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Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.

I love to see heroes who fuel some kind of moral furnace inside them, who are driven to take on the evils of the world, despite the fact that the evils of the world are more powerful than them. And essentially can never be defeated, but they refuse to bow down. And in order to enjoy that aspect of the hero, you've got to put them through hell.

Heroes aren't supposed to do bad things. That's what villains are for. So either the good supersedes the bad, or the bad makes it impossible to remember the good. We don't like it when such duality exists in one person. We don't want to know our heroes are human.

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.

People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.

I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil.

If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.