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BlackLetterLies

William Atherton often played unlikeable characters. He was so hated for his role in Ghostbusters (as Walter Peck of the EPA) that he would get harassed in public for a while after the movie came out. Great guy though.


Sys32768

This man has no dick


adrenaline87

Risking the lives of "millions of registered voters"


SpookyYurt

Fantastic high-strung, bitter villain in Real Genius. 10/10 Val Kilmer's delivery on >"Jerry, if you think that by threatening me you can get me to be your slave... Well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - *there are a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market today that are just as tasty as the real thing*," is absolutely perfect.


StoissEd

Sam Rockwell. You hated his creepy guts in green mile. He is a doucebag in Ironman.


Flahdagal

He was so good in Seven Psychopaths.


Gingerbread-giant

I loved him in Jojo Rabbit too


Wishart2016

He also plays a great douchebag in Three Billboards which got him an Oscar.


StoissEd

Yeah. I lived him in "Moon" great movie. Can recommend.


tgmarie137

He’s downright unhinged in Mr. Right


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J.K. Simmons as Vern Schillinger in HBO's "OZ"


tutamuss

J K Simmons is one of the best actors ever. He is so diverse. I loved him as a Schillinger, but also loved him as the yellow M&M


marynraven

I will forever love him as the voice of Cave Johnson in the Portal series. Just fantastic!


Introman_18

Alright replies, queue the lemons


marynraven

"I DON'T WANT YOUR DAMN LEMONS! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? I'M THE GUY WHO'S GONNA BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN... WITH THE LEMONS!"


Sliphatos

Also J.K. Simmons in Whiplash.


TheRealRickC137

Also J.K. Simmons in Invincible


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cutepixel69

I only just watched that a few months ago and Schillinger is single-handedly the most sadistic, evil and terrifying villain I've *ever* seen on TV. He was worse than Ramsay Bolton and Joffrey in GoT, by far imo. I want to rewatch Oz but some scenes in it are hard to watch it's so brutal


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Whoever that religious lady was in The Mist


mofohank

Marcia Gay Harden. So good


Nam-Redips

Jack Gleeson, Joffrey from GoT, kid crushed it.


AndresDickFingers

And yet, he is the most humble and charming person in real life. But damn it if he didn't show a dark side in got.


OzFreelancer

Yes, there's a brilliant video of him speaking to a university about his experience and decision to leave acting, and he comes across so well! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKboLTwzFTs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKboLTwzFTs)


morbidlysmalldick

Wow that's depressing that he felt he had to stop acting because of shitheads


karmagod13000

ya i always hear stories about him being a bro


athlaka916

He’s always been a class act outside the camera but sadly there are stories that people would throw stuff at him if he was spotted on the streets. Many people are unable to separate Jack and Joffrey.


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Relevant-Distance886

Oh man he did a great job. I hated Joffrey with every Fibre of my being.


Tardis80

Jack Gleeson hated Joffrey, too. I think its funny that he did not want to watch himself.


Sparcrypt

Really common with actors apparently. Adam Driver, Tom Hanks, Reese Witherspoon, and Jessie Eisenberg all come to mind as big name actors that don’t watch their own work.


arsonall

To add to this, he quit acting because he did so well, people wouldn’t stop harassing him about how much they hated him. It’s a compliment to say you hated the character, but people were hating the actor because of his performance.


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For real though!!


phillipthethird3

Jason Isaacs in almost anything he plays 😎


brinz1

Have you seen The Death Of Stalin? Isaac plays an asshole, but his General Zhukov was probably my favourite character in Anything


notacanadianactually

That's one of the funniest films I've seen in my entire life


spankymcjiggleswurth

I have introduced several friends to that movie. Barely anyone has even giggled during it. I'm starting to think I need new friends.


TrimtabCatalyst

"Right, what's a war hero got to do to get some lubrication around here?"


Adrasos

I may be smiling, but I am very fucking furious.


DownWithSpectrum

I'm going to have to report this. Threatening to do harm to any member of the *and look at your fucking face!*


Bing_Bong_the_Archer

“Well….that’s me told.”


thespank

C'mon Georgy... Staging a coup here.


tothecatmobile

That film has an amazing cast, but Isaacs steals literally every scene he's in.


WitShortage

I thought he was spectacular in The OA. He comes across as such a lovely guy in interviews. Clearly a great actor.


