Figure I'd post it here, too...
but it's too bad that he plays an unlikable dick with no redeeming qualities.
By that statement, you're essentially validating Ben's prowess as an actor. And, he's phenomenal, yes. When you love to hate a character based on a one-hour performance, I'd say that's a pretty good litmus test.
He's not a prince and watching him typecast as the hero with a conscience would tire anyone. Does he make good orgy material? Hell, yeah! Dorian Gray's not the first character he's played with a flawed moral compass and with his casting in Westworld AND The Punisher, you can be assured that it won't be his last.
He's also played a con artist, a soldier, a greiving writer, a cheating husband, a mama's boy, a conflicted mafioso and a misguided rock journalist/rocker wannabe and a musically inclined drifter, among other roles.
Just like any long-term relationship, an actor needs to keeps things interesting for himself and his audience.
"She's gone. She gave me a pen. I gave her my heart, she gave me a pen."
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