People come up to me and say, 'You are such a great bad guy.' The fact is that the antagonist in a movie is usually the most fun to play. You can stretch the role and do so much with it.
My character in 'Saaho' is completely contrasting to my character in 'Baahubali,' and I am quite excited about it.
Every significant book at Marvel had its key antagonist. 'The Fantastic Four' had Doctor Doom; 'Spider-Man' had Doc Ock, among others; Thor had Loki, if not Surtur. Without Magneto, the X-Men had nobody.
Donna Mills came on the show as a female antagonist, about a year before, so now they wanted to have a male antagonist. I was cast as a Senator to shake things up.
I don't understand when people say character actors. You either have the protagonist or the antagonist and I've played both. It's an actor's role to play a character. Does that mean that main stream heroes and heroines are characterless?
I would assume most people hate my character. But I'm hoping that I'm the character you love to hate.
We want our villains and antagonists to have distinct motivations.
The whole concept of ECW was that the biggest star of the promotion was the promotion itself. It didn't matter if a persona was designed to elicit cheers or boos. It didn't matter if someone was an antagonist or protagonist. The whole concept was to fight for the honor of the cause. The cause was ECW itself.
It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad.
If I have several bad guys and I only want to end up with one of them, then I have to decide which one I want in the end. And normally it's the one who is the most interesting talker.
If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you.
A villain number is a very valuable thing to have, but if you look at most musicals, one way or another there's an antagonist number.
Personally, I believe that playing the lead antagonist is always better than a character artiste, whose weightage isn't much.
It is a big deal to play the antagonist in a Rohit Shetty film.
Nikolaj [Coster-Waldau] plays one of the ugliest villains. We had to create such a horrible guy, because he is the bad guy in the [The Other Woman] movie. We took him as far pathologically as possible.
One of the greatest things about playing a villain is people wondering when he's going to make his comeback.
Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.
Somebody has to wear the black hat and give the audience someone to shake their fists at. They want someone to hate. And if that's what you want to pay me to do, I'm happy to do it!
