Comingsoon.net visited the set of Tron Legacy a few months ago. Whilst there, they got to observe and talk to the stars of this much anticipated sequel to the 1982 original.

“Michael Sheen walked (or rather WAS walked) onto the set looking like Ziggy-era David Bowie, with shocking white hair, tight-white leather outfit, pale skin, piercing white neon contacts, and, of course, a pimp cane! His suit was so tight he had to be assisted to merely lean on a tall stool to talk about his nightclub impresario character, Castor.”

They managed to get a few words from Michael in which he revealed a little more about his role in Tron.

“Well I remember when I first met Joe he was saying that this character is a showman,” said Sheen in his chipper English accent. “Wants to have big energy, for it to be very colorful and vivid and very different than everything else that has come before in the film. He’s a kind of chameleon character so you’re never quite sure who the real him is and keeps changing all the time. There’s a little bit of Frank-N-Furter, a little bit of Ziggy Stardust, a little bit of Joel Grey from ‘Cabaret,’ there’s all those kind of things in here.

“He owns this club and he’s supposedly the coolest cat in the city. He entertains in the club as well as being the owner of it. Apparently he’s also part of a resistance movement within the world of Tron, and Sam Flynn gets sent my way because there’s some cackle who might be able to help him, and if you want to get to him you have to go through me so that’s about all I’m going to tell you.”

They go on to describe the scene being filmed.

“In the scene being shot, Sam Flynn is being given a flamboyant tour of the club by Castor, who ascends the staircase, exclaiming “Have a drink, courtesy of the End-Of-Line Club. Libations for everyone! Change the scheme, ELECTRIFY THE BOYS AND GIRLS!” A tall, statuesque female clubgoer grabs Sam and sleekly directs him towards the bar, where TRON creator Steven Lisberger is bartending. Castor points his cane at Lisberger and gives him a little salute. An appropriate cameo.

The suits look glorious onscreen, but clearly painful in real life.”

“I like the way it looks, and that is it,” Sheen explained. “There is nothing else I like about it. There is not one bit of it that is comfortable, but it looks fantastic and the work that’s gone into it… all the work on the wardrobe department on this film has just been incredible. You know, they’ve worked so hard and I’ve had about six costume fittings over a series of, you know, a whole slew of months. Each time it gets tighter, each time I think I have to lose a little bit more weight. The fact that it lights up, all that kind of stuff is incredible.”

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