. It just didn't make sense that they would choose that particular time, given that they could obviously have gone to any other time. A plot whole like that is just too big to ignore, for me.

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RE: Loved SORAN by Glassman Cometh @ 11:39:26 on Jun 14
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By: GustavoLeao (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 15:22:42 on Jun 13, 2007

I agree. As I said here before, I love Generations. I love Carson's directing, the awesome score of Dennis McCarthy, wonderful FX by ILM, and great, great acting from everybody, specially Shatner and Stewart. A truly wonderful movie.

Gustavo

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