Last weekend, Welsh actor Michael Sheen attended the San Diego Comic Con where he promoted his new film, Tron. He was interviewed by Fear.net at the event and he talked a bit about his upcoming filming of Breaking Dawn.

“Well, there’s no secret, because there’s a book out, so you just have to read the book to find out what happens. But it’s still early days really. There’s no script and nothing’s been set up definitely yet. I’m hoping it’ll all work out.”

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Michael Sheen earned a nomination in a major category at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards. Michael is nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries of Movie for his portrayal of for UK PM Michael Sheen at the HBO series The Special Relationship. Jamie’s The Prisoner is also nominated as well as Peter Facinelli’s Nurse Jackie. Twilight scribe Melissa Rosenberg also earned nominations for her work at Dexter.

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Here is a snippet of his feature at Entertainment Weekly.

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79. MICHAEL SHEEN

He should be a lot higher on this list, frankly, because Sheen is probably our most successfully versatile thespian at the moment. But he’s not that ‘sexy’, so he doesn’t command the kind of tabloid attention that propels actors from stars to superstars – something that I suspect he’s quite happy about. He’s got one of those Rory Bremner-like faces that can adapt to almost any character, from Tony Blair to David Frost. And he’s a fine, fine actor. So he matters, but not nearly as much as he would if he got caught on a sex tape with Paris Hilton. A tragic, but accurate, state of affairs.

Age 40 Born Newport, Wales

Education Glan Afan; Rada Homes London; LA

6. ROBERT PATTINSON

This is quite a simple one. Pattinson’s the handsome young star of the Twilight films, beloved of teenage girls and other moody types. That fact makes him a nailed-down cert to be the most sought-after British movie star of 2010.

And that, in turn, makes him ‘matter’. The only problem for Pattinson is that, as my grandmother always likes to say, ‘One day you’re the cock of the walk, the next you’re a feather duster.’ And nowhere is that more true than in good old Tinseltown. So I wish him well, but urge him to watch his back.

And not just because of the millions of girls all over the world who’d like to attach themselves to his shapely shoulders as a matter of urgency.

Age 23 Born London

Education Tower House (private); Harrodian School (private) Homes London; Vancouver

The Daily Mail has also posted a feature article on Rob, where they chronicle the mass hysteria that the young actor brings with him. They also talked to Rob about his rocketing fame, his career choices, his fears and many more. Here is an excerpt of the article.

The noise is deafening; a mounting, high-pitched wall of sound that resonates like a fire alarm. Hundreds of teenage girls are packed outside Covent Garden’s Royal Opera House for the Baftas, voicing their appreciation for the star of the Twilight films, and it sounds like Beatlemania, Nineties-era Girl Power and the X Factor crowd combined.

Screaming fans are commonplace here on the red carpet, but this crowd has a more deranged, more despairing edge to it.

The man at the centre of the maelstrom is Robert Pattinson, who plays Edward Cullen, the Byronesque, deathly-cool vampire hero of the gigantically successful franchise based on the best-selling novels by Stephenie Meyer. When I meet him later, he says he was overwhelmed by the swell of adulation.

‘I really didn’t know anything about all this Twilight madness, even when I was shooting the original movie,’ says the 23-year-old.

‘But when we came back to LA to do reshoots there were 500 fans at the set, with girls screaming and people asking for my autograph. I get a lot of crying from teenage girls, but lately a lot of them actually want me to bite them, which is a bit worrying.

‘Another girl started undressing in front of me in the street. To get my attention she’d asked me what she could do, so as a joke I said, “Take all your clothes off.” But then she actually started taking her clothes off right there! Some people are really desperate.’

It sounds as worrying, I suggest, as when two participants at a charity auction in Cannes last year bid nearly £40,000 between them to buy their two daughters a single kiss each on the cheek from Pattinson.

‘One day I was a normal bloke and then the next I wasn’t,’ he mutters, shuffling uncomfortably in his seat. ‘The day before the Harry Potter London premiere I was just sitting in Leicester Square, happily being ignored by everyone. Then suddenly strangers are screaming my name. It’s just madness now. Pure bloody madness.’

To read the rest of the article, click on the link above.

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In an interview with the Toronto Sun, Welsh actor Michael Sheen is glad that her daughter can now appreciate the movies he is in.

“Having spent years and years doing films in which she had no interest in whatsoever, either because she couldn’t watch them because they’re too scary, or she didn’t want to watch them because they’re too boring,” Sheen says, “now to be able to do films that are slam-bang in the middle of what she’s interested in, it’s fantastic for me as a dad.”

He also said that he will most likely be back for Breaking Dawn. But is content for the meanwhile to see others go through with the Twilight experience again.

“I can sit back and watch all the others have to go through that again,” he says, smiling — he will likely return in the fourth, Breaking Dawn.

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In a short interview with Entertainment Weekly, where he was promoting the release of his latest film Alice in Wonderland and the DVD release of The Damned United, Michael Sheen was asked if he was looking forward to come back for Breaking Dawn, the fourth film in the Twilight Saga.

Are you excited to return to planet Twilight for Breaking Dawn?

I am! The whole Twilight juggernaut has been focusing on Eclipse for awhile, which I’m not in. They haven’t turned their attention to Breaking Dawn yet. But I’m looking forward to donning the red contacts again.

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In an interview with OK UK, Welsh actor Michael Sheen says the he is grateful that he is not bothered by the Twilight fans – although he wants to.

“No one recognises me. It’s great – I get to be part of the whole [Twilight] phenomenon and yet I don’t get bothered – although I would like to be bothered!

“I quite like it when someone points out to somebody else that I’m in Twilight – like if there’s a 12-year-old girl and her mum says ‘You know who this is don’t you – it’s Aro from Twilight’ and seeing them go wide-eyed and crazy.”

Michael can next be seen as White Rabbit McTwisp in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland.

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IMDB has releases it list of Top Stars of 2009 and Johnny Depp’s five-year reign has been ended by Robert Pattinson. The British actor topped the list this year, with Twilight dominating the list.

Other Twilight actors in the list are:

1. Kristen Stewart (No.2)
2. Taylor Lautner (No.5)
3. Dakota Fanning (No.8)
4. Ashley Greene (No.11)
5. Nikki Reed (No.15)
6. Peter Facinelli (No.37)
7. Kellan Lutz (No.39)
8. Michael Sheen (No.45)
9. Cam Gigandet (no.60)

The list is determined the sites’ unique visitors.

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