The Role: Jack Forrester

Why It’s The Best: Bridges bagged this role when Kevin Costner turned it down. He's Jack Forrester, a man accused of murder when his wife is brutally killed in a remote beach house.

Hiring Teddy Barnes (Glenn Close) as his defence attorney, he becomes romantically involved with her as she fights to prove he’s innocent.

Iconic Moment: After the trial is over, all seems well with the world. Until Barnes starts to suspect that things might not be as tied up as she suspected…

Jeff Says: “I read a book by M. Scott Peck called People Of The Lie. And it was his study of evil people and what evil was all about. It was about selfishness, putting the self above everything else. So that book helped me a lot.

“As far as people I modelled him after, I really looked into myself, my own dark side for that. I tried to imagine what it would be like to be a sociopath.

“There's something about that idea that's very attractive to most of us, to do just exactly what you want to do. To just satisfy your own impulses. To me the theme of that character was what that kind of evil costs, because ultimately what we all want is love. To be loved and to express love.

“Of course when you're that evil and self-concerned, you're the most unlovable that you can be. What you really want, you can't have, because you can't let somebody know who you really are.”