#But I also I just love Michael Sheen with his curly beard and hair

[obsessedobsesser]

I just wanna jump back in here to say, how could anyone not want

Just gotta imagine✨blonde✨

Bearded Aziraphale.

Am I right?

[optimisticartistic]

Anyway here's my

Personal* Fan-Cast for Malevolent

Arthur: Dan Stevens

He's a certified Weird Little British Guy with a 10/10 murder glare. See Apostle (2018) for two hours of s3 Arthur you're welcome.

Parker: John Harlan Kim

Look at his FACE and tell me you would not also immediately fall for him.

Noel/Charlie: David Shields

If I can't have Humphrey Bogart then /willsmithpose

Oscar: Michael Sheen

Look the curly hair to me is non-negotiable. Personally I like him with more of a beard but this is an excellent start.

Daniel: Colin Firth

I don't think I really need to explain this one.

Collins: Michael Shannon

Just shave him. Just- just shave this man and we good to go.

Larson: Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Sir I'm sorry to slander you like this, you seem like a sweetheart, but GOD you play a fantastic slimeball.

Kayne: Kieran Culkin

I'm not entirely joking? I think he's neat, I think he's got the manic energy to pull it off.

And for some ladies~

Bella: Rachel Weisz

Queen. Look I don't care that she's like 50 now she's still *stunning*

Marie: Imelda Staunton

Again I don't have an explanation it's just Vibes

*This is entirely my own opinion, if you have other actors you think suit I would genuinely love to see them!

[thefudge]

oh. my. gosh. that michael sheen/jameela TGP AU! u can't leave it like that! GIMME MORE MORE MORE

OMGOSH sorry for replying to this AGES later bUT

im so happy u wanna know more cuz 

okay JUST IMAGINE

the gang arriving at the good place proper next season and one of the architects/michael-stand-ins over there is the michael sheen character who, for less confusion, i will call Arthur. Now, Arthur (played by michael sheen) is one of the many Good Place clerks who will take offense at the implication that the system hasn’t been running well for centuries, but he’ll take offense in this perfectly cheery passive-aggressive way (basically a mixture of aziraphale and crowley) and he’ll try to undermine the team’s efforts under the guise of helping.

you know who else is sometimes passive-aggressively cheery due to high societal pressures? our GRL the qween herself, the one and only Tahani. and Arthur (remember, michael sheen character) will immediately see a mirror/ally in tahani. U KNOW WHY? because of all the ppl in the gang she’s the only one who can truly talk Arthur’s language. i picture the scene of the first time they interact and it’s just delicious, because they can’t seem to one-up each other, they talk and flatter each other emptily while giggling in frustration and it’s THE BEST cuz there’s also weird sexual tension? i should point out michael sheen would be wearing his mensch beard for this and curly hair and a dope-ass suit, CUZ SUE ME. oh and while all of this is going on you hear eleanor from the sidelines going “whew, this must be the cotillion edition of real housewives of atlanta”. 

BUT THE THING IS while Tahani decides “okay, this man/angel is a male version of my sister, i’m done with that toxicity, i need to be the bigger person” Arthur the poor fool is completely ENTRANCED and is crushing HARD and TAHANI CAN’T TELL because she’s not used to anyone preferring her and putting her first, not really. plus, she thinks Arthur is out to get her. cuz despite having so many celebrity friends and connections she doesn’t feel genuinely loved. ANYWAY it gets HILARIOUS because Tahani keeps seeing his interest in her as his passive-aggressive attempt to outshine her. for instance Arthur keeps forwarding these invitations like “would you care to help me design this park” (cuz he’s promised to listen to ideas from the group) and Tahani thinks he’s just trying to make it a competition but the poor fool just WANTS TO SPEND TIME WITH HER! I LIVE FOR THIS SHIT

anyway i just LOVE LOVE the concept of Tahani getting one of the big VIP angels/architects to fall for her while not making any efforts, like oh she’s made a celebrity conquest and she doesn’t know it!!! I LIVE FOR THIS SHIT X 10000

oh OH and i forgot to mention, the first time Arthur sees her it’s gotta be one of those slow-mo things

like picture Arthur and a bunch of other Good Place bureaucrats welcoming the outcast Cockroach Team into their neighborhood and everyone is feeling wary about these intruders, and there’s this ominous music playing when the two groups finally meet, and THEN the moment Arthur sees and hears Tahani talk (she’d be the first to examine the place critically and make a totally innocent passive aggressive remark about how the faux-neighborhood Michael designed in the Bad Place was much more chic and ergonomic), i just picture THIS SONG going thru Arthur’s head like INSTANTLY  because GODDAMN (God pun intended!) SOULMATE. i picture some hilarious editing where she’s walking in slow-mo, waving her arm dismissively at the neighborhood while she tosses her hair and smiles in a queenly fashion, and all Arthur can hear is “you’re so fine, lose my mind, and the world seems to disappear” and then cut to no music as the other bureaucrats ask Arthur what’s going on, and he has to act like he’s obviously FINE ahahahaha. but as he goes to greet the group his eyes keep sliding to Tahani and I LIVE FOR THIS SHIT YALL!!!!

