Michael Sheen was interviewed by John Harlow for The Times at an event in LA in 2014.
Topics discussed in this wide-ranging interview include:
- Richard Burton
- The support Michael has had for becoming an actor in his home town of Port Talbot
- Godfrey Evans, who created the local youth theatre that Michael was a part of
- Nearly becoming a footballer with Arsenal Youth Team
- Studying at RADA and his first play with Vanessa Redgrave
- Working with writer Peter Morgan and director Stephen Frears
- Playing real people like Tony Blair, Brian Clough and David Frost
- How working on Twilight and Underworld is the same as something like Hamlet in terms of stories that connect with people
- How his Hamlet was inspired by Philip K. Dick
- What made him want to be an actor
- Wanting to do Rocky Horror
- The amazing and emotional story of The Passion of Port Talbot
- Filming the second series of Masters of Sex
- Writing a film