Q: In this movie you’re playing an unrelentingly bad villain. Did you work on finding the human side of the villain?

A: Not this time. I mean I’m a great man for trying to find shades in characters, different layers and all that kind of bullshit that actors talk about, I’m a great man for that, but this time it was a chance for me to just check my sanity in at the door and just have a field day. Not worry about a dead father or a prisoner of war camp or finding out who the killer is. Not worrying about anything past or future. Just worrying about being exactly in the now and just dealing with that.

Bullseye was great. He was so black and white. There were no shades of gray. He was just an insane assassin and derived so much pleasure from his work as a killer.

He’s like a cat with a ball of thread. In the fight with Elektra, that’s what I mean. He’s just on top of the world when he’s into having a fight with Elektra and he’s just toying with her like she’s a piece of thread.