Profile Marlon Brando: The Madness Of King Marlon Acting talents don't come bigger than Marlon Brando's. Nor do egos. For his latest pounds 2m role, he refused to act while the director was on set, wouldn't wear trousers, and delegated his publicity to his dog. The result? A few minutes of usable film. David Thomson laments a tragicomic decline

From: The Independent - London | Date: July 18, 2001| Author: David Thomson | Copyright information

Marlon Brando is 77 years old, and somewhere close to 350 pounds (that is, 25 stone). This is not a healthy or productive combination of numbers, and to judge from his few minutes of screen time in his new film, The Score, there is not much of energy or enthusiasm (let alone hope) left in the carcass of a once remarkable actor. There have been fat film people in the past - Sydney Greenstreet, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock - in whom weight never felt like a burden. Instead, it held the promis...

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