When it came to role models, Welsh actor Michael Sheen got very lucky. For not one but two world-class actors – Richard Burton and Sir Anthony Hopkins – hailed from his hometown and had already successfully blazed the very trail the young Michael wanted to follow.
From the outset he knew his dreams to swap the working-class steel town of Port Talbot for glitzy Hollywood were far from pie in the sky. “Growing up in Wales, let alone in Port Talbot, the voice of Richard Burton is one of the most recognised there is, next to your own mother,” says the Frost/Nixon star. “You grow up with it, the extraordinary myth of a man, the legend of Richard Burton.
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