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No one thinks they're evil...

Storied Wisdom

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[0:00]Do you remember the movie Inglorious Basterds? Christoph Waltz, who plays the Nazi, is chillingly brilliant. How good he is in this in this Nazi role, right? And he's relaxed and he's got a sense of humor. He doesn't play this caricature of evil. So he was on a talk show and the host asks him, what did you have to do as an actor to play evil so effectively? And he's literally look, he's got this look of total confusion on his face. He doesn't understand the question. He goes, what? And the host says again, you were so good. What did you have to source yourself from to play evil? You were so scary. And he looks at the host and goes, he wasn't evil. And this is why he was so good in his role, because what he understood is no one thinks they're evil. Everyone thinks they're on the side of good.

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