Michael Sheen performed at the ‘Margins to Mainstream’ event last Sunday (February 27) at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, where he “and a supporting cast perform the work of 11 new writers from under-represented backgrounds on a journey to reveal truths from the margins of society” as part of BBC Cymru Wales’ St David’s Day content.
The 11 writers came from the ‘A Writing Chance’ program. The event was recorded to become a podcast on the Welsh radio, which you can listen here.
Michael’s mural will be the third one painted by Port Talbot’s ARTwalk group, who also painted murals of Richard Burton and Peg Entwistle. More below:
Ler maisA giant mural of Michael Sheen is to be painted in Port Talbot as the town plans to bounce back from the loss of Banksy’s ‘Season’s Greeting’ artwork.
The team behind the town’s ARTwalk say they will not let the departure of the famous artist’s artwork deter them from establishing the town as the street art capital of Wales.
“We intend the street art revolution that Season’s Greetings sparked to continue and spread,” said Derek Davies, who manages the Port Talbot ARTwalk Facebook page.
Michael Sheen appeared on the New Year’s Eve episode of The Graham Norton Show, where he talked about Last Train To Christmas, Good Omens fanfiction and one incident during Old Vic’s Hamlet. If you live in UK you can watch the episode on BBC iPlayer.
Check out some photos and screencaptures from his appearance on the talk show:
Michael Sheen, Anna Lundberg, David Tennant, Georgia Tennant, Simon Evans and Lucy Eaton are back in front of their computers for a Staged New Year’s message. Watch it below:
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:
Check out screencaptures of Michael Sheen as Tony Towers in the latest Sky Original production Last Train To Christmas, available on Sky Cinema and NOW, as well as some production stills and posters:
In case you missed (or want to listen to again) the delightful Christmas Day with Michael Sheen programme on BBC Radio Wales aired today (December 25), you can listen to it clicking on the links below (available for 29 days):
Part one
Part two
Evening edition (with extra content in the second hour)
Michael Sheen hosted a special two-hour Christmas show in which he played Christmas songs, read extracts from Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas in Wales and recieved guests the likes of David Tennant, Matthew Rhys, Dame Sîan Williams, Charlotte Church and more.
Michael Sheen made a guest appearance on ‘A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas: Beauty and the Beast,’ aired on BBC Two last Sunday (December 19), as Mr. Sheen. If you live in UK you can watch it on BBC iPlayer.
Check out the screencaptures from the show:
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.