What was it like making A Clockwork Orange for director Stanley Kubrick?
AC: He’s A tough guy to work with. It’s good working with him, because you know that visually the film is going to be good, I had also read the book and had never understood why it hadn’t been made into a film. Then I discovered that Stanley had bought it years before and nobody wanted to touch it. Stanley entered into a deal with Warner Bros. that he would do two films for them, and one had to be ACO. Stanley can be difficult – especially difficult, I think, for women. He’s not entirely sympathetic. His original idea for casting that film called for an actress to go into an empty office, take their clothes off, and do a photograph. And they would be taped. I told him to go stuff it. “Goodbye, Stanley, I’m not doing those kinds of interviews!” And they would have been taped, so I said, no thank you, Im not having this going around Wardour Street, and I said to hell with it. I was off doing a play at Greenwich and Stanley did not like the lady who was eventually cast. After two