# Michael Sheen quits acting(?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 18, 2016, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-sheen-quits-acting/775014 "2016-12-18T01:12:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2016, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-sheen-quits-acting/775014/21 "2016-12-18T20:48:52Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > I’m proud to say, I have never seen Top Gun. And I’ve never set foot in Harvard. We should both be proud. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-sheen-quits-acting/775014/22 "2016-12-18T20:52:26Z")
> [@tenacious\_j](#): > > Whew. Got him confused with Michael Shannon and was upset that I might not see him in anything again. > Also quite impressed that the guy I was thinking of was such a good actor, I never once thought he wasn’t American. “Hold up; your name is _Wesley Snipes?_ That’s insane!” “You know what’s insane? That the actor is named _Wesley Snipes._ If you were shown a picture of him and a picture of me and were asked _who should be named Wesley Snipes,_ you’d pick the pale Englishman every time! EVERY TIME, Liz! And, frankly, you should be having this conversation with HIM!” ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-sheen-quits-acting/775014/23 "2016-12-19T09:38:00Z")
And the irony of Michael Sheen railing against New Labour is that his breakthrough role in the UK started with him playing … Tony Blair (first in **The Deal** , and later in **The Queen)** ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a8b319/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_wuzzy)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-sheen-quits-acting/775014/24 "2016-12-19T11:57:56Z")
From Michael Sheen’s blog: _I did one interview with The Times of London a few weeks ago, parts of which (including a headline that is not a quote) have been picked up by a lot of other outlets. I DID NOT declare that I’m ‘quitting acting and leaving Hollywood’ to go into politics. In the actual original interview I said I have become more involved with community issues back at home over the last few years and because of the political situation it’s something I would like to focus on more. The interviewer asked me what that meant for my career and I said it might mean I work less as an actor and maybe even stop for a while AT SOME POINT. But I don’t really know yet. I certainly did NOT equate people who voted for Brexit or Trump with a fascistic 'hard right’ that must be stopped. The majority of people in the U.K., including my hometown of Port Talbot, voted for Brexit. That is the will of the people and is to be respected. That is democracy. Given the concerns around the economy in the area I come from and its industrial history I totally empathise with the dissatisfaction with the status quo that the vote was partially an expression of. What I think must be resisted is the re-emerging spectre of fascism in the West. Our democracy must be defended and each of us needs to decide how we can contribute to that effort._ [http://mchshe2.tumblr.com/post/154616648590/what-i-did-not-say](http://mchshe2.tumblr.com/post/154616648590/what-i-did-not-say) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-sheen-quits-acting/775014.md?page=1)