I'm sure if John was still playing roles like the one he has in this movie, he would surely play the hell out of the role. Too bad he went on to make stupid shows like 3rd Rock From The Sun.
I always tell the truth even when I lie Tony Montana (Scarface)share
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I've always thought that along with Tim Curry, John Lithgow is one of the best actors at playing pure terrifying unadulterated evil. It's his upper-class-seeming haughtiness, and superciliousness and mocking sneer that makes him such an effective villain, despite appearing, by all accounts, to be such a nice guy in person.
I always think that had the producers of 'The Silence of the Lambs' cast an American as 'Hannibal Lector' rather than a Brit, as sublime as Anthony Hopkins was, Lithgow with his cold, cruel, belittling intelligence would have been perfect. I also think he'd still make a great comic-book-movie villain (it's a shame nobody has cast him in such a role yet - Marvel Studios are you reading this?) He would have been my ultimate choice to play 'The Scarecrow/Dr. Jonathan Crane' in the 1990s Batman franchise had Tim Burton or Joel Schumacher got around to portraying that villain.
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