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Translator, linguist, cat lover. From living in Japan to living in the UK. Mainly Sherlock and Good Omens (hurt by S4, healed by GO).
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(NO SPOILERS)

Movieweb video interview with Michael and David :)❤

Question: How do your perfomances impact each other?

David: Tthat's two difficult questions rolled into one there, isn't it. I mean, I I think that we very much enjoy working together right and I we've often said that... or certainly I feel that Crowley doesn't really exist without Aziraphale-

Michael: Likewise.

David: -and therefore any performance that one gives doesn't really exist without the other performance and that's what creates the whole, really, that's if there's a sort of heart of the show it's where these two characters meet and that's always a sort of joy and a and a thrill to play.

Michael: Yeah. I mean I love watching what David does with Crowley around the idea of someone who underneath everything on the surface there is a kind of decency and a love there and being able to see how he expresses that through a kind of a mask of Crowley I find that endlessly enjoyable and fascinating to watch and I think that's me Michael but as Aziraphale I think that's also what um what pushes Aziraphale as well so in scenes where... that are very emotional I think you're right I think in Season Two we get some incredibly emotional places and seeing what David's doing and what Crowley is doing definitely pushes me and Aziraphale into places that you would, you know, wouldn't necessarily think that that character would go to.

David: Yes. And I think the thing that sort of sums up Aziraphale and Michael does beautifully there's a sort of learned naivety there's a there's these two sort of apparently opposing to those that there's a creature who's existed for millennia who seems constantly surprised about everything ,there's a sort of a sweetness to that a sort of purity to that which is also a sort of... has a wisdom to it and the two things shouldn't really exist at the same time but there's something in that Michael captures that is just sort of that you couldn't really bottle, that is also I think what pulls Crowley in - and infuriates Crowley at the same time, but I think they are both infuriated and drawn to each other irrepressibly

Question: What does this series say about good and evil?

Michael: Well, I mean, for me what I keep rediscovering with this story and these characters is that absolutism is dangerous and that, you know, the window dressing of religions and philosophies and that kind of stuff can be the stuff that people kill for and it's the stuff that's at the heart of it which is always about loving that is, you know, that's what you need to get to, and that through the gray areas and the flaws, you know, the it's... it is our flaws that makes us aware that we need each other and that, you know, through embracing your flaws you reach out to someone else and that's what connects us and I think that ultimately is what I keep finding in this story all the time.

David: It's that good and evil are not simplistic concepts, that they all exist within within a variety of shades of gray and that what trumps all of that is meeting somewhere in the middle for some sort of tolerance and kindness and understanding I think that's the sort of at the heart of what Terry and Neil were saying, I'll be dressed up in this wonderful fantasy hilarious glorious story.

Michael: And why I think there's such a great recipe in this story where you have these huge epic apocalyptic, you know, massive backdrops and contexts and and big philosophical questions being asked but ultimately everything comes down to people being a bit rubbish of things, bit inept and you know and that's ultimately what everything keeps being reduced to and there's something sort of glorious about that.

'we get some incredibly emotional places' 👀

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ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS S2 BTS VIDEO! :)❤ 🐍😊

David: Good Omens 2 will be once more under the bridge...

Michael: The kind of world that Neil and Terry Pratchett created here. It's... it seems to be expanding out into the world in all kinds of unexpected and and truly joyful ways.

Douglas Mackinnon (the directior): If Season one was a comedy about the End of the World, Season Two is a comedy about the beginning of everything else.

Miranda Richardson (demon Shax): The Bromance is continuing.

Doon Mackichan (Archangel Michael): What a cast, is all I can say, incredible, incredible cast.

Liz Carr (angel Saraqael): But of course a script of Good Omens is a whole different thing because anything can happen.

Shelley Con (Prince of Hell Beelzebub): There's always a smirk somewhere around the corner in a Good Omens script.

Quelin Sepulveda (angel Muriel): I had no idea what to expect, where this character was gonna go...

