Are villains more interesting than heroes? Normal People star Daisy Edgar-Jones is bored of playing good people on screen. She says playing a villain would be more fun.
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Actress searching for her first evil role
Are villains more interesting than heroes? Normal People star Daisy Edgar-Jones is bored of playing good people on screen. She says playing a villain would be more fun.
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Daisy Edgar-Jones, the English actress famous for her role in the TV drama Normal People is on the hunt for her dream part.
She said in a recent interview she wants to play "a really iconicVery famous or popular. villain with an amazing costume".
Not everyone wants to play the hero. Villains are now being celebrated. Joaquin Phoenix won the 2020 Best Actor OscarThe popular name for the Academy Awards, referring to the gold-plated statuette of a medieval knight given to winners. for playing Batman's enemy, the Joker. And they have also become popular. A 2022 online poll ranked Darth Vader as the most popular character in the Star Wars films.
Top thinkers say movie villains take people we recogniseTo see something or someone and know that you have seen it before., but make them more extreme. Film critic Peter Bradshaw calls Harry Potter villain Dolores Umbridge "the sort of teacher you can imagine in real life", only a teacher that punishes her students by making them write with their own blood.
A recent research project found that people like fictionalNot real. villains because they are darker versions of ourselves. People do not want to compare themselves to bad people in the real world.
Yet others question why the same can not apply to heroes too. Just as a villain can help us explore the worst parts of ourselves, a hero can let us reflect on our best, or what we can do better.
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Are villains more interesting than heroes?
Yes! You never know quite what a villain will do next. They are creative, making evil plans that heroes simply have to react against. And while heroes often protect us, villains represent change.
No! Fiction is full of boring heroes who face interesting villains. But that is just the result of bad writing. Heroes can be interesting characters too.
Keywords
Iconic - Very famous or popular.
Oscar - The popular name for the Academy Awards, referring to the gold-plated statuette of a medieval knight given to winners.
Recognise - To see something or someone and know that you have seen it before.
Fictional - Not real.
Actress searching for her first evil role
Fierce four: In Greek mythology, Nemesis was a goddess who dealt revenge to the arrogant. Glossary
Iconic - Very famous or popular.
Oscar - The popular name for the Academy Awards, referring to the gold-plated statuette of a medieval knight given to winners.
Recognise - To see something or someone and know that you have seen it before.
Fictional - Not real.