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"Michael Sheen has revealed that he was influenced by Ziggy Stardust for his upcoming role in Tron: Legacy. Speaking at Comic-Con, the actor told The Guardian that he took inspiration from of David Bowie&amp;#039;s alter ego, the central character of his 1972 concept album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Sheen said: &amp;quot;I was going for a sort of albino Ziggy Stardust. A one-man walking Andy Warhol Factory. &amp;quot;Joe [director Joseph Kosinski] wanted the character to look completely different to everyone else in the Tron world, so whereas everyone is in black, he&amp;#039;s in white: white hair, no eyebrows.  &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a good choice, I think. Castor is a character who reflects and assimilates everything around him, then adapts to survive. I liked the idea of him as a shape-shifter who keeps reinventing himself, and the obvious reference there has to be Bowie.&amp;quot; He added that other inspirations for the role included Tim Curry&amp;#039;s Frank-N-Furter from The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Mae West. &amp;quot;I wanted him to be a human pop-cultural jukebox,&amp;quot; Sheen said: &amp;quot;Joe said he needed my character to bring a whole different kind of energy to this film, and that I had to be the biggest showman ever.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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