Liz: I feel quite honored that when they were thinking of the realms of sarcasm they thought of me.

Gloria Obianyo (angel Uriel): Seven-year-old me is like, 'Oh my God! This is the stuff of dreams!'

Maggie Service (human Maggie): A whole Fantastical Universe of joy that we just get to playing and you'll get to watch.

Tim Downie (Mr Brown): I am immeasurably, immeasurably excited.

Jon Hamm (Archangel Gabriel / Jim): You know I was very pleased when when I was brought back to be a part of that story.

Neil Gaiman: Ppeople are excited and I'm working so hard to tell them absolutely nothing. I'm very lucky because Michael Sheen and David Tennant love Crowley and Aziraphale. I think the first moment that I saw David and Michael acting together... all of a sudden there was Crowley and there was Aziraphale, it was like seeing two friends who I hadn't seen for years.

David: There's something about the way Neil sees the mundane that is extraordinary and there's something about the way things filter through his imagination and of course in this world it also sprinkled with the imagination of Terry Pratchett and those two together created this cocktail that is it's unlike anything you've seen anywhere else and yet it feels utterly familiar.

Michael: And they both have a sense of the absurdity of what it is to be a human.

Rob Wilkins: When you've got David and Michael in front of the camera David and Michael evaporate and you have Crowley in Aziraphale and that relationship it needed it needed interrogating more and of course we all know that Terry and Neil had conversations about what the sequel would be and Neil has taken that and he's blown it up in a way that the viewers are just going to love so what would Terry think? Terry would pat Neil on the back and he would push Good Omens forward, he would break a bottle of champagne over his ?bows? and be absolutely delighted and I know that, I'm the one person on Earth who's been entrusted to know that for certain and I promise you Terry would be absolutely delighted.

David: We've got some cast members coming back, returning but playing different parts which is a lovely little addition to things isn't it, so Miranda Richardson is back not playing the same role as Season One, she's now Shax, my replacement - Crowley's replacement on Earth.

Neil: Shelley Conn came in as Beelzebub and it feels in a weird way kind of like a Doctor Who Regeneration. We have a new demon called Furfur played by Rheece Shearsmith who was our Shakespeare in Season One.

David: Nina and Maggie were two of the Sisters in Season One, The nunnery of Doom, and now they are two characters imaginatively called Nina and Maggie.

Maggie: In season one really it was just me and the nuns, it was the nun gang, so to actually get to meet Aziraphale and Crowley... I hadn't been prepared for how delightful Aziraphale is.

Neil: Season Two begins about threem four years after the events of Season One.

Michael: Aziraphale and Crowley now are, you know, out on their own, they're.. they're a team to themselves.

Neil: Everything changes when Aziraphale gets an unexpected visitor.

Michael: A familiar face comes along with a mystery that needs solving and as Aziraphale and Crowley attempt to solve that mystery they realize that there are much more terrifying things ahead than they've had to deal with in the past. That involves having to go back through history as well to get clues as to what might be going on.

David: When we go back into these stories set within Aziraphale and Crowley's personal history there are moments within those stories where where their relationships sort of pivots or develops in some way. Himself and Aziraphale I think rely on each other even more in season two than they did in Season One because they are by necessity and by circumstance they're a they're a double act that nobody else can join.

Michael: It's extraordinary to see how important these characters and this story have become to a lot of people and how much people enjoy expressing themselves through art, through fan fiction.

David: I went to a Comic-Con and the amount of Crowleys and Aziraphales that I saw everywhere, the cosplaying just took off, and always in twos, which was joyous because of course the characters in my mind only exist in relation to each other. They are the Ying and the Yang.

Michael: It's such a... I think it's such a compliment and I think Neil feels the same way as well.

Maggie: Always clever Neil Gaiman, isn't he?

Nina: Yeah yeah, you'd have to sort of admit that at some point, yeah-

Maggie: He's quite good at his job.

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Added the transcript :)

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