Perennial nice guy Michael Sheen will walk on the wild side as he joins the third season of The Good Wife spin-off The Good Fight.
The very busy Welsh actor will actually be the villain of the upcoming season when he takes on the role of sleazy lawyer Roland Blum, who CBS All Access describes as "a man of appetites – drugs, sex, you name it".
Roland Blum will be a particularly cunning foe for Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski) and her team in the courtroom because he's "far more interested in winning than the niceties of following the law".
Season three of The Good Fight is all about truth, as Lockhart and her firm debate whether they can effectively resist the Trump administration and still effectively win cases in the post-truth era of the US.
Returning alongside Christine Baranski will be three of Diane's closest associates – Cush Jumbo as Lucca Quinn, Rose Leslie as Maia Rindell and Audra McDonald as Liz Lawrence.
As mentioned, this villainous character is quite a change of pace for Sheen, who has most recently been playing the angel Aziraphale opposite David Tennant's demonic Crowley in Neil Gaiman's apocalyptic series Good Omens.
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It was also announced last month that Sheen would play the roving reporter in an all-new musical version of Jeff Wayne's concept album War of the Worlds, based on the classic H.G. Wells science fiction novel.
[Michael Sheen recording War of the Worlds]
Sheen will be making his debut as the sleazy Roland Blum in The Good Fight early next year on CBS All Access in the US and on More4 in the UK.
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