How ‘The Assembly’ Producers Convinced Michael Sheen to Participate in a Three-Hour Grilling With 30 Neurodivergent Journalists: ‘It’s an Interview Without a Safety Net’

Celebrity interviews are usually a highly produced, intense tête-à-tête – not unlike the one Michael Sheen portrayed in “Frost/Nixon,” Peter Morgan’s dramatization of David Frost’s interviews with Richard Nixon.

But “The Assembly,” in which Sheen is grilled by a group of around 30 neurodiverse novice journalists, dispenses with the idea of a traditional celebrity interview altogether. The format is based on a French series called “Les Rencontres du Papotin,” which has seen French public figures from President Emmanuel Macron to “Call My Agent’s” Camille Cottin interrogated by a collective of participants with autism or learning disabilities.

Disability-led U.K. production outfit Rockerdale Studios (“Mission: Accessible”) recently recorded a

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