anyway, stay tuned for more arthur/tahani content  (#arhani)

[milehighmegs]

I, too, have been seeing a lot of shade thrown in Mr. Sheen's direction regarding this role, not the least of which is his appearance. I don't remember hearing about Christian Bale catching a heap of shit for gaining weight for 'American Hustle' or Matt Damon for 'The Informant!'. What I have heard is male actors like Hugh Jackman, Jason Momoa, & Vin Diesel catching a world of criticism for "letting themselves go" when they were off-screen.

Guess what folks: they did that because they finally got a break from the extremely unrealistic expectations WE (the general we) hold for them BECAUSE they are actors and WE can't seem to separate the character from the actual person. They were no longer contractually obligated to keep up a specific body style/composition, they could finally fucking RELAX and not kill themselves in the gym or be forced to eat like a broke college student for months on end SO THEY DID. This works in reverse, too: if an actor chooses to go all in on a character's appearance for the sake of a realistic portrayal, that's between them & the production team. Michael takes his job seriously, and if his performance made you vom in your throat, IT'S BECAUSE HE DID HIS JOB. Prince Andrew is not meant to be eye-fucked, so Sheen's acting was a spectacular success for the pure & simple reason that irl he's a beautiful person, inside and out.

Also, this thing that we all do at some point called AGE tends to put weight on a body. Wrinkles show up on one's face. Grey starts to appear in one's hair. Things wobble that didn't used to wobble before. It's inevitable, and for anyone to portray aging and all the "undesirable" things that go with it as a BAD thing... well, they can all get fucked, and take their Botox'd, collagen-lipped, BBL'd asses right out the fuckin door with em. Mr. Sheen is 55, and I think he looks FANTASTIC. I adore the streaks of grey in his beard and in his thick, curly locks. I love the crow's feet because they're evidence of many, many genuinely warm smiles. And do you think for one second that he'd be called our "soft angel" if he were built like David Tennant? (No shade to DT; he's perfect the way he is, too.) No, we wouldn't. To praise an actor's physical appearance for one character, but to demolish that same physical appearance for another, is not only hypocrisy of the highest order, it's cruel, and it's unnecessary.

Bottom line: another person's body is no one else's business. And don't pretend to be a fan of someone's work just because they have an entire vault in your spank bank, but then criticize their looks when they inevitably fall off your idealized pedestal of them by getting older and putting on a few pounds. It'll happen to you one day, and let's see how YOU like it when people comment on how you've "let yourself go."

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Also, no one owes anyone that perceived fuckability. It's fine to find someone attractive and even find yourself fantasizing but it's not owed to you. They did an excellent job making him look like the doomed prince.

This is such a good point, and I could not agree more. (Although ftr, "the doomed prince" always makes me think of Hamlet, and god knows Michael was far more attractive in that role. Haha.)

But I think what you said is part of why the comments bother me so much. It's that it becomes blatantly clear that these fans only cared about Michael as long as he remained what they perceived as "fuckable"--that regardless of whether they wanted to have sex with him, he is seen as more "acceptable" overall when he looks a certain way and less so when he doesn't. I think Anna's snarky comments about Michael's appearance over the years have bothered me for a similar reason, because they also speak to her only finding him attractive when he looks a certain way.

Again, this is not to say that Michael has to look fuckable at all times, but it's clearly something that AL places value on the way the fans do, though in her case, it's because she can use it as something to brag about. So that's why we won't see her make a post to the effect of "So proud of him for taking on this difficult role," because she knows no one is going to want to fuck Michael while he looks like Prince Andrew. Her disapproving of his looks while taking on a specific role is nothing new, as she did the same thing when he played Chris Tarrant in Quiz, but it also gives an indication that she and the fans are on the same level of maturity, which again goes back to those Twitter comments striking such a nerve in me.

Michael is an actor. His job is to act, to become and embody whatever role he is playing to the best of his ability. Some people seem to think that acting is only about being glamorous, but if we are going to express outrage when the media and others make remarks about Charlize Theron "uglying it up" to play Aileen Wuornos when all she was doing was her job, then we should be just as outraged at people attacking Michael for looking "ugly" for doing his. (Also, the fact that Monster came out in 2003 and we still need to have this same conversation twenty fucking years later is utterly depressing...)

All this to say that yes, attractiveness and sex appeal/charisma can be and often are important parts of what makes an actor bankable, but looks alone do not make someone a talented actor, nor a good person. And maybe if people looked beyond the surface of their own desires, they might start to realize that...