Word: villainizing
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...Iago, José Ferrer was no longer dwarfed by Robeson, but a proper foil. Too mild a villain last year from not wanting to be too melodramatic a one, Ferrer now is supple, mettlesome, lightly Mephistophelean-a virtuoso who lays bare the workings of Iago's fiendish mind, though not the mainsprings of his enigmatic nature...
Most improved by this year of study is Jose Ferrer, whose portrayal of Iago is magnificent. Faced with the enormous acting problem of being "honest" and a villain at the same time, Ferrer plays a dynamic Iago without letting the part fall into the pitfall of melodrama...
When Watch on the Rhine was casting, Paul Lukas had to talk his way out of the part of the man he shoots. Originally, Producer Shumlin had Lukas down for the Rumanian villain. Lukas' on-&-offstage persuasiveness subsequently won him 1) the New York Drama League's coveted Delia Austrian medal for 1941's most distinguished performance, 2) nine out of nine votes in Variety's critics' poll of the season's best acting. The National Fathers' Day Committee presented Lukas with a plaque (for the year's best portrayal...
...such agonies are not enough, he has to pay for it. As our boy comes out of his coma the lewdly grinning villain, a bona fide member of Barbers local hands him the bill, the boy faints. It shouldn't happen to a Freshman...
...emotional release from their own pent-up bitterness and frustration under police tyranny. And never, they said, had the role been acted so realistically. It never had. The curtain did not rise again. Neither did the Baron. Petit Parisien reported that in the excitement of the performance the villain had actually been stabbed...