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Michelle Pfeiffer, away from onscreen roles since 2002, returns in three movies this summer, two--Hairspray and the fantasy Stardust--as a villain. For her Hairspray role of Velma Von Tussle, the ex--beauty queen who can't accept the races mixing on a '60s TV dance party, Pfeiffer trawled for sympathy: "Yes, she's a bigot, but she's also a victim of the era she grew up in. It all changed on her, and what was once perfectly acceptable behavior suddenly wasn't. I think that's sad." Whereas her character in Stardust, a witch bent on destroying...
...ACTING TEACHER TOLD ME, 'PLAY YOUR villain like a priest and your priest like a villain,'" says Olyphant. "That's good advice...
...FANTASY FILM, THE VILLAIN OFTEN NEEDS TO look very ugly or old or outré. That depends on the skill of the makeup-effects artist--and the patience of the actor. "Putting on the makeup and the fangs took four hours," says Grace about his Spider-Man 3 rig. "Then another 45 minutes to put on the suit--and you can't go the bathroom in it, which is a problem they still haven't solved after three of these films...
THEY MAY MAKE THE WRONG KINDS OF headlines now and again, but actors are mostly like the rest of ordinary us--except that they can pretend to be extraordinary, in ways nice or naughty. "Movies are the only chance you get to be a villain," Dinklage says. "You don't want to walk down the street and be a villain. But on film you can get away with...
Playing a misfit pianist in Shine may have won him an Oscar, but look at the prize Rush won for playing a villain...