Michael Sheen gained some perception as to what it is prefer to be a member of the royal household whereas filming his newest undertaking, however can by no means see himself residing as an precise royal.
In a latest interview with Individuals, Sheen mentioned his newest undertaking, “A Very Royal Scandal.” He portrays the disgraced Prince Andrew within the days main as much as his interview on “Newsnight” with Emily Maitlis, during which he talked about his friendship with Jeffery Epstein.
Whereas getting ready for the position, Sheen did in depth analysis as a way to get into the mindset of a royal, which in the end led him to the conclusion that he “absolutely” would by no means need to be a member of the royal household.
“No. The fairytale image of it seems so extraordinary – living in palaces and having everything you want and servants and all that kind of stuff,” he mentioned. “But the reality seems to be that there are far more restrictions than there are freedoms. No amount of wealth or assets or privilege can make up for not being able to have basic sort of freedoms that a lot of us take for granted. So no, I would not want to have that life.”
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Sheen realized being royal is not all it is cracked as much as be when getting ready to play Prince Andrew in “A Very Royal Scandal.” (Hoda Davaine/Dave Benett/Getty Photographs)
This was Sheen’s first time taking part in a royal on display screen, and regardless of having performed British Prime Minister Tony Blair in two separate tasks, together with 2010’s “The Special Relationship” and 2006’s “The Queen,” there are nonetheless issues he needed to find out about the way in which issues work inside the monarchy.
“The reality seems to be that there are far more restrictions than there are freedoms. No amount of wealth or assets or privilege can make up for not being able to have basic sort of freedoms that a lot of us take for granted. So no, I would not want to have that life.”
One of many greatest issues he realized was that the royals and the media have a particular relationship with each other, saying, “I’d always quite naively imagined that the media and the royal family were quite separate institutions.”
“But then it became clear that there’s all these sort of negotiations that go on between them, and there’s a kind of, you know, ‘Well, if you do this, then we’ll do that. And if you give us this interview, we’ll hide this thing.’ You know, it’s a real – there are deals being done all the time between the two institutions, which I found fascinating, and I didn’t realize that. That was a big surprise,” he mentioned.
This relationship with the media is on full show in “A Very Royal Scandal.” The 2019 interview the movie relies on featured Prince Andrew as he tried to defend himself towards allegations he slept with an underage woman trafficked by Epstein.
The interview Prince Andrew gave on “Newsnight” did extra hurt than good for his repute. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Photographs)
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Prince Andrew is sometimes called having been defensive all through the interview, and even as soon as mentioned he does not remorse forming a friendship with Epstein, as a result of the alternatives that got here from it “were actually very useful.”
All through his analysis into the lifetime of Andrew, Sheen watched many different interviews the prince participated in, one in all which stood out to him attributable to a very “startling” giggle he felt was unusually “exposed” for a member of the royal household.
“For the royal family, who are usually so controlled, trying to keep things very much under the surface, it was a moment of startling, shocking emotion – even if it was just a laugh,” he advised Individuals. “But there was something about it that I thought was quite telling, so that stayed with me.”
Though there’s loads of materials out there to review as a way to nail down the character when taking part in Prince Andrew, Sheen defined it was harder than he anticipated, because it’s exhausting to know what to imagine.
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Sheen discovered it exhausting to know what to imagine when it got here to the analysis concerned in taking part in Prince Andrew. (Hoda Davaine/Dave Benett/Getty Photographs; Karwai Tang/WireImage)
“One of the big challenges with playing Prince Andrew compared to a lot of the people I’ve played is it’s a hall of mirrors with Prince Andrew,” he advised The Hollywood Reporter in September.
He continued, “The royal family is so controlled with what gets out. So you’ve got, on the one hand, very stage-managed photographs and interviews and personal appearances, and then you’ve got, gossip and rumor and, ‘The person who used to be security guard said…’ And you don’t know what people’s agendas are.”
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