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Actor Michael Sheen: ‘You have to make something happen’

The ‘not-for-profit’ star on putting his own money into projects, creating a new national theatre for Wales — and what he learnt from Nye Bevan

“If you see a gap and you think it’s worth filling, you have to just do it,” says Michael Sheen, beaming broadly. “Life’s short, you know? You just have to make something happen.”

The ebullient 56-year-old Welsh actor seems to make a lot of things happen, throwing himself wholeheartedly into one project after another. Known to many for his uncanny screen portrayals of public figures — Tony Blair, Brian Clough, David Frost and Prince Andrew among them — this is also the man who staged a vast three-day community play across the streets of his hometown, who spent £100,000 of his own money wiping out