Apr 1, 2014
They're great parts! These are the parts audiences love to hate! First of all, you don't play a villain. You play a person who is doing things they think are quite justified. It's not one thing that makes a person do something. It's a lifetime of experience and motivations and relationships and terrors. We too often, conveniently and cutely, try to label everything so that we understand it, and there are things we'll never fucking understand. Ever. All we can do is just watch them.
Kevin Spacey, on undertaking dark roles
