Mark Strong:
"I think with good guys, you never really think, "Why are they good?" But with bad guys, you might find yourself thinking, "What's made them like this?" So, psychologically, I find them really interesting, and I can find different ways to differentiate them.
For example, say with Blackwood, there's a scene in which his father confesses to Holmes that Blackwood was conceived in a Masonic ritual. Now, that made me start thinking, "What kind of a childhood is that?" And how bizarre for that man to have that start in his life — a father who obviously doesn't really care, and a mother who wasn't his father's wife conceiving him after a Masonic ritual. That's pretty bizarre. So that gave me the impetus to allow him to try and achieve what he's trying to get, because he's misunderstood, and he deserves it because he's been treated so badly.
With Frank D'Amico, for example, in Kick-Ass, there's a guy who is a mafia guy who's sort of achieved — he has reached the level where he's not really involved in the dark stuff anymore. But these damn kids, the superheroes, start messing with his business, and that's what makes him turn and become bad.
In Robin Hood, Sir Godfrey, Robin Hood's nemesis, with him it's a need to control his environment, i.e. the country, because he's thinks that the people who are running it aren't doing a very good job. So I can vary the intentions of each of these dark characters. I can find different things that they're after. I suppose you'd call it their motivation. I can find different motivations for them all. That, coupled with the ability to change the physical look of them all and the way in which they achieve what they achieve, gives me that differentiation, so that's what I try and do with each of them."
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