“I wanted to bring some other layers and colors, not just make this Russian a complete murderous revenging bad guy,” Rourke later said. Although he had been able to do this to his satisfaction on the set, he said that, despite his best efforts, most of the nuances of his performance had been clipped out of the movie. “Marvel just wanted a one-dimensional bad guy,” he griped. “If you’re working for the wrong studio or, let’s say, a director that doesn’t have any balls, then they’re just gonna want it to be the evil bad guy.”
