Daily Inspiration Quote by Tom Felton

Villainy is Felton giving the audience permission to enjoy the misbehavior they already came for. When he says it is "definitely more fun" to play a bad guy, he is not confessing a personal moral preference so much as naming an acting truth: antagonists get the sharpest verbs. Good guys often protect, endure, reassure. Bad guys scheme, provoke, derail scenes. They generate motion, and in screen terms motion is attention.

The second sentence tightens the provocation: "It feels a lot better". That is emotional language, not craft language, and it hints at the guilty pleasure baked into popular storytelling. Audiences are trained to read goodness as obligation and evil as freedom. A "good guy" has to stay within the rails of likability; a "bad guy" can be theatrical, petty, witty, even glamorous. The actor gets to take bigger swings without being punished by the script's need to keep the hero admirable.

Felton's context matters. He is forever tethered to Draco Malfoy, a character built to be both detestable and weirdly magnetic: cowardice with couture, cruelty with quips. Saying the bad guy feels better is also a subtle defense of the labor of being hated on cue, night after night, while still delivering something watchable. It reframes villain roles as a kind of privilege: the chance to play desire unfiltered, to let the audience experience transgression safely, and to walk away clean when the director calls cut.