“Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.”

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This reads as a defence of difficult characters, the kind who repel and fascinate at once. It points to the pull of contradiction, where charisma can matter more than decency, and to the idea that art often lives in people we would not trust in real life. It lands when a character is unsettling but impossible to ignore.

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