David Tennant and Michael Sheen - photographed for High Life Magazine
(promotion for Good Omens)

Excerpt from David Tennant Does a Podcast With Michael Sheen:

David: We have just come from a publicity photoshoot for Good Omens, which is a show we’re doing, during which we had to sort of dress up in clothes and have our photograph taken, kind of as ourselves.

Michael:  Yeah

David: I don’t think I’m talking out of school when I say that both of us find that… not our favorite part of the job of acting.

Michael:  No. We haven’t talked about this until now, so this is quite fun. [David laughs]  Can I ask you, am I the grumpiest person you’ve ever seen at a photoshoot, or have you seen grumpier people?

David: Oh no, I’ve seen grumpier

Michael: You have?

David: Yeah.  I don’t think you’re that grumpy. I think you’re an honest version of how I’m feeling

Michael: I wanted to kill everyone. Including myself

David: [Laughing]  That’s exactly what’s going on in my head, but because I could see how annoyed you were at times, it made me become sort of a performing monkey, going “No, everything’s great! Everything’s fine!”

Michael: I’m so sorry

David:  No!  Because you’re right!  It was excruciating

Michael:  I was aware at certain moments that I was totally leaving you to pick up the pieces. [David laughs]  I was just refusing to answer certain things. I was like a child, just not answering.  And you were very nicely, because you’re a lovely person, saying something just so that there wasn’t utter silence.

David: Usually I’m you in that situation

Michael: [Laughing] Are you really?

David: Exactly. That’s what I mean. I think we’re very similar about it. I’m asking you, as a means of therapy for myself, why is that bit of the job so excruciating?

Michael: Because it sort of strips away a lot of the stuff that allows us to feel better about ourselves. 

David:  Right

Michael: So it strips away all the pretense of artistry.  It’s just, “MONKEY F**KING PERFORM, MONKEY!!!”

Michael Sheen about him playing a serial killer in Prodigal Son (x):

Seth Meyers: I mean, again, playing a serial killer, it’s menacing. You also seem to be having some fun with it. Is that accurate?

Michael Sheen: Well, I sort of realized that if you’re a monster, you don’t want to signal that you’re a monster because people will run away. And you want to kill them. So you don’t want them running away. So you have to be kind of be nice and cuddly and wear cardigans and be funny and charming. I think that works.

Seth Meyers: Wow. You’ve put so much thought into this. I think you’d make and excellent serial killer.

Michael Sheen: Thank you.

Michael Sheen recalls meeting the Queen

@lifwae requested  ⁠— David Tennant and Michael Sheen being literal Aziraphale and Crowley in the interview