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    MICHAEL SHEEN

    Dec 06, 2021 5 minutes

    The thing I enjoyed most in my late teens was youth theatre. By 16, I was starting to really take it seriously. I’d been obsessed with football when I was younger. Every waking hour I was playing or watching or reading about it. And when I was about 12, I had an opportunity to go to the next stage and play for the youth team [at Arsenal]. My life could have gone a very different way. But I didn’t go down that path because my mum and dad didn’t want to move the family to London. So over the next few years, I started to transfer that passion into acting. By 16, I was starting to really come into my own and thinking, maybe this is something I’m actually going to do seriously, rather than just something I enjoy.

    I think I was a pretty ebullient 16-year-old. I’d had a real horrible heartbreak by

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