It's not enough to be scary, or to be explosive, or to be dark. It's not enough to lack any empathy for the people you're hurting. For me, the most sinister part of a villain isn't that he's evil, it's that he enjoys it. Show me someone doing the unthinkable *and* finding satisfaction or joy or even ecstasy in it, now that's a villain I can be afraid of. And that's what I try to bring to my characters. Watch my shows, you'll see me screaming, and you'll see me exploding. But you'll also see me smiling.

A lot of productions bring me on to play the baddie, but I'm constantly aware that my job is to do justice to the story as a whole. If the story needs something sinister, I'm here to bring that. I can detach from the protagonist in scenes, but ultimately I have to remember I am there to tell their story. I am the bad thing that happened to them. And that's how I view my work. I can go to the dark places because I'm serving the story.