Welsh actor Michael Sheen is on top of his game right now. He is a well-acclaimed actor and has the luxury to act in both big-budgeted productions and independent movies. But for Michael, playing Aro in New Moon comes in a time where he is looking for work that would make him cool to his daughter Lily.

“Look, I really am the last British actor who’s not in any of the Harry Potter films. I was looking for something I could do that would make me cool in the eyes of my daughter.”

“I had to say to my daughter, ‘I heard someone talking about this character Aro in these books. Do you know anything about that?’ And she said, ‘Yes, he’s the leader of the Volturi and he reads people’s minds. Are you playing him?’ Of course I said, ‘no, no, no’. When it was all worked out, she cried. Then she hit me.”

He also talked about how he relate to the books penned by author Stephenie Meyer, whose second book talks about heartaches and loss of love.

“The utter desolation she is able to capture in New Moon, I experienced it. She really gets to the heart of the devastation of losing a first love. As we get older we all tend to maybe trivialise our own feelings and experiences at that age because society and culture does that to us. But I remember it. I remember people saying, ‘Oh, he’s just a 13-or 14-year-old boy. What does he know? He’ll grow up and grow out of it’.”

But for now he is happy where he is after years of struggling as an actor.

“I am officially the king of Hollywood now. I’ve managed to do everything. I just feel really happy that I’m able to do something like this, a big huge franchise phenomenon and I’m still able to do small independent films and some theatre. I feel really excited about the way my career is at the moment, partly because I’ve never had much of a career plan. I’m sure the New Moon cast have armies of people who sit down every morning and work out every step they take but I’ve never really thought about it. I’ve just done what I’ve connected with.”

To read the rest of his interview, click on the link above.

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