In an interview for the Telegraph, Michael Sheen also talked about his past roles, returning his OBE and more:
Ler maisMichael Sheen can turn himself into anyone, from Blair to Frost. The chameleon’s latest trick? Six transformations in a single film
In an acting career that has seen him play such luxuriantly coiffed men as Tony Blair and David Frost, Michael Sheen has found himself in some pretty hairy situations. Last year, as game-show host Chris Tarrant in Quiz, the ITV drama about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’s “coughing major” scandal, he wore a bald cap beneath a toupee the colour of summer wheat. In Amazon’s fantasy series Good Omens – in which he’s fretful angel Aziraphale to David Tennant’s demonic Crowley – he sports mutton chops the likes of which, he says, we’ve not seen “since the glory days of 1970s Welsh rugby”.
But his latest role might represent his greatest wig-out yet. In Last Train to Christmas, a poignant time-travel fantasy film, Sheen plays Nottingham’s king of nightclubs, Tony Towers, whose champagne-swilling hubris is sorely tested as he travels home for the festive season on a train like no other. Whenever a baffled Towers moves between carriages, he finds himself transported from one decade to the next – and his hair keeps pace, morphing from 1970s rocker’s shag to 1980s mullet to 1990s daytime-DJ bouffant and beyond.
Last Monday night (November 29) Michael Sheen and David Tennant were seen filming scenes for the second season of Good Omens in Edinburgh (UK). Since they were wearing period costume, a spoiler alert applies here, so check out the photos on our photo gallery at your own risk!
Ler maisWatch now the first trailer for Last Train To Christmas, starring Michael Sheen and Nathalie Emmanuel, to be released on Sky Cinema on December 18:
Screencaptures from the trailer, as well as two brand new promotional stills from the movie, are up on our photo gallery:
The second season of Staged, aired last January, has recieved two nominations in this year’s I Talk Telly Awards: Best Returning Comedy and Best Comedy Partnership (Michael Sheen and David Tennant). See the nominees below:
Best Returning Comedy
Back to Life
Feel Good
Ghosts
Inside No.9
Sex Education
Staged
Stath Lets Flats
This Way Up
Best Comedy Partnership
Aidy Bryant & Lolly Adefope – Shrill
Charlotte Ritchie & Mae Martin – Feel Good
Daniel Mays & Stephen Graham – Code 404
David Tennant & Michael Sheen – Staged
Jane Fonda & Lily Tomlin – Grace and Frankie
Jane Horrocks & Samson Kayo – Bloods
Johnny Vegas & Sian Gibson – Murder, They Hope
Jon Richardson & Lucy Beaumont – Meet the Richardsons
Last year the first season won two prizes for Best New Comedy and Best Comedy Partnership.
You can vote here until Wednesday November 24 at 11.59pm GMT. The winners will be announced on Wednesday December 8 at italktelly.com.
Good luck to Michael, David and the whole Staged team!
Michael Sheen has announced the launch of ‘Mab Gwalia’, a Welsh drama student scholarship scheme funded in partnership with Welsh band Manic Street Preachers. Here’s what he’s said about the project:
Ler mais“Opportunity should not only be available to those who can afford it.
Access to the best drama training should be a possibility for all those with sufficient talent and dedication regardless of their financial background.
As I have got older I have become more and more aware of how much the career that I have had was only made possible because of the support of a great many people.
I have also realised that unless ALL our voices and experiences are represented in the stories that we tell then ALL of us are worse off for it.
It is to this end that I am setting up the Mab Gwalia Welsh Drama Student Scholarship, funded by myself and Manic Street Preachers.
Each academic year up to £15,000 will be available to support up to three eligible students, based on financial circumstances and a personal statement.”
The BBC lockdown series Staged has been nominated as Best Comedy in the prestigious 60th annual Rose d’Or Awards. The other nominees in the category are:
Famalam – BBC Studios/BBC Three/UK
Motherland – Merman Television/Twofour/Lionsgate/BBC Two/UK
Bo Burnham: Inside – Netflix/USA
Journey (Vegferd) – Glassriver/Keshet International/Channel 2/Iceland
The New Black 2 – Dori Media Darset/Dori Media International/HOT/Israel
Staged – Infinity Hill/GCB Films/No Mystery/Rainmaker Content Limited/BBC One/UK
The winners of this year’s Rose d’Or Awards will be announced on November 29 in a virtual ceremony hosted by Sue Perkins on rosedor.com.
Wishing the team Staged the best of luck!
Michael Sheen and David Tennant are back as our favorite angel and demon Aziraphale and Crowley in brand new images from the Good Omens set, shared by Neil Gaiman today. Check them out on our photo gallery:
British channel Sky announced today that Michael Sheen and Nathalie Emmanuel are starring in a Sky Original film called Last Train To Christmas, written and directed by Julian Kemp and set to be released on Sky Cinema and streaming service NOW on December 18. This is the synopsis:
Ler maisTony Towers (Sheen) is about to take the trip of a lifetime. It’s 1985 and he’s a successful nightclub manager, a local celebrity and engaged to a much younger woman, Sue (Emmanuel). Things are going great. But when he embarks upon the 3:17 to Nottingham for a Christmas family reunion, things get a little strange. Moving up a carriage to the buffet car lands him in 1995, where he finds his clubs have failed and his life has fallen apart. Tony discovers that by moving up and down this fateful train, he can transport himself forward and backward to various stages of his life. Not only that, but the actions he takes in one carriage directly affect his life in the next. The question is, can Tony change his life – and the lives of the people he loves – for the better, or will he just make things worse?
The second season of Good Omens filming has begun! At least for Michael Sheen, who shared a first photo from his trailer in the set Scotland:
Michael Sheen and his partner Anna Lundberg were guests on the celebrity special episode of Gogglebox for Stand Up To Cancer, aired last Friday Night (October 15) on Channel 4. The campaign raised over £15 million to fund their work.
Watch the episode here and check out the screencaptures on out gallery:
EDIT: You’ll find below another option to watch Gogglebox, this time on YouTube: