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.

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Cliff Simon the actor who plays the System Lord Ba’al for 5 years did not raise an army of genetically engineered super soldiers and try to conquer earth.

    I mean the best we can say 8snthat he hasn’t tried to conquer Earth yet. I couldn’t call it either way on the supersoldiers.

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Actually, not even that’s right - he could have tried but SG1 were very good about nipping threats in the bud without the public funding out. So McGyver and chums have possibly seen off any number of attacks and we wouldn’t know