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Michael Sheen: ‘There have been times when I would have loved to be more of a star’
Famous for playing Tony Blair in three different films, as well as David Frost and Brian Clough, he is about to play Hamlet at the Young Vic. Yet the Welsh actor still remains practically anonymous.
It is a source of unending amazement to me that so many celebrities regard an interview as an opportunity to boast about their brilliance, in the belief that this will convince readers they are brilliant. This is not a mistake Michael Sheen is in any danger of making.
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Instead, the 42-year-old launches into an excitable tribute to Shakespeare, with the air of a wonderstruck child. “Hamlet’s a good play. I know that sounds mad, but it really is! I mean it’s really extraordinary. What’s extraordinary is you can have so many different productions and actors and directors and their different visions, but it seems to kind of respond to each; it seems to adapt, and that’s what I’ve found. What’s quite freaky about it – it is actually a little bit scary – is that it feels like a living organism, it’s like a thing that actually adapts. It’s this weird thing where if you came along and said, well, I think Hamlet is actually about crocodiles – well, then it does seem to be about crocodiles. As long as it’s within the realm of possibility, it somehow seems to throw up these things and you go, well yes, I think this is what Shakespeare actually meant! But not everyone can be right, so it’s weird. It seems to kind of meet you in a way that other plays don’t. It’s an incredibly unusual experience.”
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