Let’s play a game. Our goal is to fill each square with a fitting SW character. I’ll give you a few days to think about it and the comment with the most likes will be chosen.
First, we have the fan favorite. Which character do you suggest? I’d say The Man with No Name from the Dollars trilogy
A toss-up between Eduardo Fajardo, Fernando Sancho, and Jose Bodalo…although we should also spare a thought for everybody’s favourite sidekick, Mario Brega…
Not forgetting Klaus Kinski, who played the most polite badass imaginable, in ‘The Great Silence’.
Klaus also had the distinction of reputedly being a complete tw*t in real life…
Probably the only actor to be hated for real (by film Director, Werner Herzog).
In fact, my nomination for cold bastard goes to KK…even though he could quite easily fit into more than one of the above categories…(hated, gremlin, evil).
In the made to be hated category: my nomination would be Major Jackson (‘Django’), or maybe that very sinister character Kinski played in ‘Chacun pour soi’.
Kinski also has been a sort of antihero in Black Killer (7/10), so just the actor could be misleading.
I nominate Ferguson played by Mark Damon in Requiescant (7/10). That character could be considered Made to be hated, and I really liked his performance there and so did he himself according to an interview I watched a few weeks ago. You can hardly feel that it is the same actor who had been the antihero in several SWs.
Probably the only actor to be hated for real (by film Director, Werner Herzog).
Kinski also attempted to kill people and one of his producers wanted to kill him for insurance money iirc lol… he also sexually abused his underaged daughter for years allegedly (not sure I believe that though as it was his daughter who made these claims and its awfully convenient for her to say this stuff 20 years after he died with no evidence).
KK is a good choice for a lead actor but for a lesser actor I would go for the 3 bandits in Hannie Caulder (although this is a euro western I believe).