Michael Sheen "isn't very interested" in playing someone familiar. The 55-year-old actor has been noted for his versatility and impressions of celebrities over the years but as he takes on the role of Prince Andrew in 'A Very Royal Scandal' has admitted that what he prefers to do is take on the role of someone in real life that allows him to deliver something new about them to the audience. He told Collider: "Weirdly, the very same things that make it daunting are also the things that make it attractive.
It is that familiarity. It is that sense of, “Oh, I think I know this story. I think I know this person.
"And then, it is all about whether the script delivers on going, 'Well, here’s something you didn’t know'. "As an actor, I’m not really interested in playing someone who is very familiar, and then you just see what’s familiar about them. There’s no interest in that.
"What you’re interested in is somehow giving the audience the feeling that the veil is being lifted and you’re being invited into the secret world of this person and that world. It’s the very familiarity that an audience has with the character you’re playing that is daunting. It makes you nervous because you think, 'Are people gonna accept me as this person? Am I gonna be able to make people believe I am this person?' "At the same time, it’s that same familiarity that makes you go, 'I know we’ve got the ammunition here to subvert those expectations and that familiarity.
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