Read below an interview Michael Sheen has given to Australian paper The Saturday Paper, in which he discusses Amadeus and revisits his career:
Ler maisMichael Sheen spoke with Metro UK’s ‘Sixty Seconds’ about Vardy v Rooney: A Courtroom Drama, Staged season 3, doing Amadeus and his stay in Australia. More below:
Ler maisRead below an interview Michael Sheen gave to news.com.au in which he talked about Amadeus for the second time, visiting Sydney and career choices:
Ler maisMichael Sheen has revealed to Far Out magazine a list of his 10 all time favorite songs, which includes Manic Street Preachers, Radiohead, Bob Dylan and more. Read more below:
Ler maisIn a new interview for the Sydney Morning Herald, Michael Sheen discusses playing Amadeus as both Mozart in 1999 and as Salieri now, his career and what his first stay in Australia has been like. A couple of photos of him at the Sydney Opera House have been released. Check them out on our photo gallery:
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Ler maisLast Monday (October 10) Michael Sheen was announced as a new Homeless World Cup Champion along with Cristina Rodlo, Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Honey Thaljieh. The tournament will return in 2023 and they will be supporting the Foundation across the next 12 months.
Mel Young, Founder and President of the Homeless World Cup, said:
Ler maisThe former British prime minister and the actor who’s played him three times talked via Zoom about British identity, Britain’s place in the world, the belief in better and more for this week’s New Statesman issue. Read it below:
Ler maisOn a Sunday afternoon in mid-February, Michael Sheen and Tony Blair laughed when they first saw one another on Zoom. They are two very different national figures, but their careers are nevertheless entwined, the actor having played the former prime minister three times – most notably opposite Helen Mirren’s Elizabeth II in the 2006 biopic The Queen.
Sheen no longer looked eerily like Blair. Dialling in from Glasgow, where he was filming a new series of Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens, his thick curls had been replaced by a short shock of peroxide blond. Blair, in turn, had cut the long hair he grew during the pandemic, described in the British press as his “lockdown mullet”.
“You look younger,” Blair said. “My lockdown hairstyle was much commented on –but not that I looked younger.”
They had met to talk about the meaning of Britain, which has changed greatly since Blair left office in 2007, and since Sheen last played him in the 2010 television film The Special Relationship (opposite Dennis Quaid as Bill Clinton). During the tumultuous decade since its release, a succession of Conservative-led governments have shrunk the state after the largesse and renewal of the New Labour years. The UK has left the European Union, its identity now split between Little Englander neurosis and Global Britain fantasy – a messy rejection of the globalisation synonymous with Blairism. With the creation of an Irish Sea border, and a Brexit-sceptic Scotland, the Union itself is under threat.
Speaking a week before Russia invaded Ukraine, the two men discussed what a “British Dream” should be, the future of the Labour Party, and the UK’s changing role in the world – questions that have become more urgent since the outbreak of war.
Representing different traditions of the left, Sheen and Blair clashed over what went wrong for Jeremy Corbyn and how Labour can win again, but agreed on one fundamental challenge: watching oneself on screen.
In an interview featured on the Christmas 2021 issue of Total Film magazine, Michael Sheen answers some film quotes posed as questions about his first fight, horror movies, his fears and more. Check out the scan on our photo gallery:
Find out Michael’s first grown-up book he read, first movie he saw at the cinema and more:
Ler maisFirst TV show I watched religiously
Monkey was a Japanese TV series on the BBC. It was about a monkey, a pig and a fish. They were all on a pilgrimage with a Buddhist monk called Tripitaka, who was male, but played by a woman. Monkey had a magic staff which was big, but he could make it very little and put it in his ear, and he would travel on a cloud.First trip to the theatre
It would have been at the Dolman Theatre in Newport; probably a Gilbert and Sullivan show like The Pirates of Penzance or a classic musical like Oklahoma! or Carousel. The first professional play I saw was As You Like It at the RSC in Stratford with Fiona Shaw and Alan Rickman.
In a new interview for Independent, Michael Sheen discusses Last Train To Christmas, shares his opinions on Boris Johnson, talks about becoming a non-profit actor, cancel culture and more. Read it below:
Ler maisMichael Sheen isn’t one to mince his words. Even before Boris Johnson finds himself at the centre of the Christmas party scandal, the Welsh star of Frost/Nixon has our PM in his crosshairs. “He’s the absolute worst of what politics can be,” says the 52-year-old, his voice rich and lilting. “A man who doesn’t seem to care or believe in anything other than his own advancement, and, as a result of immense privilege, has been able to get to the most powerful position in the country and then doesn’t use it to make people’s lives better. Everything is a game to him.” Sheen stops, reloads. “He seems to have no personal ethics, morals, beliefs, value system. So I will be immensely happy to see the back of him, not just from being prime minister but out of the political arena altogether. I hope he goes off and finds a job that has no influence whatsoever on anything in our cultural, social or economic life.” Deep breath. Exhale. “And good luck to him with that.”
Disconcertingly, Sheen delivers this diatribe while sporting a shock of white blond hair, like a vertiginously quiffed version of the Boris bouffant. Unlike Johnson, though, he doesn’t seem to be spouting hot air. The actor, after all, sold his houses to bankroll the 2019 Homeless World Cup. The following year he revealed that he’d handed back the OBE he was awarded in 2009 for fear of being, in his words, a hypocrite. And earlier this month, he declared himself a “not-for-profit actor”, pledging to use future earnings to fund social projects. He’s a walk-walker in a crowd of talk-talkers. That there is any hair similarity today – Sheen’s mane is ordinarily dark, scraggly and flecked with grey – is down to him currently filming a second series of Good Omens, Amazon’s devilishly entertaining adaptation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s apocalyptic novel.