Oh No They Didn't! - Robert Sheehan and his glorious curls grace .

century men who hold the obligation to send an accused witch (played by Claire Foy) to a distant abbey to suffer trial Cage plays Behmen, a former Crusader, who is the leader of the group. Sheehan is Kay, an eager young man who aspires to get a knight."Season of the Witch" is only one of various films that Irish actor Sheehan has been doing in addition to appearing in numerous TV programs. He is currently co-starring in the BAFTA-winning sci-fi TV series "Misfits," which is approximately a grouping of young delinquents who have superpowers. After "Season of the Witch," Sheehan`s next movie is the comedy "Killing Bono" (based on music journalist Neil McCormick`s memoir of the same title), which shows how Neil (played by Ben Barnes) and his younger brother, Ivan (played by Sheehan), were in a lot together and, in their failed attempts to go rock stars, were overshadowed by 4 of their old school mates who went on to become the superstar band U2.While Sheehan was in New York City to promote "Season of the Witch," I sat down with him for this single interview. While chatting over tea at the Ritz-Carlton lounge in midtown Manhattan, Sheehan opened up around his hilarious experiences while filming "Season of the Witch," which power he would require the near in actual life, and his fond memories of his "Killing Bono" co-star Pete Postlethwaite, who died of cancer just two years before this interview.What was the toughest scene for you to do in "Temper of the Witch"?There were a few scenes I had to place and isolate as important scenes to do with my character _ this young acolyte guy who gets the balls of organization within him to be the troupe across perilous Europe. So there`s a particular setting where they knock me off the horse, and they find me following them. It was quite tough, because it was rather a surreal moment _ It was quite scary. And so I remember holding it together was the principal challenge and being good and not shaking at the knees.For a lot of movies that are good in tone, I ever hear stories that the humor on the film`s set was actually quite jovial. Was that the shell with "Season of the Witch," and if so, was there a particular setting where you had to do a lot of takes because people kept laughing?Every day! It was such a lovely unit. We were all out from home. We were all out of our comfort zone. We were all thrown together. We had a big laugh. There was a view round the campfire where we`re all telling stories. None of us could hold a flat face. It all fell on Ron [Perlman, who plays Felson, Behmen's right-hand man]. Everybody else was trembling with laughter, and he was stressful to keep it serious.There was one aim when Nic [Cage] was quite mad at himself. We were running for 13 hours straight, and it was nighttime, and it was a bit cold. And we all started laughing. And [Nicolas Cage] got quite angry at himself and said, "I`ve got to stop laughing!" And he put his script in the fire! We were like, "What are you doing, man?" And he`s like, "The hurt will help."Did it work?[He laughs.] No, it didn`t play at all. And it made me laugh more!What was your hearing process like for "Season of the Witch"?It was a serial of auditions. In the foremost two auditions, I stood in a little sweaty room with a camera with Elaine Grainger, who put the film. She said, "Right! Put him thither and him there. And reckon this. Here`s your sword." It was all very contrived because we had to do it within four bare walls. So the first audition felt a bit awkward; it felt like it didn`t go that well. And the moment one felt a bit better, I thought, but I still felt pretty doubtful about it.And so in the third audition, I met ["Season of the Witch" director] Dom Sena, and that went very well. It was at the third one, with the director there and everything, that`s the one that actually worked for me, and that`s probably why I ended up getting the part, which was nice.You had to do sword fighting in "Season of the Witch," and you had to play guitar for "Killing Bono." Which science was harder to learn?I would say sword fighting is physically harder, because you take that [sword fighting] choreography between me and Ron [Perlman] - we had to run that through from beginning to finish, and by the end, every time my chest would take to be beating but not heaving. I found sword fighting to be like a dance with a sword. So in that way, it`s probably easier, because it becomes fluid. And formerly it becomes fluid, it`s like riding a bike: You don`t mean about it. You simply go into the moves, and that`s it.Whereas with playing guitar, I knew a small bit of guitar, but I`m absolutely not an average player. I`m still a beginner. But I ground it difficult when it came to things like kicking.Have you seen "Killing Bono" yet?Yes. I`ve seen it twice.Since "Killing Bono" is based on Neil McCormick`s memoir, does the film have a first-person, voiceover narration by the Neil McCormick character or is the story told strictly from a third-person perspective?It`s third-person perspective. It starts out with him giving a very unstable account of why he`s in this very weird position where he`s gone mad. And then it goes backward to [Neil and Ivan McCormick`s] earlier lives.But it doesn`t keep referencing [the source of the film]. It just starts out at a later stage where it builds up to that point where he`s gone mental and gone murderous. And we make up that point showing their musical career or whatever you need to claim it. But the film, for the purposes of drama, it puts forth this thing that Ivan was actually accepted into U2 _ and Neil keeps it from him in a really sly way.And in actual life, Ivan was spurned by U2 after he auditioned for the band.Right. And in the movie, Neil says, "No, my brother`s with me! He`s the top guitarist with me and that`s it!" And eventually, when we`re doing good and our band`s career is pick up, it all comes to blows. So for dramatic purposes, that fish was put in. And so it becomes