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.
Watch 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:
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?