In a recent interview, Rhys Ifans, best known for his role as Xenophilius Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, discussed his role as the villainess Lizard in The Amazing Spider-Man!

The Lizard is a character we know the least amount about as The Amazing Spider-Man continues production.  Rhys Ifans recently gave some insight into his character, discussing the difference between villains who are less evil and more flawed, from those who are just plain evil.

Curt Connors is by no stretch an evil villain. He’s not like the Batman villains, like the Joker, who are the embodiment of evil. Curtis Connors is a great man who makes a bad decision.  That’s the whole magic of the Spider-Man idea. These people are the embodiment of our flaws and our desires that lead to tragedy. Curt Connors is a man with one arm and he wants to grow his arm back. He has access to a science that can enable that. But he has to make a moral decision, an ethical decision, to achieve that. In a story both he and Peter Parker are presented with these amazing abilities, and it’s about this gift that life gives us. More than any other super-hero, Spider-Man presents us with something very local in its ethics. It’s not messianic. It’s far more tangible. He is, again, a working-class hero.

It sounds like Ifans knows the character of The Lizard quite well.  Looking back at the original Spider-Man trilogy, we have mostly gotten villains who were less evil and more flawed.  Does it disappoint you that we still haven’t gotten a completely evil villain for Spidey on screen? Let us know!