Mean Character, Nice Actor/Playing With

Basic Trope: The character is mean and nasty, but the actor behind that character is not.
Played Straight: Evil Elliott is played by an actor that happily chats with fans and loves playing in the backyard with his kids.
Exaggerated: Evil Elliott is a Complete Monster, but the actor that plays him is so nice it's almost scary.
Justified: There's a difference between on-set and real life; just because a character is mean doesn't mean the actor is.
Inverted: Nice Character, Mean Actor
Subverted: Evil Elliott is played by an actor who is not mean, but also not very sociable.
- Evil Elliott's actor seems nice enough... but when he makes a convention appearance, a vicious side to him comes out.
Double Subverted: But when that actor is with his family and/or close friends, he's very nice.
- ...Because he's hamming it up for the fans, who love watching him be a bad guy.
Deconstructed: ???
Reconstructed: ???
Parodied: Evil Elliott rapes the Love Interest to The Hero and brags about it, but off the set, the actor apologizes to her and buys her a nice dinner.
Zig Zagged: Sometimes the actor in question is nice, sometimes he's mean.
Lampshaded: "He may be a villain on the set, but when the cameras are off, he's the nicest person I've ever met!"
Averted: Evil Elliott is a cartoon character from a silent cartoon.
- Evil Elliott is played by an actor who is a complete Jerkass.
Enforced: The director wanted the betrayal of Elliot to be extra-shocking so he cast an actor who was not only typecast for pacifists but also an incredibly nice philanthropist.
Invoked: Hoping to shake his image as a jerk, Elliott's actor starts being extra-nice off the set.
Defied: In order to maintain Evil Elliott's Big Bad image, the actor becomes a complete jerk.
Discussed: "In real life, Bob would never act like Evil Elliott. He's just too nice."
Conversed: "It's really unnerving, seeing Bob change from a really nice guy to the monstrous Evil Elliott when he is being filmed. He does do the part well though."

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