Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People can be really mean - they say the most vicious things.
It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics are just part of that special soul of that human being.
In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them.
You have to create characters - certainly in series TV - who people engage with. They don't have to be nice; you don't have to agree with them. But they do have to be compulsively watchable and believable and human, and you want to know what happens to them.
I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg.
People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.
People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.
You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.
I'm attracted to polarizing characters who upend the civility of life.
No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't expect people to hate them.