Shop Talk Actors : Poll: Would you rather play the hero, villain, or side character in a movie?

hero

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Hero’s love interest

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Side character

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Villain

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Villain henchman

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Good talk.

Villain
They lowkey make the alotta sense

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I don’t ever leave my room

Yeah. Villains always have rational plans but irrational motivations. On paper, they’d win.

It’s often only through dumb luck the good guy pulls through.

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Good talk.

Villain.

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A Saturday night special is an EVERYDAY special.

I'll be the MacGuffin.

Walter Brennan had the best reply to this question.

He preferred second billing as a character actor. If the movie bombs, no one will say Brennan's movie bombed. They will say, "Cooper's movie bombed."

Villain would be my first choice, but I'd be content as a side character just to be in the film.

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And This, Too, Shall Pass Away

I prefer to mix it up but tend to lean more towards the villain role because fuck people.

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Keep on smiling!

I like it. Start as a hero, become a villain, or vice versa. These make for the most interesting characters in fiction.

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Good talk.

a villain would be so much more fun to play and also probably easier. it’s easy to act crazy af

i’d probs wanna be an interesting side character with sage advice that either helps the protagonist grow along their arc or tries to evoke some sort of emotion out of the antagonist and then gets set on fire and thrown off a building into a horde of leprous cannibals

I’d be cool with being a boba fett type. The potential for spin-offs is unlimited. You’d always have work, your own action figures, plus you’re dark and mysterious. The ladies would love it

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I feel like a lot of the villains in stories would be good guys irl. Take Satan for example. In the Bible, how many times has Satan killed or gotten people to kill? Now how many has Yahweh?

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except Satan was originally an agent of god, was he not? I’ve read the story changed many times with different translations and iterations of Christianity.

I grew up thinking the story was, Lucifer genuinely rebelled and was beaten and “became” Satan, sorta like anakin an ddarth Vader. Pretty sure in some iterations, this progression becomes muddled and Satan is arguably a different entity or the same entity, but in service to god. The tempting angel. You see this is the story of Job, which if I recall is the guy who Satan and god place a bet on to see if he will renounce god after his son Is sacrificed.

Really it would make sense for god to comprise both good and evil. It’s all in the text; man is created in the likeness of god, ergo both god and man are capable of true evil and true “good.” Satan, meanwhile, is traditionally purely evil, with his rebellious nature framed as fighting against oppression of the LORD; in reality, Satan is a narcissistic and greedy, malevolent entity, whose intent is to force mankind toward self destruction. There is no noble, beneficial motivation at play; Abrahamic god is the better of the two.

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Duh🙄

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Well, this is a tomb. I'll make them feel at home

Lara Croft is a great side piece; you are not Lara Croft

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Good talk.

And you ain't "vlad"

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Well, this is a tomb. I'll make them feel at home

I am whatever you say I am. If I wasn’t, why would I say I am. In the paper, the news, every day I am. Sam, I am.

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Good talk.

You're a moron

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Well, this is a tomb. I'll make them feel at home

At least he doesn't look like a blob fish.

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My password is password.

How cruel of you.

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My password is password.

Side character