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Spooky monks and Michael Sheen murals: behind the scenes of new BBC drama The Way

Source: BBC/Red Seam/Jon Pountney

Michael Sheen says he wants viewers of his new drama The Way “to feel like what it has felt like for the last 10 years of living” in the UK.

That is, “in a society where you don't know if you're in a horror film or a sitcom,” he told viewers at a Q&A for the show on Monday night (February 5). “Something that feels [like it has] life and death stakes suddenly goes incredibly surreal and absurd, and then goes back to being incredibly scary again.”

He's only half-joking. The on the Welsh coast. Despite being estranged from each other, they end up having to set out on a cross-country odyssey to safety when they become tied up with civil unrest in the area.

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