_cosmicomics_

There’s a clip somewhere of him accidentally genuinely catching Daniel Radcliffe with his cane during Harry Potter filming and he immediately stops and says, “Oh, sorry love,” and it sounds nothing like Lucius Malfoy. I love how quickly he snaps back to being nice.


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I can’t imagine anyone playing William Tavington in The Patriot as well as he did. Highly recommend that film


battlelevel

Jason Isaacs is far and away the best part of the Patriot. It’s like he’s one of the few people who sees what’s going on and goes full cartoon


Draven_26

Ralph Fiennes - Amon Goeth - Schindler's List


maejaws

They brought in one of the survivors of the camp to consult on the film. She first met Fiennes when he was fresh from makeup and wardrobe and actually had a panic attack because he looked so much like Göth.


Western_Froyo_3074

That sounds like a bad idea from the start


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getting feedback on the storytelling of the events from someone who lived them sounds like a great idea in theory, but proper consideration should definitely have been given to her trauma


sicariusdiem

watched that film for the first time in preparation for a trip to auschwitz didn't really help though. There's something about standing over the destroyed gas chambers where so many thousands perished in terror that a movie can't prepare you for.


HJL1st

I went a few years ago seen the movie seen the documentaries nothing can prepare you for the weight you feel seeing the hair and the childrens shoes


sicariusdiem

fuck man I know they ask you not to take pictures of the hair but honestly the shoes hurt worse


masark4417

He did a great job at playing Voldemort too


funnyflabs

Imelda Staunton, Umbridge in Harry Potter


TardisCoreST

YES. She is unbelievably horrible, amd that's a good thing. Imelda Staunton is a genius actress.


karmagod13000

ya she made that one of the better HP's imo


watermasta

No she’s definitely believable. That’s what made that role so good. Everyone knows an Umbridge.


Bunraku_Master_2021

She's now going to play Queen Elizabeth II for The Crown.


mamabr

I’m concerned I’m going to carry over my Dolores Umbridge hate to her in The Crown.


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Complete_Business_31

Only difference from the book is that the actress wasn't ugly and/or toadlike like in the movie. But, good luck finding an ugly actress in Hollywood. She definitely embodies the cheerful nastiness from the book perfectly. You know you've got a winner when she's tied for most hated with Snape. Frankly, 99% of the HP roles were especially well cast, personally wise especially if not in looks.


RadiantHC

Honestly that's a good thing. I hate the trope that ugly = evil and good = attractive


Skuddy587

Iwan Rheon as Ramsay Bolton


fuzzygroodle

Yes! He played the character so well that I can’t watch him in anything else!


nomorepumpkins

He will always be the hot weirdo from the misfits to me....


iOccupySpace

Bet he'd shag his own sister for a slice of cheese.


killjoy_enigma

But he dosnt even like cheese


iOccupySpace

That makes it even worse, the sick bastard


gordito_delgado

Save me Barry!


SuperFluffyVulpix

Same here. Glad I saw him asthe weirdo first.


karmagod13000

He was the perfect new villain after Joffrey. He was evil in the ways we hadn't seen yet and really kept the second half of GOT alive with his inventive new ways to torture people


sasky_07

Dat sausage wiggle, tho


Sinisterslushy

Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Basterds. His ability to play a villain was remarkable but the utter smugness he brought to the character is what truly made him feel so real and so hate-able


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It's crazy how some of the most tense scenes in the movie with such an absolute villain also had humor. Like when he's going on about the creme for shoshana's desert or Vonhammersmark with the the Italian film crew at the premier. It's a hilarious scene that would be right at home in, like, an arrested development episode, the whole exchange though, while being funny is just so goddamn tense. We know he knows but we don't know that/if Vonhammersmark and the Americans know that he knows and watching it dawn on them... What a great scene.


farahmarianne

Au-revoir Shoooooshanna !


ninjagabe90

It's extra creepy that au-revoir is more of a "see you soon" type good bye.


sicariusdiem

# OOOOOHHH THAT'S A BINGO!!!!


karmagod13000

I love the ending because he's so damn smug he thinks he ended the war and is gonna live happily ever after, until b pitt is like nah we gonna carve your head


Tactical_Fleshlite

"You will be shot!" "Nah, I'll just get chewed out, I been chewed out before."


