Before being cast as Aro in New Moon, Michael Sheen wasnt interested in Twitter. In fact, he only signed on Twitter to dispel the “someone” who was pretending to be him and making him look bad. He doesnt even plan to keep his account. But with fans cheering him on, not to mention when he was cast as Aro his followers grew, the Welsh actor has been finally hook with Twitter and enjoys responding to his fans.

Your Twitter following is so huge! It’s probably safe to say that much of your followers are Twilight fans.

When it was announced that I was going to be inTwilight, I think my Twitter following went up by about 7,000 fans – so I think itmight have something to do with that.

A week after being announced as New Moon’s Aro, you joined Twitter, and your first post read, “Someone is pretending to be me. The f***er will rue the day…” Can you explain what that was all about?

The only reason I went on Twitter was because there was someone pretending to be me who sounded likesuch an idiot, so it was reflecting badly on me. My auntie, who was already on Twitter, let me know there was this person doing this, so I had to go on and say, “This is me.”

When it comes to celebrities, there are so many fake accounts that it’s hard to tell who’s real and who’s not…

I spent a couple of weeks trying to convince people that I was the real me, and it became sort of a “Twit-off” with this pretender. It was Neil Gaiman who eventually made the big difference when he announced that I was the “official” me. I always intended to end it then and not do it anymore, but I just got hooked on it.

It’s incredibly addictive, isn’t it?

It kind of is, and I also find it really useful and entertaining. To share things, to let people send me things that I’m interested in… if I’ve watched or read something that I really enjoy I’ll share it with people there. And also, if I have anything I need to find out about, I’ve got this resource of about 50,000 incredibly well-informed and interesting people to ask the question to.

Now that you’re involved in the world of Twilight as an actor and as a father of a Twilight fan, how do you ensure that the Twilight world is taken seriously by those who might dismiss it superficially?

Well I can’t, really. I take it seriously, but it’s up to other people how they respond to it. I have no control over that. I just want to do as good a job as I possibly can for Stephenie Meyer, who wrote the stories, Chris Weitz, who directed the film, and for my daughter, who’s the person who got me into it in the first place. So if people don’t respond to it, that’s up to them, but I don’t think anyone’s going to be too worried about that. I think there’s quite enough people who are into it.

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