Characterization
Deeming Azazel to be "an angry soul", actor Fredric Lehne believes that him being "denied Heaven and everything else that's good in the universe" has " into anger and vengeance". A demon with a sense of humor, he takes pleasure in seeing people suffer. "The more pain—mostly psychological pain—he causes, the happier he is," Lehne explained. "He gets off on the power of turning people to his will." This quality suggests to the actor why the demon favored Sam as the potential leader of his army. Being the "most ripe for picking" because he had the "sweetest" heart, Sam was "most desirable for corrupting" of all the children. "If I could turn him," Lehne noted, "then I had truly won."
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