Michael Sheen as Aro
I saw a great blurb in the China Daily about Michael Sheen as Aro:
Summit Entertainment has just confirmed that Michael Sheen has been officially cast for The Twilight Saga: New Moon as Aro. Like others who have been recently added to the Twilight sequel cast.
Sheen, 40, who made his name with uncannily realistic portrayals of well-known figures in Oscar-winning films The Queen, Frost/Nixon and The Damned United, will get his biggest pay cheque yet, a reported £5million, to star in New Moon.
In New Moon, Sheen will play Aro, the leader of an Italian vampire clan called the Volturi. Director Chris Weitz confirmed Sheen’s casting to The Mail on Sunday and said he had ‘aggressively’ pursued the actor.
‘Michael’s role is so important because he’s the head of all vampires,’ he said. ‘Aro is, on the surface, a very gracious and friendly vampire, but beneath that he is a tremendous threat.’
Well, having read “New Moon” I would take exception to the characterization of Aro as friendly.
Aro seems very threatening and malevolent towards Edward. The Volturi passages I read has him weighing Edward’s fate and only Bella’s ambivalent resistance to the Jane powers and Alice’s revelations changed his mind.
I personally suspect it is Bella’s relationship to the Wolf clan in Forks that makes Aro see what Bella can pull out of the fire for the vampire cause.
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