#michael sheen article

[rainbowpopeworld]

Some more photos from the Vera magazine shoot. The top one was the cover and therefore had writing over it. And the other two didn't appear in the spread.

@phoen1xr0se I think you asked for this before? 💖💕

[sentientsky]

wait but can we talk about how jarring it is to read official news releases ab this show after marinating for months in the good omens fandom on tumblr?? like, i'll read a piece from an actual news site that goes something like,,, "Good Omens explores the dynamic between two unlikely friends--one angelic, one demonic--as they navigate their lives on Earth in the aftermath of a failed attempt to enact Armageddon. Throughout the course of the second season's six-episode run, Crowley (as played by Dr. Who's David Tennant) and Aziraphale (played by the delightful Michael Sheen of Prodigal Son) must face down power-hungry demons, unexpected visitors, and new job prospects, all while playing matchmaker for a couple of shopkeepers in the area. In the wake of an overwhelmingly positive reception from fans, there's discussion of an upcoming season 3."

and it's like,,, I-- WHAT??? is this how non-brainrotted individuals approach the story? did we even watch the same show???

cause meanwhile, for the past three months, we've all collectively been like,,,

we really truly are living in the eye of the hyperfixation hurricane, huh?

[procrastiel]

A few articles about the love and chemistry between Michael Sheen and David Tennant

Financial Times article (pay to view)

Entertainment Weekly article (July 20th, 2023), where they specifically refer to the actors as a ‘celestial duo’ that will be reprising their roles as the characters Aziraphale and Crowley.

Movieweb article (July 27th, 2023)

Popverse article (September 15th, 2023), where their relationship is referred to as ‘bromance’ and ‘becoming the stuff of legends’. Keep dancing, you two!

Independent article (February 16th, 2024)

RadioTimes article (February 16th, 2024)

[michaelsheenpt]

Actor Michael Sheen reveals his boyhood drag ambition of being like Lily Savage (2015)

Make that dream come true, Michael!

He would be a wonderful drag queen

[beanbeansson]

all this needs is a gif from that one bit in staged

[ingravinoveritas]

Okay but is it a good thing for people to look at your family Christmas photo and say that it looks photoshopped and edited? Just wondering since so many people have that same thought over on twitter who believe that Georgia and Anna were edited in

It's been so overwhelming to see the response to these new pics. I am sure probably everyone has seen them by now, but I will put up the visual just in case:

I think I would agree with you that, in the most general sense, saying that someone's family Christmas photo looks Photoshopped/edited is probably not a positive thing. In the interest of fairness, looking at the pictures of the other people who were photographed at the event, it does seem like it was a problem with the lighting or editing overall that is affecting every photo, not just these pictures.

One thing I want to be clear on is that I think it's absolutely precious that Michael and David did this outing together, and are spending so much time together overall while Michael is in London. We had an inkling of that up until this point, but we literally went from a blurry photo to Michael and David gazing at each other across a crowded room on press night for Macbeth, to...this...in the span of less than a month. And I am glad that their kids are getting to spend time together and enjoy all of these holiday festivities as well. It's all very sweet and lovely, and in no way is it my intention to diminish that.

Thinking about the matching sweaters (jumpers), this is where I start to feel slightly less enthusiastic. It seems that the jumpers were Georgia's idea, which makes sense, as she previously had everyone wearing matching sweaters for a viewing party for "The Star Beast" (the first DW 60th anniversary episode). But having sweaters for Michael, AL, Lyra, and Mabli isn't an accident, or something that happens on the fly--it has to be planned. So for me, that makes it seem less like "spontaneous family outing" and more like "planned photo op meant to garner publicity."

What particularly gets me is that the both the matching sweaters for DW and the matching sweaters here feels like a gimmick...but Michael and David have never needed a "gimmick." Because Michael and David just being themselves has always been enough to be memorable. I'm not sure if Georgia thought she needed a gimmick to make herself and Anna stand out or what, but to me it almost feels like the sweaters are a diversion. As if Georgia perhaps knew the four them in a photo together would look awkward, so what better way to deflect than to give everyone something else to talk about. (Perhaps the same could also be said for Michael's hat, which...why, Michael? Haha.)

But it seems that Georgia's idea worked, because right after these pictures came out, an article was published about them in the Daily Mail. So all of this put together does give that feeling of being planned, especially because the four of them were so much the focal point of the DM article, more than any of the other celebrities at the event.

This brings me back to the aforementioned photos. Again, what seemed notable to me wasn't just what we did see, but what we didn't: No photo of Michael and Anna together, nor of David and Georgia, and not one of Georgia and AL, either. Instead, we have this group photo (where no one is actually touching and Georgia and AL's arms are awkwardly hanging side by side), and a photo of Michael and David where they are, with their arms around each other and Michael leaning into David, in contrast to his much stiffer posture in the group photo.

Looking at the Getty Images page, all of the other twosome photos are of couples, and none of them have the same unusual energy as Michael/David/Georgia/AL's group photo. So I do wonder if the fans pointing out the "Photoshopped" nature of the picture (and specifically that Georgia and AL appear to be edited in) have ever considered that maybe that is just how Georgia and AL look together. Because we're not talking about Staged, or social media posts. This is them, face to face, in real life, and the difference between Georgia and AL vs. Michael and David just seems pretty striking.

