Sad. He was great in Prison Break. Please don't tell me Brian Cox is really a child molester as he played in L.I.E. I always thought that was a brave role for him to.play.

playing really intense and criminal roles?

I remember reading about Heath Ledger playing The Joker, and how he immersed himself in psychopathy. His family denied that the role had anything to do with his death, though.

to impersonate 45. Jonathan Winters, who had his own mental health issues, frequently found it difficult not to over identify with some of his characters. You may have a point, Ilsa.

And play, say, a serial killer.

Yes, yes, actors, especially working actors, are a privileged lot. They get to be paid to do what they love best. And it doesn't involve hard labor, and its unionized. But I imagine it is quite taxing mentally at times to "be" a murderer, or a child molester, for months at a time.

and sometimes doing repugnant things.

I remember hearing that Steven Spielberg had really sweet talk Kate Capshaw (before they became a couple) into putting her hand into the area of cracked rock where real bugs, roaches, etc, were crawling all over her arm in the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

... just because "KNEPPER" is the crude Danish word for F*CK.

knowing that their predatory conduct has no statute of limitations on social media