Michael Sheen of David Frost in 2008's "Frost/Nixon", a film dramatisation of The Nixon Interviews of 1977. Despite appearing in the original stage production in a part written for him by Peter Morgan, Sheen was surprised to have been cast in the film: "Peter said he'd only be prepared to give the rights to someone who would cast me as Frost, which was very nice, but when the studios get their hands on something... Right up until we started filming I was prepared to be disappointed". Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" asserted that Sheen embodied his character in a "compelling, intense"
Michael Sheen 1993, Sheen appeared in the world premiere of Harold Pinter's "Moonlight" at the Almeida Theatre and made his television debut in the 1993 BBC mini-series "Gallowglass". Sheen played the title role in "Peer Gynt" in 1994. The Yukio Ninagawa production was staged in Oslo, Tokyo and at the Barbican Centre, London. "The Times" praised Sheen's "astonishing vitality" while "The Independent" found him "sensationally good" and noted that "the Norwegian press were grudgingly captivated by the mercurial Welsh boyo". In other 1994 work, Sheen appeared in "Le Livre de Spencer" at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, Paris and starred in the cross-dressing