How The Menu's heroes learned to play villains
Felicity. “Once I enter the point of contact, I actually have a lot of fun just using my imagination, which I know is not everybody’s process,” Carrero says. “I don’t really have much in common with Felicity. She’s sort of Hollywood royalty. Her mom is a big executive at a studio, my mom’s a Spanish teacher, you know?” Whether an audience finds a way to relate to the characters is more important than whether they like a character or approve of their moral compass, she adds.
Leguizamo, funnily enough, takes the opposite approach. “I do need to like my character,” he admits. “I don’t need the audience to like my character, but I gotta like him because I gotta inhabit him … And so I’m playing a washed-up action star, and I’m not an action star and I’m not washed-up. Yet.” For Taylor-Joy, the differences between herself and her characters can unlock qualities within herself. “I’ve never been a very passive-aggressive
person, I’m more of a people pleaser, and I apologize for myself a lot,” she says. “So there’s an element of Margot’s thorniness that I wish I had a bit more of sometimes. I do wish that I was more comfortable in my skin. She is deeply comfortable and her confidence is almost unshakable. And that is something that I am trying to get to … Hopefully you learn something new every single time you leave a project.
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