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In this video, Mahershala Ali explains why he doesn't really believe in movie villains. He discusses his approach to acting, sharing that he prefers to view every character as the hero of their own journey, even if they fail miserably along the way.

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00:00I don't really believe in villains.
00:02I need help with this one, guys.
00:03This is hard.
00:04Look into the camera and defend a movie villain who got a bad rap.
00:07I don't really believe in villains.
00:09Ah, painful.
00:10That's the difficult thing.
00:12So I think maybe why I struggle with this is because I just feel like it's your job
00:17to really embrace the circumstances and the perspective of the world of any given character
00:26and really understanding that in everyone's own mind, we're all kind of like the hero
00:31in our own journey, even if you fail miserably.
00:35Even when I watch something, if anything, sometimes I have an empathy for someone's ignorance even
00:43or what they haven't been exposed to or how they haven't evolved.

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