froghorseAug 16, 2023

Do actors who play evil roles become evil IRL?

https://lemm.ee/post/4442596

Do actors who play evil roles become evil IRL? - lemm.ee

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?

Show threadMobiuthuselahAug 16, 2023
You’re phrasing this as a question, but it’s clearly not for you.
Show threadfroghorseAug 16, 2023

My god some of you people would rather twist yourself into a pretzel than address the question.

Fine, so pretend that it’s due to a clumsiness of phrasing on my part. Mea culpa maxima.

Now pretty please, address my question.

Show threadSusagaAug 16, 2023
We did address your question. We said no. You started twisting the question to try and get the answer you wanted. We still said no. Actors have a strong enough sense of reality and fiction that they do not take on the traits of their characters, good or bad. Beyond that, you have to be humble as fuck to regularly play a character everyone’s meant to hate, and it’s not uncommon for hero actors to develop a hell of an ego.
Show threadfroghorse
Actually some of you said no, some said yes, some said maybe and some said it bears further discussion. But your song is a bit gimpy I think.
Aug 16, 2023 at 7:47pmWeb
Show threadSusagaAug 16, 2023
One person said yes (and literally nothing else). Nobody said maybe. Everyone else said no. You are the only person who thinks it bears further discussion. I checked.
Show threadfroghorseAug 16, 2023
I dunno man, have you asked your mom?
Show threadMobiuthuselahAug 17, 2023
Asked yours last night. Hard to understand with her mouth full, but ultimately confirmed that it was no. We laughed pretty hard because otherwise she kept repeating the opposite all night.