John Malkovich is still finding new ways to be John Malkovich

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Set us as preferred John Malkovich has an affectionate habit of warning Nicoletta Peyran, his partner of more than three decades, about the various dangers that might befall her.“I like to send my wife texts of disastrous things that could happen to her if she doesn’t listen,” Malkovich says over Zoom from a hotel in Boston, near his home outside the city.Folded into a couch, occasionally running a hand over his bald head, he speaks slowly, his familiar voice carrying an undercurrent of dry amusement.

“This morning’s was a man being attacked by an octopus.He couldn’t get the octopus off his face.”The only guide you need for fall entertainment.At 72, after well over 100 film and TV roles alongside an acclaimed stage career, the actor is at a point when it’s natural to contemplate how things might end.

He has already outlived his father and three of his siblings, all of whom died in their 50s, and has lost many friends and colleagues as well.“Death is very much always present at my age — time really waits for no one,” Malkovich says.“But I don’t have it on my mind all the time.

There’s no point in thinking about it.It won’t help anything at all.

You should avoid it all you want.But the octopus is going to be on your face.”Somehow, the whole thing feels very John Malkovich.That same sense of existential absurdity runs through Malkovich’s newest film, “Wild Horse Nine,” which will open in theaters Nov.

6 and provides the actor with his juiciest film role in years — one that awards prognosticators are already whispering could land him his first Oscar nomination in 33 years.Malkovich, who earned his previous nominations playing an embittered blind boarder in the 1984 Depression-era drama “Places in the Heart” and a would-be presidential assassin in the 1993 thriller “In the Line of ...