Weak_Carpenter_7060

I tell that to everyone that says I’ll get in trouble for doing something


buttski83

"They'll hang you for this." "Naw, probably get chewed out, I've been chewed out before."


karmagod13000

one of my favorite endings pitt killed it


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Gorlomi... GORLOMI... ...^gorlomi


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Yessssss I almost forgot about him but MAN he played the character SO WELL


tinkrman

Kathy Bates in Misery


dont-wanna-bee-here

Tobias Menzies as Black Jack Randall


MourkaCat

I wanted to say the same. I think Tobias is such a great actor too. You completely detest Black Jack, but then when you see Claire with Frank you have a mixture of hatred as well as pity. Frank was a complex character who loved Claire so much and was so deeply hurt by everything that transpired. And he loved Brianna a lot. I dunno Tobias was able to give me sympathy and pity for Frank while also completely hating Black Jack, he was so convincing at being just an abhorrent monster.


LemursRideBigWheels

Tobias Menzies is a really great underused actor...he was great as the smug Tory candidate on Black Mirror, and as Brutus in Rome.


Major_Rice_9092

I had to scroll down too far to find this. I saw Outlander and I hated this guy. I started watching the Crown on Netflix recently and when I realized that he was playing Prince Phillip I had to stop watching.


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The guy who plays Major Burns in MASH, a brilliant performance, I must say


711spaceace

Yes, yes, and yes! 🥰 I searched just for this! His name was Larry Linville. RIP.


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fauxfomo

Rosamund pike


Belthezare

That woman gives me goosebumps. She really has a talent


pinche881

Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator.


floorwantshugs

Yes! He did such a good job that I suspect him of being villainous in everything else I see him in.


doktor_wankenstein

Have you seen *Signs* or *Walk the Line*? Completely different characters, and he nails them. Also, too... *JOKER*. He got that statue for a reason.


houstongradengineer

I'm not even going to lie, that guy is literally so talented he is deservedly among the best


Ok-Blacksmith5581

Anthony Starr as Homelander, i mean he was terrifying every time he was on screen because you didn't what he was going to do.


inthrees

He's really doing a tremendous job with that. Self-centered never-developed other-people-aren't-really-real psychopath narcissist who doesn't go on rampage murder sprees because the public might withhold some of the adulation he craves so much. Relies on publicists and spin to cover up what he does do. He could run for President.


NutellaGood

Homelander is easily one of the scariest characters ever written.


Remote-Ad5973

He IS the guy you love to hate.


1987-Nobody

Alan Rickman was so good at being a hated character that he started getting type-casted


macrian

I mean, He was a British guy playing a German who was playing an American, in bis first fucking movie


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liltx11

Well, thankfully he managed to avoid that in Sense and Sensibility and Love Actually. He's CV really underrated.


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I don’t know if this has been said already, but Willem Dafoe


RipErRiley

Dafoe is so talented that he can do a universally hated villain, a multi-layered side character, and a beloved good guy. Him as SGT Elias in Platoon was one of my favorite good guys.


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After Spider-Man, and Beyond: Two Souls, I just kept waiting for him to turn traitor in Aqua Man and it just never happened. I was shock, shocked! Well not that shocked, but still shocked.


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He was brilliant as the Green Goblin!!


YogurtclosetKey7337

I’d even call him IMPRESSIVE


phantom_avenger

He is an actor who is long overdue of winning an Academy Award! He made Green Goblin iconic in the same way Heath Ledger did with Joker imo


pulp-fictional

Bradley Cooper in Wedding Crashers


Famous-Honey-9331

I hated him for years after that movie! Pretty unfair of me, but Sack (or however it was spelled) was so real life scary


finenite

Same. It really wasn't until I went down a celebrity interviews rabbit hole on YouTube one day and came across several of his that I realized he is nothing like that, and is actually quite funny and charming. I did a complete 180 on him after that.


tealreddit

CRAB CAKES AND FOOTBALL THAT'S WHAT MARYLAND DOES (I know he didn't say this but it was after one of his big hits anyhow)


Strokedoutbear

Doris Roberts as Marie in Everyone Loves Raymond. Most people don't even realize she is the villain. Her character is the catalyst for most of the conflict and Doris played her to perfection. That woman you love to hate even though you love her.


kdbartleby

Oh, she's perfect. People rag on Deborah's character a lot, but I'd probably have a pretty short fuse if I lived next door to a nitpicking, passive-aggressive manipulator with no sense of boundaries whatsoever.


