The Sandman stars felt "the burden of people's dreams" while making the long-awaited adaptation

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Ever since the first issue of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman was published in 1989, there have been people trying to adapt it to screen – and over the years, the author hasn't hidden the fact that he's actively thwarted plans for those he didn't think would do it justice. 

Netflix's ten-episode take on the material not only has his seal of approval, but Gaiman was heavily involved in its creation. But that didn't stop actors Tom Sturridge, who plays the titular Dream, and Vivienne Acheampong, who appears as Dream's pal Lucienne, from feeling the pressure on set.

"He made this with us. He wrote the first episode, along with [showrunner] Allan [Heinberg] and David Goyer," Sturridge tells Total Film. "He was watching every single frame of everything we made. He was always present, if not physically because of COVID, but Zoomily. It's true to everything but yeah, it doesn't relax you because this is something that I care about so much. I'm such an enormous fan myself and, you know, the burden of people's dreams for it was very real, but to know that everything we were doing was being led in some way by its creator felt very reassuring, for sure."

Also starring the likes of Boyd Holbrook, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, David Thewlis, Jenna Coleman, and Gwendoline Christie, The Sandman lifts storylines straight from Gaiman's graphic novels. It follows Dream, a powerful cosmic being, as he journeys to different worlds – from Hell to modern-day London – to retrieve his tools and restore balance after being imprisoned for over a century by a ruthless magic user. 

Turns out, the latter had been trying to capture Death in the hope of resurrecting his dead son, but the spell went awry. Morpheus was mixed up in it – and his absence has caused