{"id":786774,"date":"2026-09-29T21:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T21:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/786774\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T21:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T21:44:11","slug":"celebrity-traitors-star-michael-sheen-says-being-an-actor-will-be-a-disadvantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/786774\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Traitors star Michael Sheen says being an actor will be a ‘disadvantage’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Sheen has said he thinks being an actor will be a disadvantage while he is on Celebrity Traitors.<\/p>\n

The 57-year-old is among the stars who will go head to head in the second series of the BBC reality game spin-off<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A total of 21 presenters, comedians, actors and musicians<\/a> will try their hand at being traitors and faithfuls in the show, which airs on 1 October.<\/p>\n

The Hollywood actor from Port Talbot said he wanted to participate because he is a “big fan” of the show and wanted to be in the castle after previously filming in the area.<\/p>\n

Speaking about how his public persona may affect how others perceive and treat him on the show, the actor said: “Well, I do think it’s a disadvantage to be an actor because people immediately go, ‘oh well, he pretends for a living’.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think that is the case, because the whole point of acting is that you have to trick yourself into believing that what you’re doing is true. If you are consciously aware that you’re pretending or you’re saying things that aren’t true, then it’s bad acting. It’s just bad.<\/p>\n

“Just for me being an actor, I think that’s a disadvantage because people are already suspicious of that.<\/p>\n

“Beyond being an actor, just my persona, I don’t really know what people think about me. So, I don’t know if it’ll help or not.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Sheen has said he thinks being an actor will be a disadvantage while he is on Celebrity…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-786774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}