This made me think of Hans Gruber from Die Hard.
And then all the villians from the other Die Hard movies, except the last one (or the 5th one, is there a 6th one yet?)
Same guy, Alan Rickman, played the villain Marston in Quigley Down Under, using his native British swag. Some actors are ingenious that way. I think the writer from The Atlantic would like all villains to have redneck accents.