In a brand new interview ahead of Nye run at Wales Millennium Centre, in Cardiff, Michael Sheen also talked about Wales, playing Prince Andrew, directing The Way and reveals he knows how Good Omens will end. Read the full interview below:
Ler maisCheck out screencaptures of Michael Sheen’s TV directorial debut The Way, available on BBC iPlayer, in which he also stars as Denny Driscoll:
On February 5, The Way was previewed at BFI Southbank and it was followed by a Q&A session with The preview will be followed by a Q&A with creators Michael Sheen and James Graham, producer Adam Curtis, cast members Steffan Rhodri, Mali Harries and Callum Scott Howells The preview will be followed by a Q&A with creators Michael Sheen and James Graham, cast members Steffan Rhodri, Mali Harries and Callum Scott Howells and executive producer Bethan Jones. Now you can watch it in all its glory below:
Michael Sheen gave an interview to The Sunday Times Culture magazine, published on its February 11 issue, in which he talks The Way, Nye, A Very Royal Scandal and why he doesn’t want to go back to Hollywood.
You can find the scans of the magazine on the photo gallery:
Now to the interview…
Ler maisWatch below the official trailer for The Way, starring and directed by Michael Sheen, set to come to BBC iPlayer from 6am on Monday 19 February, and to air BBC One at 9pm with episodes airing weekly:
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Read below new interview Michael Sheen gave to the BBC, in which he also tells how the miniseries was always going to be political:
When Michael Sheen was filming clashes between steelworkers and riot police in his home town Port Talbot, little did he know 2,000 jobs at its steelworks would be at risk by the time it premiered.
“We had no idea when we were developing the story what would be happening at the steelworks when this came out,” he said.
“It’s incredibly unfortunate that the story we’ve written has come bizarrely very close to the truth.”
Speaking ahead of The Way’s premiere at Port Talbot’s Reel Cinema, he insisted the three-part BBC drama – originally conceived in 2016 – was a fictional story and not about the Tata steelworks.
“But obviously, knowing the town, knowing the relationship the town has with the steelworks, knowing the insecurities and the anxieties that have always been there in my lifetime around employment and work there – that was part of what drew us to setting the story in this town,” said Sheen, 55, who both directed and starred in the drama.
Ler maisSpeaking with Deadline, Michael Sheen also revealed why he assembled Adam Curtis and James Graham to the project. More below:
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Sheen, Adam Curtis and James Graham‘s BBC drama The Way has been gestating for almost a decade but, for Good Omens star Sheen, the wait has been a necessary one.
As the BBC prepares to launch the drama set in Sheen’s hometown of Port Talbot, he told Deadline the pandemic and other recent events played an important role in shaping the script and believability of the three-part series, which is one of the broadcaster’s most anticipated of the year, bringing together three of the nation’s supreme creative talents.
Starring Sheen, who is making his directorial debut, Luke Evans (The Hobbit), Callum Scott Howells (It’s a Sin) and a wealth of talented Welsh actors, The Way tells the story of an ordinary family caught up in an extraordinary chain of events that ripple out from their home town. Driven by celebrated documentary maker Curtis, the drama takes an experimental approach by imagining a civil uprising in a small industrial Welsh town. Fleeing unrest, the Driscolls are forced to escape the country they’ve always called home and the certainties of their old lives, but will they be overwhelmed by their memories of the past or lay their ghosts to rest and take the risk of an unknown future?
Sheen said the idea had always been to make a story about an “explosion of unrest” as “believable” as possible. Before the pandemic, the team initially dismissed ideas around making an entire population remain indoors, or placing a hard border around Wales.
“Lockdown gave the story a whole new lease of life,” he told Deadline. “When it ended we revisited the story and it allowed us to be bolder, particularly around ideas of conspiracies and Covid. We knew it was ‘of the moment’ and didn’t want something to feel dated, but we didn’t ever imagine it would be quite as timely as it has turned out to be.”
Ler maisIn interview with The Guardian, Michael Sheen tells how the new BBC miniseries came about, working in his hometown for the second time after The Passion and more. Read the full interview below:
New TV series The Way sees Sheen team up with documentary legend Adam Curtis and Sherwood writer James Graham – to start a rebellion. The team talk dirt, destruction and civil war
One Friday last month a demonstration was held outside the Port Talbot steelworks in south Wales, protesting the closure of the site’s two main blast furnaces. The demonstration was peaceful, passed off without incident and earned a brief mention on the evening news. But suppose for a moment that it had gone the other way. Suppose it spiralled into violence and sparked a full-blown Welsh rebellion. In which case, Port Talbot is no longer a fading industrial town. It’s a hotbed of revolution; a signpost to the future.
This, in a nutshell, is the premise of The Way, a boisterous BBC drama about a parallel Britain that’s just a shuffle step from our own. It’s a tale of civil war and family strife, a series that installs a militarised hard border between England and Wales and effectively turns all the Celts into outlaws. It used to be that people visited border town Hay-on-Wye to buy books. Now they come seeking shelter and a secret route into England.
Ler maisMichael Sheen will be attending the preview, followed by a Q&A session with James Graham, cast members and EP Bethan Jones. More details below:
Further TV events in February will include previews of The Way (Michael Sheen, 2024, BBC/Red Seam in association with Little Door Productions) on 5 February and This Town (Paul Whittington, 2024, BBC/Kudos/Nebulastar/Stigma Films/Mercury Studios) on 26 February. Created by Michael Sheen, James Graham and Adam Curtis, The Way taps into the social and political chaos of today’s world by imagining a civil uprising that begins in a small industrial town. The preview will be followed by a Q&A with creators Michael Sheen and James Graham, cast members Steffan Rhodri, Mali Harries and Callum Scott Howells and executive producer Bethan Jones.
You can buy tickets to the event here.
The new three-part drama is written by James Graham and co-created with Adam Curtis and is set to be filmed in and around Port Talbot. More below:
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