John Malkovich, a world-weary CIA man in ‘Wild Horse Nine,’ prefers life on the road

In Martin McDonagh’s “Wild Horse Nine,” John Malkovich plays an itinerant CIA officer, Chris, weary from his travels. But Chris has got nothing on Malkovich’s miles.

Over his 50-year career, Malkovich has performed live in 47 countries, by his count. He’s played a serial killer in Hamburg. He’s directed “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” in Paris. He’s done George Bernard Shaw in Bulgaria.

“It’s probably not by an accident that the first film I ever developed was called ‘The Accidental Tourist,’” Malkovich says, chuckling. “It just kind of happened and I went along with it. It’s a big world.”

Malkovich is best known for his screen credits, including “Empire of the Sun,” “Of Mice and Men,” “In the Line of Fire,” “Being John Malkovich” and the new “Wild Horse Nine,” in which he plays a dying CIA man on Easter Island who, after a lifetime of toppling governments and carrying out assassinations,