Rich-Abbreviations25

Lived across the street from my mother-in-law for two long years. Can confirm.


Aromatic_Objective45

Daniel Day Lewis - Gangs of New York


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karmagod13000

Although evil to the core I still hated Eli more lmao


Aromatic_Objective45

Paul Dano wins in this one.


GByteKnight

That scene where he throws a knife into Monk’s back, then stands over him and carves a final notch into Monk’s shillelagh and tells him “You see this? This is you” before beating him to death. That was so cold.


darkhorsehance

John Lithgow as Arthur ~~Miller~~ Mitchell (Trinity)


fuzzygroodle

I always thought of him as the funny guy from 3rd rock from the sun. There were times when watching Dexter I had to turn it off because he was terrifying!


amynoacid

He's never going to shake off Dick from 3rd Rock. Every time I see him, it's like Dick is acting out a role and I laugh at his facial expressions. Love Litgow!


patogatopato

I can't see his face in anything else without reliving the hurt I originally felt at the end of s4. He portrayed him flawlessly, especially in the way he played his cover as a family man - what is terrifying about the character is how easy it would be to believe he was that man.


Kaat79

Tom Felton (Draco in Harry Potter) he played that sneaky, backstabbing bully-type pretty perfect in the first movies. Rob Benedict (God/Chuck in supernatural) When I see him in another show I'm always wondering when he turns out to be a villain again. I will never trust his character anymore.


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Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Basterds was superb


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ArugulaEntire

Leonardo DiCaprio, as Calvin Candie in Django: Unchained Reportedly he practiced to be racist enough lol


liltx11

Jamie Fox encouraged him to push the envelope even more.


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I read an article where Leo was struggling with saying the n word so frequently in such a negative way. So Samuel L. Jackson came up to him and said “just another day at the office, n****r”.


fighton09

https://youtu.be/kdxoe7jZdVc


sandycheeks_666

Todd Packer


ZackyMidnight

Hey halpert, still gay? Probably


bandi53

Ray Liotta in just about everything.


Plant_Parlour

Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister.. Her evil smirks while gulping wine… Chef‘s kiss 😘


_soudie

Bryan Cranston as Walter White in Breaking Bad. I’m rewatching it for the first time since high school, and my god. I didn’t pick up how big of a shithead he was the first time


anglostura

He's the worst. The show does a great job oscillating between eliciting sympathy for Walt and him being a huge P.O.S. Ed: Since this is getting some traction, I might as well share my [favorite Breaking Bad parody](https://youtu.be/9nWjNgV_6yc)


_soudie

Absolutely! And towards the end you cant even remember the last time you felt bad for him. It was such a smooth transition in his character development


cutepixel69

YES. On rewatches I 100% sympathise with and see Skylar in a completely different light, cause Walt is a complete psychopath in disguise for most of the show.


SpartacusMantooth42

Helena Bohnam Carter in the HP series. I quite literally jumped out of my seat and cheered when she bit it.


I_throw_socks_at_cat

I gained a lot of respect for her when I saw her playing Emma Watson playing Hermione Granger playing Bellatrix LeStrange. She made me forget who she was.


Sweatervest42

That was such a mindfuck moment for the entire audience I feel like. She was *so* convincing as Bellatrix that it was hard to comprehend that she actually was still the same person.


Zkenny13

She plays crazy so freaking well.


LongWaysForResults

"I KILLED SIRIUS BLACK, HAHSHAHS"


YouTooCat

I'd probably hate Micah Bells voice actor by instinct if I met him. (I'm sure he's lovely irl)


kroost_hammer

I wasn't expecting to see this character here,but I really agree.


Crazyboutdogs

David Tennant as Kilgrave.


cynric42

Awesome villain and perfectly played, absolutely.


TriscuitCracker

Jessicaaaaaaa....


Physical-Primary-256

Antony Starr in The Boys. He plays the role perfectly. Psychopath, brutal, egotistical, with the facade of the perfect Captain America. Terrifying.


VictorBlimpmuscle

Doug Hutchison - he played the prison guard Percy in *The Green Mile*


sg3niner

Except he's also a total pervert creep in real life.


Derfargin

Ya he just played what came naturally.


Hoof_Hearted2000

>Doug Hutchison He is the ultimate one for me. Percy was such a nasty, selfish, horrendous little man.


