Sheen reveals Ziggy influence for 'Tron'

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'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: "I was going for a sort of albino Ziggy Stardust. A one-man walking Andy Warhol Factory.

"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's in white: white hair, no eyebrows.

"It'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."

He added that other inspirations for the role included Tim Curry's Frank-N-Furter from The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Mae West.

"I wanted him to be a human pop-cultural jukebox," Sheen said: "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."