You Can’t Believe Everything You Read Online

By Busty St Clair on July 20, 2007 at 10:57 AM

Alex de Large

British actor Malcolm McDowell wants to set the record straight.

Stanley Kubrick did not give him an irrational and long-lasting fear of eye drops while making A Clockwork Orange.


The star played Alex de Large in the controversial 1971 film, with his violent character forced to continually watch a montage of human atrocities with his eyes prised open with clamps in a bid to “reform” him.

Rumours abound McDowell now has a fear of eye drops after Kubrick forced him to keep his eyes open for 24 hours, but the actor insists the oft-quoted trivia is unfounded.

He says, “No (it’s not true)! I wish they would take that off the f**king internet!”

Malcolm, are you saying that we can’t believe everything we read on the internet? Who knew?

PS: Ironically, you can believe this. No really, you can.

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