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!!!”
listen, fam, I am not usually one to deliver The Angst, but the thing you gotta know about me is that I do not suffer alone
So I need you to know, I absolutely need you to know, that as Aziraphale watches Crowley walk away, after he (Aziraphale) declares that it’s over between them
there is the slightest little lip wobble. did you see it??? HERE, LEMME GIVE YOU A CLOSE-UP
kill me now
JUST LOOK AT THE HEARTBREAK ON HIS FACE. Because he knows–he just knows–that this is it. Six thousand years and this is the last time he’ll ever see Crowley.
Even if he manages to stop Armaggedon, this is it. It’s over. He said it was over. Why did he do that? He doesn’t WANT it to be over. Six thousand years wasn’t enough, how is he gonna manage six thousand more without him?
the OTHER THING that I absolutely need you to see again is Crowley’s reaction to being told it’s over
he just stands there and stares. He just stands there for so long that I can’t gif it because it’s too big of a file. That’s how thrown Crowley is
play it cool, play it cool, he doesn’t know he just smashed my heart into the finest dust.
And the fact that Aziraphale only lasts a few seconds watching him leave?? before he has to look away??? It just fucking kills me.
Not only is it too painful for him, but he knows that he’s hurt Crowley, even though Crowley will never admit it, he’ll just internalize it just like he’s internalized everything that’s hurt him since the Falling. Just like he’s internalized the hurt from the Falling.