A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.
There are good characters and bad characters.
When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else's point of view, whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.
For me, especially with the villain, it's not very interesting to write a guy who is just 100% bad.
I've never seen any character I've ever played as a bad guy or a good guy.
In most shows, there's usually a hero or a protagonist, and even if there are multiple heroes or protagonists, most shows try and make it so you really always know who's the good guy and who's the bad guy.
To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy.
I feel like, sometimes, characters that are just good and nice can seem boring or uninteresting.
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.