The British actor was reported missing on 13 January after he failed to return from a hike in the Mount Baldy region of California. Malkovich, who first met Sands on the set of 1984's The Killing Fields addressed his co-star and friend's disappearance at the press conference for their new movie, Seneca - On the Creation of Earthquakes, at the Berlin International Film Festival on Monday. "Julian and I were very, very close. I'm a godfather to his first son from his first marriage to Sarah, who I know very well…”