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Lockdown gave the story a whole new lease of life, he told Deadline.
We knew we needed it to take place somewhere with a history of unrest, he said.
It needed to feel like there was unfinished business there.
Michael Sheen (left) and protest scenes in ‘The Way’Mike Marsland/WireImage / BBC
Sheen moved back to Port Talbot around the timeThe Waywas first developing.
He subsequently sold his houses, gave the proceeds to charity and declared himself a not for profit actor.
He said his town is full of interesting contradictions.
Callum Scott Howells in ‘The Way’. Image: BBC
It has an extraordinary mixture of things and using that in the telling of this story was exciting.
Its that thing of people being stuck in the past and finding a new way forward, she added.
And I wanted us to have a dream-like quality.
Long may that continue because it would be a terrible, terrible thing if we stopped making that stuff.
