Tim Roth gives clinics on how to be the villain

WITH HIS 1982 film debut as a window-smashing skinhead teen in "Made in Britain" and his Oscar-nominated sadist fop in the Highlands period drama " Rob Roy," Tim Roth has routinely been considered one of film's most exciting performers. The actor, though, has at times gotten bored with it all and considered quitting. To keep fresh, he's taken less-than-desirable jobs so he can then do the smaller, more stimulating gigs that don't pay anything -- only to have lingering bad feelings over the money gig.

By Robert Abele

June 12, 2008