John Malkovich gets candid about aging in new film ‘Wild Horse Nine’

TORONTO – In the dark action comedy “Wild Horse Nine,” John Malkovich plays an aging man facing his own mortality and sins of the past. Which isn’t a stretch for the acting legend.

“At my age, that’s not very difficult,” Malkovich, 72, deadpanned after the film’s Sept. 14 premiere at Toronto International Film Festival.

The latest from writer and director Martin McDonagh (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) arrives in theaters Nov. 6 and casts Malkovich and Sam Rockwell, 57, as CIA operatives and close pals Chris and Lee, two guys who have dirtied their hands in global events. (And one rather infamous day in particular.)

In a tale set against the 1973 Chilean coup, the two guys take a vacation from destabilizing a democracy and head to Easter Island to look at the “big heads.” While there, they face trust issues with each other and their bosses, who’d like to keep a major national secret from going public, and also people trying to take shots at them.

McDonagh has done the buddy thing before, with Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as contract killers in “In Bruges” and them together again as frenemies in “Banshees.” “You don't want to repeat exactly what…

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