There are some actors that you can only picture playing bad guys. Some you can only picture playing the good ones. When it comes to Tom Blyth, what do you picture? Well for us, we picture President Snow, but hey… he should have expected that.
Don’t get us wrong though, we’d be happy to see him in any role. When he took on the part of Cornelius Snow in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, we wanted to kick ourselves for not being on top of who he was. Since then, we’ve watched a lot of his body of work.
But in that, we’ve got to admit that we can only picture him as the bad guy because he plays them so well. Apparently, that’s not a bad way to picture him, because in talking to VMan, the actor admitted that is the type of role that he’s attracted to. He stated that he’s, “really drawn to them for some reason.”
He continued by saying, “Or to morally complex characters. I think that’s because I see the world that way. I look at people and think, no one’s really good or bad. Everyone’s this huge mix of ambitions and objectives, and they’re all kind of clashing every day. I’m fascinated by the gradients between the two. Like, what is the psychology behind people who maybe start off with good intentions and then wind up giving up on them?”
We’re thinking that it’s because they are the opposite of who he is. He doesn’t seem like a bad guy in real life. But also, when you play a bad guy, we’d assume that you’d be taking home that role as an actor.
And apparently Tom does. He said, “It’s a fine line because if I don’t take the characters home a little bit, I find that I’m not going deep enough. I do let it come home with me because I want to ruminate on them and almost think the character’s thoughts.”
We’d love to see more of him in a role that is the good guy. We’d love him in a romantic comedy. What do you think?