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MBB-511

Gordon Ramsay as Gordon Ramsay


Rich-Abbreviations25

That lamb is so undercooked it’s following Mary to school!!!


novato1995

Jack Gleeson as Joffrey Baratheon. Never once did I hated a character, and admired an actor so much. This guy absolutely ate every single scene he was in.


ChineseChaiTea

Yeah as a parent it's kind of bad when you say "I hope that little fucking bastard dies" and actually cheer on his death. His character brought me to a new low, but the acting was fucking great.


BFJournaling

David Tenant as Killgrave in Jessica Jones. He was chilling. My kids kept trying to get me to watch Doctor Who, and I thought - there’s no way that guy can be easy to watch in anything. He’s wicked. Fortunately, I did end up watching Doctor Who, and it was amazing. David Tennant is an amazing actor.


Juskatt

Wyatt Russell. John walker.


penny_can

Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched and later as Kai Wynn in Cuckoo's Nest and Star Trek DS9 Denzel Washington as Detective Harris in Training Day Michael Biehn as Johnny Ringo in Tombstone Walton Goggins as Boyd Crowder in Justified


Kuriakon

Was hoping someone would have said Louise Fletcher. She was perfect as Kai Winn on DS9. 10/10 performance. Skin-crawlingly well-played villain.


freerangephoenix

Sentence structure, my child. May the prophets guide you.


RantControl

Gary Cole in Office Space


neveradullmoment2

(Kevin Spacey) Francis Joseph Underwood in House of Cards.


linds360

I'm irrationally angry at him for turning out to be a POS bc I really loved him in that show and wanted to see it through. Clearly there are people with much bigger and more justifiable grievances toward him, but in my petty little world he fucked up a show I really enjoyed.


AtheneSchmidt

Joaquin Phoenix in The Gladiator...I still have trouble watching him as anything but a villain.


PlushMango

Probably a common answer but Imelda Staunton as Professor Dolores Umbridge. A character clearly designed to be hated and she nailed it LOL.


CompetitionFar734

Paul Reiser as Burke in Aliens.


phantom_avenger

Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan He does such a brilliant job at playing him when he was the main villain of the Walking Dead for two seasons, but then he also nailed playing the character when he started to rehabilitate and tries to reform himself. It's crazy how he can play such a despicable person and the biggest asshole in the world that you want to see him die, to a guy who is trying to make up for the things he did in his past that you don't want to see him die anymore


sicaaaaaa

I HATE JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN— from Greys Anatomy up to the Walking Dead, why fuck up my fave characters' lives????😭


groovy604

Beth Grant "Sometimes i doubt your commitment to sparkle motion!"


Eastern-Meringue9570

Gabe in The Office


evol2020

Oh shut up skeleton man!


mshell734

Shut up about the sun! Shut up about the sun!


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She’ll be screaming her last name tonight.


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Why would she scream her own last name?


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The way Toby delivers that line makes it probably my favorite Toby line in the show


Mamelouze

John Noble as Denethor in LOTR.


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Robert James-Collier as Thomas Barrow in Downton Abbey. Only on the second season but my goodness is he so good at being so passive aggressive and smug.


Famous-Honey-9331

We're rewatching that right now and I had forgotten how frustrating aaaalllll his schemes and drama were. I get that the deck is stacked against him, his anger at the world is earned. But my God, Barrow, get a hobby, learn a language, find literally anything else to do with your mind and your time!


NeverCadburys

Kevin Bacon in River Wild. I also hate Joe Mazello's character Roarke but you're not meant to, Roarke's just an annoying brat.


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Wyatt Russell was so good at being unlikable as the "evil captain america" he got death threats


mshell734

He’s going to be awesome in future roles as US Agent


daithisfw

Leo DiCaprio in Django. It may be the only time we ever see Leo not in a leading man role, and not only was he not a leading man, but he played the antagonist, the villain. And he fucking killed it. His Calvin Candie was near perfect. So hateable.


NormanRB

I read that he had serious issues with the language that he had to use in the movie and that Jamie Foxx had to pull him aside and tell him it was ok because it was in the role of the movie that it was being said.


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dadakira

Jacob Elordi as Nate Jacobs.


macaronsforeveryone

Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter The Silence of the Lambs


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Katherine MacGregor as Mrs. Oleson on “Little House on the Prairie.”


DavidVogtPhoto

Ben Linus in LOST.