The BBC TV special, which will feature around 35 interviewers who are autistic, neurodivergent or learning disabled, is set to air in April and is based on French show Les Rencontres Du Papotin. More below:
Ler maisOn Sunday, February 18, Michael Sheen and Anna Lundberg hit the red carpet of the EE British Academy Film Awards 2024, hosted by David Tennant. He starred in a Staged-like opening sketch in which David has to find a dogsitter for Bark Ruffalo, Michael’s dog, so that he could host the ceremony.
Check out below photos and videos of Michael’s appearance, plus the sketch:
As host of the BAFTAs, David Tennant answered questions from the Guardian readers, and one of them was about kissing Michael Sheen in Good Omens season 2. Check out his answer below:
What was it like kissing Michael Sheen [in season two of Good Omens]? And who enjoyed it more? carnies18
Who enjoyed it the most? Presumably Michael was thrilled. How could he not be? But it was another day at work. The most difficult bit was other people’s awkwardness. We thought it was quite fun, so it was fine. He’d brushed his teeth.
Watch below the official trailer for Nye starring Michael Sheen as Auberin Bevan, opening in the Olivier Theatre on February 24, in the Wales Millennium Centre on May 18 and coming to cinemas with the National Theater Live broadcast on April 23:
You’ll find screencaptures from the trailer on the gallery:
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 maisOn February 9 Michael Sheen appeared on The Graham Norton Show to promote the upcoming BBC drama The Way and the National Theatre and Wales Millennium Centre production Nye. Check out on the gallery update photos and screencaptures from the talk show:
Watch 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:
I’ve also updated the gallery update with screencaptures from the trailer. Check them out:
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 maisMichael Sheen as been announced as one of the guests of The Graham Norton Show episode to be aired on Febuary 9 on BBC One to promote The Way and possibly Nye. Ian McKellen, Ambika Mod and Josh Widdicombe also join Norton’s couch.
The Graham Norton Show airs on BBC One at 10.40pm UK Time.