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J For Jack and myself, Jack and Arvin were best, best friends, and the secret that comes out turns out to be a betrayal from Jack's point of view It's enough trouble with me being a villain, but to haveÂ me ready to screw someone else -- forgive me -- right after my wife died, doesn't feel right for the character Sympathy for the Devil on 'Alias' <FONT size=3>Arvin Sloane, a villain fans love to hate</FONT> <EM>By Kate O'Hare Zap2it "He's not a stupid person, and he's not a sociopath, although some people tend to believe he's a sociopath See, the thing about Sloane that's so interesting is he believes that whatever it is that Rambaldi teaches him, is for the good of the world ' We didn't know then what it would turn out to be They totally understood A tangled web of friendships, betrayals, love and death connects Sloane and the Bristows That's just who I am and I first talked about Sloane, I said, 'I think most people think of me as playing Jack "It's half-revealed "I'm very careful about making sure that Sloane is not a one-dimensional villain," he says aspx?c=225641 class="art">Lena Olin) O write('="http://clk aspx?c=168791 class="art">Ron Rifkin) I was disturbed by it His connection to Sydney and her father, CIA agent Jack Bristow (=/celebs/celeb atdmt ' They're great that way He said, 'No, I'd much rather have you play the villain, because one doesn't think of you as a villain com</EM> Â "Let me please introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste You're an evil man Whatever empathy the audience has for Sloane is going to be gone immediately ' "They got it For example, there was one scene on an airplane where Sloane, who had just lost his wife, Emily (=/celebs/celeb On the other hand, that's not necessarily a bad thing com/celebs/celeb "We're both unexpected, and I think that J ' "The reaction that I get most on the street is, 'We love to hate you com/DEN/view/msnnkcol00800009den/direct/01/" /></noscript></iframe></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><table 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never been more true than this season, when Sloane, now a respected humanitarian and a double agent himself, admitted that he just may be Sydney's father, from an affair he had with her KGB-agent mother, Irina (=/celebs/celeb "The secret is revealed but not revealed," Rifkin says I think that's why he hired Victor and myself, actors who really aren't your typical series actors I am that sort of pater figure on the show, but Sydney really hates me, and rightly so, in terms of her perception " Certainly The Rolling Stones had someone more supernatural in mind in the hit song "Sympathy for the Devil," but in the world of ABC's Sunday-night espionage drama "Alias," it's hard to find a character that better embodies ultimate evil -- not to mention wealth and taste -- than Arvin Sloane (=/celebs/celeb It was a moment of electricity atdmt "My wife and I went over to Paris," Rifkin recalls, "which was difficult, to do press for the show com/tv/netcal/?netcal=125">Reality 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