Needless to say, acting ain't easy. It's not just about remembering lines, articulating, and gesturing properly. It's about being a certain kind of jack of all trades—assuming a role to its fullest, with its character, emotion, and lifestyle, whatever it may be.
And, in an actor's life, there will be numerous roles to fill, some even being as drastically different as serial killers or murderers and saviors of the world.
Bored Panda has created a list of some of the best actors out there who have managed to land roles of good guys as well as bad guys.
Check out the list below, and hey, while you're down there, vote and comment on the actors and characters you've enjoyed the most!
#21 Will Smith
The examples of movies where Will Smith plays both the villain and the superhero are interesting as they do not show these characters as a typical bad and good guy. In the movie Hancock, he plays a superhero who loses his good name, and in Suicide Squad, his character Deadshot seems like a villain with morals. Smith is not only a popular actor, but also a producer. He has his own production company, Overbrook Entertainment.
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#22 Angelina Jolie
Since her first appearance in cinema in 1982, Jolie has played in more than 48 movies and won three Golden Globes and an Oscar. One of her memorable roles was in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, where she played the lead protagonist. It was stated that for this role, she had to undergo special training. During her career, she had some opportunities to appear as a villain too: in the movie Maleficent, where she was an evil fairy.
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#23 Brad Pitt
There is no doubt why one of the best-known Brad Pitt movies is Fight Club, as I guess there is quite a number of people who have heard and remember the first two rules of Fight Club. In this movie, Pitt played Tyler Durden, an antagonist of the movie. A movie where Pitt appeared as a whole different kind of fighter was Troy. In this historic movie, he played Achilles.
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#24 Arnold Schwarzenegger
Now known as the governor of California, Schwarzenegger is still seen as a popular actor who played in movies such as The Terminator and Predator. In The Terminator, he played a cyborg who was sent from the future to 1984 to kill the protagonist Sarah Connor. With its genre, this movie is quite opposite to the one in which Schwarzenegger starred in 1990. Kindergarten Cop is an action comedy where he plays an undercover cop seeking justice, adding a good guy role to Schwarzenegger's movie list.
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#25 Demi Moore
It seems that actress Demi Moore played not one but at least several villain characters that we should all remember. She was the main antagonist Madison Lee in the movie Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, and Meredith Johnson in Disclosure. Her not-so-villainous role was in the movie L.O.L. where Moore played Anne, a mother who is dealing with a troubled teenage daughter.
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