I think the trick to playing villains is that you can't play them as if they know that they're villains, otherwise it becomes some sort of mustache-twirling caricature!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Villains are fun to play.
I've played a lot of villains. The villains are always fun because you can just go fractionally bigger than life. It's always a grey area because you don't want to end up mustache-twirling and making them a little false, but you always get to play a little more, whereas the lead guy has to be a little more straight.
You don't play villains like they are villains. You play them like you know exactly where they are coming from. Which hopefully you do.
Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.
I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.
Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes.
I don't play just villains. I like to have parts that are not simply villains.
I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.
The thing about villains is most people play them with the shifty eyes and all that, whereas I play them as good guys. 'Cos everyone thinks they're a goodie, don't they?
I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or get inside heads that are interestingly broken.