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 in the fantasy children's film "Mariah Mundi and the Midas Box". R. Kurt Osenlund of "Slant Magazine" said "the ever-versatile Sheen brings an artful hamminess to his role" but Matt Pais of "RedEye" found him "insufficiently zany" in "a part that Robert Downey Jr. would nail but never accept." His second film role of 2014 was a minor role in the political thriller "Kill the Messenger". Also in 2014, he starred in IFC's six-episode "The Spoils of Babylon", a television parody of classic, sweeping miniseries, in which he played the husband of Kristen Wiig's character. In 2015, Sheen starred opposite