To these actors, it's not good to be bad.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Many actors refuse to play villains because of how it might look for their careers, choosing instead to build their reputations around playing the good guy. In the days when the studio system had enough control to keep actors under contract for years, an actor had to be prudent and careful about what roles they played, or else they would be typecast, and heroes were much more successful than heavies.
9 Dwayne Johnson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson started his film career playing a villain - The Scorpion King in The Mummy Returns, and when a spinoff was made featuring the origin story of the warrior, it was turned into an antihero story, and that basically became the template for Johnson's career.
6 Jennifer Lawrence Jennifer Lawrence's breakout role was as YA hero Katniss Evergreen, and in the decade since that she's been seen in different roles, they all have one thing in common; they're not a villain. While her X-Men character Mystique was somewhat villainous, she never made her as brutal as the character could have been in the comics.
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