If you play an evil character, it’s gotta stick a little.

And if you’re a character-actor who always gets the evil role. If you play 100 evil guys. Then 100X moreso.

You get into the evil role. See the world through evil eyes and evil motivations.

And over time, It’s gotta bend your personality towards real evilness. Right?

I suppose you could google evil-character-actors. 20 years later, how many got arrested for something heinous.

What do you think?

EDIT

Put more generally : Can habits gained in one context bleed over into another context?

Yes.

Do they?

Possibly. With increasing probability as the habit becomes stronger. And there’s self-awareness to consider. And how much the habit clashes with the new context.

  • NPC@lemmy.world
    101·
    1 year ago

    I’m a chef. Sometimes I need to raise my voice at staff. Sometimes I need to be harsh and make snap decisions in the heat of service. I not always a nice guy then, but I have to be for my job. But when I get off, of when it’s calm in the restaurant I’m not at all like that. It’s been years since I’ve yelled outside of my job. Having to “play” someone I’m not to keep the place running is tiring and when I’m done I don’t want anything to do with that for the rest of the day.

    I imagine it’s the same way for actors. After a long day of playing the bad guy, I can totally see you want to be anything but that afterwards. Though, if you’re an asshole to begin with, you’ll be an asshole no matter what.

    P.s. Don’t go thinking I’m some sort of bully chef, last time I actually had to get mad and yell at someone at my job is when an intern tried to open a plastic jar by pointing a blade directly at their stomach.