Hollywood has a new favorite bad boy, and I’m not talking tabloid headlines.
(That was yesterday’s blog.)
No, the villian-of-the-moment is Mark Strong, a London-born actor who studied at the Old Vic Theatre School. If you can’t place the name, don’t worry. You’ve seen him (or soon will) as the evil Lord Blackwood in “Sherlock Holmes,” and as the not-to-be-trusted royal adviser John Conroy in “The Young Victoria.”
Mark Strong looks like a younger, slightly more coiffed version of Stanley Tucci, and his ability to fell people with a single glance makes him an exceptional bad guy. He also has another half-dozen films in various stages of production — according to his imdb.com profile — so we will have many more chances to see him be the downfall of himself — or others — in the next few years.
One quick note — imdb.com also reveals that Mark played ultimate good guy Mr. Knightley in a 1996 television version of “Emma” opposite Kate Beckinsale…so there must be a hero in there somewhere.
Bad guys are just more fun.
