Chris Weitz Talks Michael Sheen in The Paris Review

I did have lunch with Michael Sheen, who is a very cultured fellow, so I shall ride on his coattails. Michael was good enough to play a genuinely weird vampire elder in New Moon. At the time, he said that he was channeling the Blue Meanies from Yellow Submarine; but I think it is a delightfully perverse performance in its own right.

I did have lunch with Michael Sheen, who is a very cultured fellow, so I shall ride on his coattails. Michael was good enough to play a genuinely weird vampire elder in New Moon. At the time, he said that he was channeling the Blue Meanies from Yellow Submarine; but I think it is a delightfully perverse performance in its own right.
Lately Michael has been interested in Edward Kelly, the con man who scammed John Dee, the Elizabethan magician; Edgar Allan Poe, whom he may end up playing on screen; and Kenneth Williams, the British comedian whom he recently played in Fantabulosa.

Read more at the Paris Review here.