about these two brothers who hate each other and enjoy each other. They can`t go with each other, and they can`t be without each other."Killing Bono" got a 15 certificate (which is like to an R rating in the United States) mostly because of a specific sex scene with Ben Barnes as Neil McCormick. In the book, Neil talks abut having a lot of sex partners, so is the scenery in the picture something that was in the book?Yes. It`s the picture with the pattern he finds at a family party. It`s rather hard-on sex with a topless girl. Why is it ever the sex and not the force [that makes a movie get a stricter rating/certificate]? It`s strange. Like with "Blue Valentine." It`s a beautiful film.They made the right decision to modify the valuation for "Blue Valentine" from NC-17 to R. There have been more explicit sex scenes in R-rated movies.You know, the only aspect [in "Blue Valentine"] I had to look away at was the abortion scene _ with the needle. If it would be anything, I thinking it would be that picture [that was responsible for the NC-17 rating]. But it wasn`t! It was the scene where [Dean, played by Ryan Gosling] goes down on [Cindy, played by Michelle Williams].I love this is really sad to speak almost right now, but what are your memories of running with Pete Postlethwaite in "Killing Bono"?Just being star-struck when meeting him. "You`ve been in so many films of my childhood." It was such an honor. Pete was really ill when we were working together.So you knew he had cancer when you worked with him?Yeah, we knew, because I think he was getting chemotherapy at the time. And he was running around that as well, which is admirable. It was a big matter for him to continue running and making films and also trying to give himself healthy with the chemo, which is very, very strong on the system. It was a very surrealistic and unknown and marvellous thing to be working with him, knowing he was ill and not knowing if he`d get through it, because the crab was at a later stage.Nick Hamm, who directed "Killing Bono," had been friends with Pete for 30 years. And on the final day [of filming the movie], Nick was weeping and said, "I know you, Pete." He was one of the best actors to always be put on this planet. He was an amazing, amazing fellow.Ben Barnes gave me a sneak preview of the "Killing Bono" soundtrack when he played me songs from the movie. What do you remember of the original music that was written for "Killing Bono"? And can you talk about your contributions to the soundtrack?There`s Ben and his rock`n`roll voice. In candour to him, I was blown out by the fact that he has a very great voice. He has a great, high-pitched rock`n`roll style.One of the songs has my vocal, which I`m real gallant of. It was scripted by Ed Kowalczyk [the old lead vocalist of Live]. It`s called "The Great Beyond." [Sheehan starts singing the song.] It`s a full-on rock`n`roll song. That came through Ian Flooks, who`s U2`s agent, who plant this course and asked Ed Kowalczyk, "Can we use this track?"So there`s a scene in "Killing Bono" with you singing lead vocals. It doesn`t look like Neil McCormick would release the spotlight over to his younger brother that easy to sing lead vocals on a song. Did that come about through some strife or was it an amicable decision?It`s because strife, because Neil`s basically been turfed. That`s where it comes from. And the matter is, in the film, he`s been holding back slightly-more-innocent Ivan from being a rock star. And so he realizes that Ivan is a rock star already, and Neil`s just been trying to dominate him and be his big brother. I`m the March to his Bono. He`s the one with the croons and the moves, and I`m the guitarist with not as much stage presence. That`s the active in the film.The relationship that Ben, the director and I worked out was that it would be like "Withnail and I," where you`ve got one guy [Neil McCormick] spinning off the planet, going: "It`s OK! We can get more money!" "What are you talking about? We`re broke!" And Neil is always pushing, "It`s OK! We can get a gig!" So Ben plays this guy who believes himself to be a rock star, and the remainder of us are keep on planet Earth going, "Look, Neil, just calm down! We`re not there yet!" So it was a dainty sort of stubbornness, head-to-head, brotherly thing in the center of it.You`ve been very busy as an actor. When do you start filming the third series/season of "Misfits"?I`m at a point where we`re trying we`re make projects and "Misfits" all go together. The class is tolerant of chaotic at the moment. Hopefully, it`ll be in mid-May of 2011.We left off with the "Misfits" characters at a crossroads where they can exchange their superpowers. Which power would you take for yourself, if you could do it in real life?It would get to be flight. If I could fly, I don`t think I`d be capable to give that up. The remainder of them are quite anodyne: invisibility, etc. Flight just seems more magical or out-there. That would be one I make to choose.Out of everyone in the "Temper of the Glamour" cast and crew, who made you laugh the most?It would be Stephen Graham [who plays the con man Hagamar] or Nic Cage, but if I had to drive to take one, I`d probably take to say Stephen Graham, because he`s such a "Labourer the Lad." He`s 100 miles an hour, all the time. He`s full of living and hilariously funny, but not trying to be. And Nic`s the same. He`s unintentionally funny. He finds the most eccentric and outlandish things funny. He made me laugh quite a lot, but in a different way.You`ve been an actor for most of your life. What`s your earliest memory of wanting to get an actor?I remember watching "Demolition Man" when I was approximately 9 or 10. Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes! That film was way too wild for a 9- or 10-year-old to be watching, but I saw it when I was around that age, and I remember thinking "Whoa! These guys are such movie stars!" For a young lad, it`s always a real action-packed, shoot-`em-up movie that sort of gets you.SourceRobert. singing? Oh no.