Search the whole of planet Earth, and you’ll find no one who disputes the incontrovertible fact that Christoph Waltz makes an impeccable villain; Amazon certainly agrees, since Waltz leads Prime Video’s new thriller series The Consultant.
One performance so magnificently bloodcurdling, it’s almost supernatural (Colonel Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds), was all it took to induct him into the movie villains hall of fame and bag his first of two Academy Awards.
Naturally, the American movie system lined up at his doorstep.
But Christoph Waltz should get to play good guys too — as he does so well in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained.
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