Bad to the bone: why actors find it so hard to leave their darkest roles behind
by Luke Holland from World news | The Guardian on (#5B2MA)
Even the biggest stars are often defined by their turns as villains. Perhaps they should embrace the evil
A quick experiment: Anthony Hopkins is one of history's most celebrated thesps, a star of stage and screen for more than 60 years. Picture him. What do you see? Is it John Quincy Adams in Amistad? Frederick Treves in The Elephant Man? Or is it Hannibal Lecter, leering through plexiglass, theth-theth-thething into the camera? If you said it's anything other than that last one, then congratulations. Why not pour yourself a nice glass of chianti to wash down your LIES.
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