What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think what's exciting about playing a villain - particularly a villain who's totally unapologetic about their evil intentions - is that it's not anything remotely like what you get to do in real life. You're never allowed to be evil and not feel bad about it afterwards, let alone be evil, period.
I think anyone loves to play a character that is either evil to a certain extent or has a real definable character flaw. Those are always really fun, and, I think, funny.
'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.
In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
I think everybody likes to play the villain. They're always much more interesting characters.
Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.
The evil within the fantasy genre tends to be threatening to the heroes within the story, but not to the reader - or not to the viewer, in the case of cinema - and that's why I think it's more palatable and something that is more easily embraced for a lot of people.
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
It's as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.
The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.