The actor: Versatile Welsh performer Michael Sheen, who’s apparently following in the footsteps of fellow Brits like Michael Caine and Judi Dench by seemingly never turning down a role. He’s taken leading roles in highbrow, awards-bait fare like The Queen and Frost/Nixon, but can also be seen hamming it up as a werewolf leader in the Underworld trilogy, a vampire lord in the Twilight movies, a rakish sybarite in Tron: Legacy, and so forth. At least he always seems to commit to the serious roles, and have a lot of broad fun in the more ridiculous ones. But he’s more about commitment than fun in his latest, Beautiful Boy, a painful, poignant drama in which he and Maria Bello co-star as the struggling parents of a college boy who kills 21 classmates before turning the gun on himself. As always, Sheen gives a terrific, intense performance as a father and husband who’s falling apart.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) and Breaking Dawn parts 1 and 2 (2011-2012)—“Aro”
MS: That’s a character I just find really, really fascinating. I’m a big fan of vampire movies generally, and that sort of tradition of characters. So being able to have my own take on a character, and being someone who taps into all the things that really frightened me when I was a kid, like Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Blue Meanies in Yellow Submarine, and [Laurence] Olivier’s Richard III on film. All these characters really stayed with me and disturbed me in some way, and yet sort of thrilled me. That’s what I always tend to draw on when I play that character. And also, the level of excitement and passion that the audience has. My own daughter is a big fan of the Twilight stories, the books. So that’s the other thing—it’s the first time I’ve done something my daughter actually actively had an interest in.
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