(I am also aware that there was another family photo that Georgia posted in an Insta story, and it is an incredibly cute picture, but I will say that what struck me is how Georgia and AL are pressed close together, but there is a very noticeable amount of space between Anna and David, and he seems to be giving off a lot of 'closed' body language (one hand in his lap, one folded behind him). Make of that what you will...)

So yes, those are my thoughts on the new pictures. I would love to hear any observations that anyone else has, of course, so feel free to share your thoughts in the comments. Thanks for writing in! x

[raggedy-spaceman]

nobody:

historians discovering obvious love letters between two men:

[theeminentlyimpractical]

I am begging the universe to let me go more than 3 days in October without a Michael Sheen jumpscare. all I wanted was to make sure I didn’t leave anything in the seat back pocket on the plane

[happy-mokka]

Michael Sheen in "The Guardian".

A beautiful interview of a beautiful soul.

This last part especially stuck with me:

On his way out, I ask what advice he would give his younger self. He says he was asked that recently and gave a glib answer. “I said buy stock in Apple.” What should he have said? He thinks about it, and finally says he’d have no advice for his younger self. He’d rather reverse the question, and think what his younger self would say to him if he tried to advise him.

“I saw an amazing clip of Stephen Colbert saying your life is an accumulation of every bad choice you’ve made and every good choice you’ve made, and the great challenge of life is to say yes to it. To say, ‘I love living, I embrace living.’ And in order to do that you have to embrace all the pain, all the grief, all the sadness, all the fucking mistakes because without that you don’t have all the other stuff.” He’s on a roll now, louder and more passionate by the word. “And I’d hate it if someone came and went, ‘Don’t do this, no do that.’ Then you just sail through your life. It would be death, wouldn’t it? So I’d tell my older self to go fuck himself.”

[thealogie]

Sometimes I wish I could live in the alternate universe where Michael Sheen plays Stevens in a version of The Remains of the Day but also based on his past playings of repressed heterosexuals (e.g. Bill Masters) that performance might actually not be survivable

We are honestly not in the clear yet. Anthony Hopkins did it when he was 55 but you could see Stevens being played by someone older. This could happen, which both thrills and horrifies me.

[henriettarhippo-hrh]

I just got a phone notification for an article titled 'Michael Sheen Just Dropped a Miraculous Good Omens Season 3 Update'

When I tell you I glimpsed 'Michael Sheen', 'Dropped', and 'Good Omens Season 3' and my heart just about stopped

[rainbowpopeworld]

New interview with Michael Sheen just published- some excerpts below

About his relationship with Kate Beckinsale:

“Have they always got on well since splitting up?

“We’ve had our ups and downs, but we’re very important in each other’s lives. It would be really sad if we weren’t – like cutting off a whole part of your life. I’m not saying it doesn’t have its challenges, and I’m sure it’s been harder for her than for me.”

Why? “Because … ” He pauses and smiles. “Because I’m more of a twat!”

In what way? Another smile. “I’m not going to tell you that, am I?””

About going into politics:

“He looks appalled at the idea.

“Oh God, no. No! I’d be awful.”

Why? “Because I don’t want to say what other people are telling me to say if I don’t agree with it.”

…“People say I should go into politics because I’m passionate about things and I speak my mind. But then you get into politics and you’re not allowed to do that any more. I’ve got far more of a platform as myself. I can say what I want to say.”

[sentientsky]

oh, my eyes are getting all bleary! u know what that means! ineedtogotobedholyfuckimsofuckingtired time to look at pictures of The Blorbo for five! more! hours!!

[invisibleicewands]

Michael Sheen’s dream role? The leader of a free Wales

Residents of Port Talbot adore the actor for his enthusiastic support for charities, the arts and its football club, discovers Jonathan Dean

Halfway down the Forge Road in central Port Talbot, south Wales, is a florist called The Flower Box — a vibrant, gorgeous little shop displaying hyacinths, tulips and a huge painting of Michael Sheen. The actor was raised in the town and moved back to the region after his epic Easter 2011 production of The Passion, which involved most of the residents. He is a local hero, then, but the painting by artist Karl Davies takes up half the front window. It looks like a shop selling Michael Sheen.

“We’ve been trying to get it signed,” laughs Lisa Griffiths, who runs the store with Ken Marten. Griffiths went to the same school as the actor and they caught the same bus. This happens a lot — everyone in Port Talbot has a Sheen story. The Passion changed him. He has, in his words, “turned myself into a social enterprise, a not-for-profit actor”.

Further up Forge Road is an even bigger painting of Sheen — for the town’s ARTwalk trail. The mural takes up an entire wall, with his wild locks of greying hair and beard. The beautiful art deco Plaza Cinema, where Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins and Sheen visited as boys — they do actors well around here — boasts a wall of photos dedicated to Sheen’s finest roles Rumour has it Sheen lives half an hour’s drive away in the Upper Swansea Valley, with his partner Anna Lundberg and their two young children.

