"To play the villain" means to portray or act as the bad or evil character in a story or situation.
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He's having the time of his
life playing the villain, and his performance left me even more convinced he's one of the major new movie stars of our time.
He joins Chris Evans (Human Torch / Captain America), Peter Dinklage (X-Men's Bolivar Trask and a character in «Infinity War»), and actor Josh Brolin
who plays the villain in not only «Infinity War,» but this summer's «Deadpool 2» as well.
Absent was their co-star Michael Shannon, who many thought deserved his third chance at Best Supporting Actor
for playing the villain in this year's most - nominated film.
I showed clips of both of these movies to the young
actors playing the villains of our movie and they responded with terrifying dead eyed zeal.
«You would look at the room and the Dora Milaje were training one way, Chadwick was training another way, Lupita was training another way, Letitia was training another way, and Michael B. Jordan [who
plays villain Erik Killmonger] was training another way, and we each had different folks we were working with,» she explains.
Branagh is also
playing the villain with Keira Knightley as the love interest, Kevin Costner as Ryan's mentor and Colm Feore in a supporting role, too.
Jake Gyllenhaal is set to
play villain Mysterio in the next «Spider - Man» movie.The 37 - year - old actor has reportedly won the race to portray the antagonist opposite Tom Holland who is returning as the webslinger in his second standalone film in the...
A couple weeks ago, Chris Hemsworth while promoting his film In The Heart of The Sea was asked which one of his Huntsman co-stars he'd like to
see play a villain in Thor: Ragnarok.
While Hugo Weaving has given no indication that he'll be returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the Red Skull, he did
enjoy playing the villain for these reasons.
Ray Winstone, who
often plays villains, is one of the best actors now at work in movies (see him in «Sexy Beast,» «Ripley's Game,» «Last Orders»).
France's bright new star, Marion Cotillard, fresh
from playing the villain in The Dark Knight Rises, is here a killer whale trainer who has lost her legs to one of her students.
But Mr. Stallone wants to be taken seriously in this boring film in which Eric Roberts
plays a villain named James Munroe.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jordan's role remains undisclosed but it's believed that he could be
playing the villain against Chadwick Boseman's titular hero.
In a recent interview, Toby Kebbell, who
plays villain Doctor Doom in the movie, says that his character will have a very 21st century backstory, and won't be named Victor von Doom at all.
I am fed up with the gorgeous and talented Bryce Dallas Howard always
playing villains now and being typecast after her roles in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, The Help and 50/50.
Green brings a smouldering sensuality and fragility to her Bond girl, who saves Bond's life on more than one occasion, while
Mikkelsen plays his villain extremely low key and Dame Judi brings her usual dry wit and gravitas to the role of M.
When the Monmouth County SPCA noticed one of its available cats resembled the actor who
played villain Kylo Ren in the most recent Star Wars film, they quickly renamed him «Kylo Ren» and hit Instagram with his photo, asking, «Tell me this... Learn More
Playing a villain as usual, Sean Harris is compellingly ruthless as a swaggering undercover soldier who routinely colludes with Loyalists terrorists, even showing them (not very thoroughly as it turns out) how to make crude bombs.
Anne Heche
plays the villain director hard - as - nails enough to get the movie's point across, but once her moral dilemma comes into play, the script doesn't provide enough motivation for even the slightest change.
Cumberbatch
plays villain John Harrison, while Eve portrays Captain Kirk's seeming love interest Carol Marcus.
Authoress Rhianna Pratchett penned an epic martial arts opera Heavenly Sword and actor Andy
Serkis played the villain and served as a drama director.
The film has a few new cast members, with Christoph
Waltz playing the villain, and Lea Seydoux and Monica Bellucci as the «Bond girls».
Anthony Weiner's 2013 New York City mayoral campaign, believes the new documentary «Weiner» will show the shamed politician and wife Huma Abedin in a sympathetic light, and she's «
fine playing the villain.»
Old pals Martin Freeman and Andy Serkis have major roles; Freeman a CIA operative with no trace of a British accent, and a burly Serkis
actually playing a villain in his own persona — no motion capture here.
Otherwise, The Girl in the Spider's Web cast also includes breakout Mindhunter star Cameron Britton and The Square star Claes Bang, who may be
playing the villain assassin Holtser, one of many involved in the enigmatic criminal organization known as the «Spider Society.»
Kingsman: The Golden Circle sees Julianne
Moore play the villain of the piece this time «around, and we got a brief glimpse of the character, named Poppy, a week or so ago courtesy of a couple of outlets.