If you play an evil character, it’s gotta stick a little.
And if you’re a character-actor who always gets the evil role. If you play 100 evil guys. Then 100X moreso.
You get into the evil role. See the world through evil eyes and evil motivations.
And over time, It’s gotta bend your personality towards real evilness. Right?
I suppose you could google evil-character-actors. 20 years later, how many got arrested for something heinous.
What do you think?
EDIT
Put more generally : Can habits gained in one context bleed over into another context?
Yes.
Do they?
Possibly. With increasing probability as the habit becomes stronger. And there’s self-awareness to consider. And how much the habit clashes with the new context.
I can’t help but notice how rarely actors become crime-fighting billionaires.
Maybe they feel a little empowered. Maybe their thoughts are slightly more inclined to judgment. There’s infinitely more to a person than their obvious behavior.
The thing to do would be to examine your own behavior. Has a habit gained in one context ever noticeably bled over into another?
“You are aware that I am not actually a wizard”