Sheen was born in Wales in 1969 but has never seemed more Welsh than he does now. He left the country for career reasons,moving to LA in 2002 to be near his first daughter Lily, who he had with US-based actress Kate Beckinsale.

He lived over the Hollywood Hills and was in a relationship with the comedian, Sarah Silverman for four years. When Lily headed off to university and he and Silverman broke up in 2018, it was time to come home. “The weather’s nice, but it’s not my country,” he said. “It’s not my tribe, you know?”

This week, he starred in a video pushing the rebranding of Brecon Beacons as Bannau Brycheiniog. A Plaid Cymru spokesperson said: “This is a positive step in normalising the use of Welsh. ” In the film, in a jaunty hat, the actor flits between English and Welsh as he walks. This is not a renaming, supporters insist, but a reclamation.

“A new name,” he bellows. “Or, rather, an old one — Bannau Brycheiniog!”

It is rather like his extraordinary oratory on a TV panel show just before last year’s World Cup, when Sheen delivered a wild plea for bravery so moving that one YouTube comment reads: “It made me proud to be Welsh — and I’m Spanish!”

Owen Williams, managing director of a social media consultancy and member of YesCymru — campaigners for an independent Wales — believes key turning points for Sheen were The Passion in Port Talbot, plus the 2017 Raymond Williams Memorial lecture he gave to the Open University in Wales, for which Sheen read Williams’s book Who Speaks for Wales? which tackles national culture and politics. It taught Sheen a lot about the shared history of Wales and the British state and led to him handing back his OBE.

“He has a revolutionary vibe,” say Williams. “Nye Bevan meets Che Guevara. People think, ‘I’d walk through fire for him’, and while the picture is bland politically on this island with Rishi Sunak, Kier Starmer and Ed Davey, certain individuals can rise above it. I can imagine him as head of state in an independent Wales.”

Before that dream though, comes the reality, and the work Sheen is doing on the ground right now. Samantha Drohan is the workforce development manager for Adferiad Recovery, a charity for people with mental health and substance issues in south Wales. Sheen has been their patron since 2011, making himself available on email, Skype and in person when needed. He raised £20,000 via an auction for the group, while also recording a video — “In full make-up!” — to thank volunteers. He has visited people who use Adferiad Recovery. It “thrilled” them. He does a lot. 

“The first time he came in, I asked if he wanted a needle exchange because I had absolutely no idea who he was,” says Drohan. “But he’s been really supportive of our organisation — it gives Port Talbot a massive boost.”

Port Talbot Town FC is a club with a small stadium with two stands, decked out in the club’s bold blue and yellow. The clubhouse has a Gareth Bale lager on tap and a blow-up sheep on the wall. Rhiannon Reynolds, general manager, grew up in house overlooking the ground. It is part of her life and, yes, she is fully aware her name sounds like the actor who is in charge of that other Welsh football club, Wrexham. She even has a cousin called Ryan.

Sheen became club president in 2021. He does a lot of fundraising, but just having his name attached helps the community-based club. Their kit manufacturer, VX3, got in touch because Sheen was involved. He also funds the club’s disability team.

“A few months ago,” says Reynolds, “we hosted a pan-disability tournament and teams came from across Wales. They were saying, ‘Wow, we’re in a stadium!’ We couldn’t have dreamt of putting that on if it wasn’t for Michael Sheen.”

He is also filming a documentary in the town, about the cost of living. “Most of this area is deprived,” sighs Reynolds. “There’s a lot of regeneration, but people are struggling Sheen shot part of the film in the clubhouse and even mucked in with some redecorating.

Good local news stories keep on coming. This June, he will direct a film, The Way, written by James Graham, about a civil uprising. It takes place in Port Talbot. He is using locals for extras and backroom jobs. Sophia Betsworth, marketing officer at Port Talbot’s Princess Royal — a grand 798-seater theatre — says that Sheen boosts artistic groups too.

“Most regional theatres do not have a world-renowned actor supporting their productions,” she says.Amy Kingdom, who works as both an auxiliary nurse and painter decorator, stars in his documentary about cost of living. “He’s such a keen representative,” she explains. “I love it here — I’ve always lived here. But it’s not the most appealing of places, is it? Yet, he’s never lost that local passion.She smiles, remembering when he went on The Graham Norton Show and talked about the town. That meant a lot to everybody too. “Graham Norton!” gasps Kingdom. “Nobody knows where Wales is most of the time. Let alone Port Talbot!”

[sharlinefreire]

my article about good omens 2!!

how to write about the ineffable? i don't know, but i tried to do that with an article about the season 2 of good omens — more specifically about aziraphale and crowley's relationship, one of my favorite love stories of all time. i love so much writing about art, about what excites me and makes me happy... and aziraphale and crowley have been doing exactly that since the moment i met them, in 2019. i cry like hell just thinking about the end of the second season lol but that's ok. “i forgive you", ineffable husbands.

you can read this here!

ps: it's written in portuguese because the website is brazilian, but feel free to translate and read it. hope you like it :)

ps1: my art is so beautiful i'm so proud of myself 🥹

[thereallovebug]

A good article about Michael. 👍👍