Exclusive: Malcolm McDowell to Guest-Star on The Mentalist
We see a serious bad guy in Patrick Jane's future: Malcolm McDowell will guest-star on an upcoming episode of
The Mentalist, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.
McDowell, best known for playing nihilist Alex in
A Clockwork Orange, will play the leader of a twisted religious cult in which Jane (Simon Baker) gets entangled. Series creator Bruno Heller describes the character as a "great heavy."
"He seems to have his sinister tentacles in every pie, which is really mixing horrible metaphors, but he's that kind of guy," Heller tells TVGuide.com with a laugh. "We're very lucky to get someone as great as Malcolm McDowell to play that."
McDowell, who recently starred in Rob Zombie's two
Halloween reboots, recurred on
Heroes as the mysterious Linderman during the first three seasons and on
Entourage as Ari Gold's former mentor/nemesis Terrence. Fun fact: He played the Ricardo Montalban role in the short-lived 1998
Fantasy Island reboot.
McDowell's episode of
The Mentalist is slated to air April 29.
New episodes return on March 4 at 10/9c.