Malcolm McDowell is pointing to the end of the world out his window. The actor is speaking to The Big Issue from a hotel in St John’s, the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador, facing his phone towards the harbour. This is the island that reaches so far into the Atlantic that flat earthers think the edge of everything is somewhere nearby.
“Isn’t it amazing? It’s a great place,” McDowell enthuses. “All around this coast there’s craggy inlets and these fishing boats, I mean, the cod literally jump on the line. Absolutely my favourite place I’ve been to make any movie or television show.”
Over half a century after his two massively big breaks, in Lindsay Anderson’s if… and Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, McDowell has close to 300 acting credits, most not quite as memorable as his debut double.
“All careers have peaks and valleys, it doesn’t matter who you are,” he says. “But I always wanted to be and always thought of
