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    27 days ago

    Well, it looks like you all hated me so much that you’ve given me this award for it, and I’m loving every minute of it.

    – Louise Fletcher when accepting the Oscar for playing Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

    They couldn’t have found a better actress for that role. You could tell she was having a ball with it too.

    I hear, like most people who play villains that are easy to hate, she was a real sweetheart in real life.

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        27 days ago

        That could be, but I also have to say as someone who has done it in VO roles that it is a lot of fun to play a villain because you get away with chewing a lot more scenery and your character is either so broadly-written that you can have fun with the broad choices or so complex that you have make a lot of fun with the details. And I know I personally have never played a role in between. I don’t know that the former really requires empathy, but you can still be hated for your roles when you play the former all the time.

        I imagine at her level, which I was nowhere near, she got to have fun playing the complex villain whenever she wanted after that Oscar. And if I had her talent, I would too.

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            I got to do a sort of evil business guy monster character for a game and I got to do a heavy Brooklyn accent, which is my favorite accent to do, so I really enjoyed that.

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                Former career. The biggest downside is that it’s really hard to get steady work. But yeah, it was lots of fun.