Vanities
April 2007 Issue

In Character: John Malkovich

The actor tranforms into an ingénue, a vile construction worker, and a drug dealer.

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Malkovich as ingénue; hardhat; dealer.

Left: You're an ingénue actress, new to Hollywood. Your agent has just called to say you've been chosen for a role in a big movie … as George Clooney's love interest.

Center: You're a construction worker having lunch with your buddies on the street in front of the job, calling out to a sexy woman passing by, "Hey, hon, wanna see what's in my lunchbox?"

Right: You're a mid-level drug dealer with a big payment due to a Mob boss, getting the news from one of your street runners that he lost the big coke stash in, "like, a weird gust of wind."

Photographer __Howard Schatz'__s book In Character: Actors Acting (Bulfinch, 2006) was the forerunner to this ongoing Vanities feature. View a portfolio of Howard Schatz's work.