“That’s part of the joy of playing a character like that. You know there’s going to be some fight at the end, and you know the morality tale dictates that the bad guy has to lose.” Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo: Warner Bros./Everett Collection There’s a long tradition in American filmmaking of having a sneering, classically trained British actor step in to play the villain in a big-budget production, whether that’s Claude Rains, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, or, in the case of Guy Ritchie’