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Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out.

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!

I understand being the villain is what people like. People play to that. They want to know about the villain.

I find the trick to playing a villain is that you can't be bad for the sake of being bad. It has to be rooted in some sort of heartbreak.

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.

Villains are fun to play.

Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain.

I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.

It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it.

If you are supposed to be villainous and have some sort of agenda, I like the idea of delivering that kind of character in a perfectly well-mannered way.