Book description
Marlon Brando – the Wild One. For more than thirty years, a star who has resolutely refused to behave like a star. Mean and moody, acting up and dressing down, he exudes a sense of brooding power, of anger that might explode at any moment.
A mass of contradictions: a sex symbol and and overweight sob. A superb actor who can yet amble and mumble his way through a part in a throwaway caricature of himself. A man loud in his demands for privacy and an Oscar winner who refused the award.
An actor who has described acting as an "empty and useless profession", his films have ranged from the great and memorable – On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Godfather – through the scandalous – Last Tango in Paris – to the memorably disastrous – Mutiny on the Bounty.
Marlon Brando – a man and an actor who will always loom larger than life, even when, like Colonel Kutz in Apocalypse Now, he has retreated from it.
