John Malkovich makes rare comments about infamous affair with Michelle Pfeiffer

John Malkovich is looking back on his infamous affair with Michelle Pfeiffer.

The actor, 71, opened up about the romance he had with his “Dangerous Liaisons” co-star while they were both married on the Sept. 3 episode of Bella Freud’s “Fashion Neurosis” podcast.

“It’s not something I’ve ever really talked about,” Malkovich said.

“Put it in this way, in the work I do normally, you make emotional bonds with people very quickly,” he explained. “That’s part of the work. Very rarely, those bonds extend beyond the work.”

Malkovich described Pfeiffer, 67, as “someone I valued greatly as a colleague, was great fun and moving, and with me, incredibly fair.”

“And I certainly wasn’t,” he admitted. “I think I’ve learned over the course of my life that a great colleague is actually rarer than anything. And when that relationship becomes more than collegial or more than a friendship, even a profound friendship, then at least in my experience, and it might be my particular psychology or stupidity or ineptness or all of the above… you lose a great colleague.”