persona

In that one locker-room speech dressed as a news-conference answer, he showed his players that this cool persona can be tough and unafraid, and then he took it a step further.

In a movie where most would expect the romantic co-lead to turn out to be the villain, Sklenar’s hard leaning into the affable good-guy persona removes his character from the suspect list early on.

And he even disparages close allies — Canada and Mexico — just to keep the world watching and wondering about his menacing persona.

Delighting in her rainbow-coloured and sometimes provocative persona, she claimed last year to have invented "gay pop".

"In a way he forged a whole new persona," said Angela.