I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.
Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting.
Television audiences are ruthless - look what happened to 'The Killing.'
Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them.
Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
I'm usually the character people love to hate, because I used to play bad girls all the time.
I think, to me, I was always taught you never approach any character as a villain. Every human being on earth really believes that they're doing the best thing. We all have our rationalizations.
So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who's supposed to be the 'big baddie,' it's so easy for them to become cliched.
I think the killers get far too much attention.
I think any time anybody sees the bad guy show emotion and you're not hitting the audience over the head, there's always a tinge of empathy for that individual.