Check out on the photo gallery screencaptures of Michael Sheen as Dr. Blair Müdfly in Dolittle, movie that was released in last January with Robert Downey Jr., Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson, Rami Malek, Selena Gomez, Tom Holland and more:
Dolittle was released on Friday and unfortunately is getting panned by critics, currently rotten at 18% on Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer (79% at the audience score). There are some lovely words for Michael’s performance as Dr. Blair Müdfly, which you can read below:
Our reluctant hero [Dolittle] will have to voyage to both of the other locations that weren’t cut out during reshoots, and he’ll have to get there before the chinless doctor Müdfly (a delicious Michael Sheen, making a glorious meal out of table scraps) is able to find the magic whatsit for himself.
Ler mais(…) the only wholly successful element of Dolittle is its villain. Michael Sheen plays Dr. Blair Müdfly, personal doctor to the queen of England and rival to the legendary Dolittle. Where Downey is fumbling with a clumsy Welsh accent and mawkish melancholy, Sheen is on fire, incensed by Müdfly’s jealousy and embracing this property’s camp past. With a severe goatee, bulging eyes, and a voice ever on the verge of breaking into a squeal of rage, Sheen gifts this fumbling film a surge of energy and hilarious pettiness. Perhaps the joke that proved the most silly yet satisfying is when Dolittle mutters that the man is a “chinless wonder,” then the cut leaps across leagues of open ocean to Müdfly’s warship where he’s looking through a spyglass and yelps, “I think he said something about my chin!” Sheen is the only one who seems to truly embrace what over-the-top fun this could have been. Bless him.
Read below a long but great interview Michael gave to Collider in which he talked about Dolittle and working with Robert Downey Jr., Good Omens, Quiz, Prodigal Son, and The Way, a three-part series he is directing:
I recently sat down with Michael Sheen, who stars as the villainous Dr. Blair Müdfly in director Stephen Gaghan’s Dolittle, opening this weekend. While sitting in his trailer on the Universal backlot, Sheen and I had a wide-ranging conversation about working with Robert Downey Jr. and spending so much time looking at a tennis ball on set, the success of Amazon’s Good Omens, his idea for a Columbo episode, why he agreed to co-star on Prodigal Son, his upcoming limited series Quiz (which is about a huge Who Wants To Be A Millionaire scandal in Britian), being in an episode of The Simpsons, how he’s getting ready to direct a three-part series called The Way, and a lot more.
As you’ve seen in the trailers, Dolittle stars Downey Jr. as the famed doctor that can talk to animals. After his wife dies, Dolittle retreats behind his castle walls until being tasked to try and save the young Queen (Jessie Buckley) from a deadly illness. As he travels the world looking for a mythical island, he’s joined on his quest by a young apprentice (Harry Collett) and numerous animals that are voiced by Emma Thompson, John Cena, Tom Holland, Rami Malek, Craig Robinson, Ralph Fiennes, Selena Gomez, Octavia Spencer, Kumail Nanjiani, and Marion Cotillard. Dolittle also stars Antonio Banderas and Jim Broadbent.
Check out what Michael Sheen had to say below.
Ler maisIn an interview to the website The Beat, Michael talks about what it was like to work with Robert Downey Jr, the possibitily of doing more Good Omens and more:
Dolittle antagonist Michael Sheen has been crushing his way through all forms of entertainment media for a few decades now, from theater to movies and lately, television, the latter taking up most of his time in recent years. Depending on your interests might determine the work of his that you’re most familiar with, whether it’s “The Twilight Saga,” his work with writer Peter Morgan (The Crown) on The Queen and Frost/Nixon or some of his television work, like Masters of Sex – or fan favorite Good Omens.
In the new family fantasy-adventure Dolittle, Sheen plays Dr. Blair Müdfly, doctor to Queen Victoria and the ersatz arch-rival of Robert Downey Jr’s titular Doctor John Dolittle, a physician with the ability to talk to animals who has disappeared from the public view after the tragic death of his wife, Lily. Dolittle’s only friends are the animals that surround him at his estate until a young lad named Stubbins (Harry Collett from Dunkirk) stumbles onto the grounds. When Victoria (Jessie Buckley) falls ill, Dolittle is called back to London, but in order to find a cure, he must travel with his animals to the far sides of the globe. Of course, Müdfly isn’t happy about Dolittle’s interference.
Besides those mentioned above, the cast includes Antonio Banderas and Jim Broadbent, as well as a slew of actors providing their voices for various animals, including Emma Thompson, Octavia Spencer, Rami Malek, John Cena, Kumail Nanjiani and Craig Robinson.
The Beat had a chance to get on the phone line with Mr. Sheen last week, and we did throw in a question about his possible return as the angel Aziraphale for any sort of follow-up to Amazon’s series based on Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s novel, Good Omens.
Ler maisWe’ve updated our photo gallery with screencaptures from an on set interview with Michael Sheen and a b-roll video from Dolittle. Check them out!
Watch an interview Michael gave to Indo-American website SocialNews.XYZ in which he discusses Dr. Blair Müdfly, his character in Dolittle, working with Robert Downey Jr., CGI and more. Don’t forget to check out some screencaptures from the video on the photo gallery.
Michael Sheen and his partner Anna Lundberg attended the world premiere of Dolittle that took place today at the Regency Village Theatre, Los Angeles, USA. Other stars like Robert Downey Jr., Rami Malek, John Cena and Selena Gomez were there as well. Check out some photos of the event and the after party on our gallery:
We can finally have a first look at Michael Sheen as Mudfly in ‘Dolittle’ (yes, Mudfly is human). In an interview to The Telegraph last year, he talked about his character, who he claims to be “a villain in the tradition of Terry-Thomas villains”:
He’s Blair Müdfly – there’s an umlaut that he is very specific about. He was at college with Dolittle, and hates him, and becomes the antagonist because of his jealousy of Dolittle. Müdfly is employed to try and stop Dolittle from finding… what he wants to find.
Check out the new still on the photo gallery:
The official poster and trailer for Dolittle reboot were released on this weekend. The movie, starring Robert Downey Jr. as the title character and Michael as Mugfly, will be out on January 15th 2020, and also includes Antonio Banderas and Jim Broadbent in the “human” cast, as well as Tom Holland, Selena Gomez, Ralph Fiennes, Rami Malek, Kumail Nanjiani, Emma Thompson, Octavia Spencer, and John Cena in the animal voice cast.
Watch the trailer below:
Check out the first poster on the photo gallery:
