Lee Pace Describes 'Evil' Ronan the Accuser in Guardians of the Galaxy Movie

Lee Pace portrays the villainous Ronan the Accuser in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, which hits theaters on Aug. 1. Some villains, especially those in comics, have some shades of gray to them, but Pace describes Ronan as undeniably evil in a recent interview.

"I've never played a character like Ronan before," Pace told Yahoo! Movies. "I like a bombastic villain, and that's what I had a good time doing. It was the most fun playing this character... I was stronger than I've ever been, doing all this training, and the character is just a beast. He's just so evil. At first when I started working on him, I was thinking, 'We've seen so many great performances of villains by very talented actors in superhero movies. I've got to find something relatable about this guy.' But the more I played him, the more fun I had with just being evil. [Laughs] Evil, evil, evil. He's an alien - there's no kind of human rules. There's nothing to relate to, actually. It just became, like, the more dark I could conceive of him, the more I understood him."

The site then jokingly asked him if his eyebrows were his most evil trait, and Pace launched into further detail about Ronan:

"You don't even see my eyebrows!" the actor replied. "It's covered up with that black ceremonial paint. He's like Osama bin Laden - he's like a religious fanatic. It's so cool. When in my life did I think I'd be playing a character like this? When I got the call about this, I was like, 'What? OK, OK... I'm in.' I'd auditioned for Star-Lord, and then Chris [Pratt] obviously got the part... and then they called my agent and said, 'We have another part for him!' So I quickly put that on tape and Ronan worked out."

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