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?

EDIT

Put more generally : Can habits gained in one context bleed over into another context?

Yes.

Do they?

Possibly. With increasing probability as the habit becomes stronger. And there’s self-awareness to consider. And how much the habit clashes with the new context.

  • froghorse@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Thank you for this response.

    Habit bleedover seems unavoidable, but I like your take. Because of course we are more than our habits. We are also awareness and rationality. And playing the villain certainly would bring that part of ourselves and that reality into that light. It would be healthful, eye-opening and educational for sure.