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Penny, this is my best impression of course, because the story is so fishy, but then again, I think if the story gains traction as he gets more notoriety, his team will have no choice but to finally address the topic, and we'll see what happens from there, and we'll be able to make true impressions from that.
 
I agree. The more famous he gets the more the story will start moving to the surface. People are going to start looking him up, see the story, and start making their own assumptions without taking pause and putting 2 and 2 together. After awhile, he's going to have to address it and set the record straight.
 
Excerpts from NPR:

On starring in four movies in the past year

"The way that I work is that when I'm involved in something, I get really intensely involved in that but then I'm pretty good at washing it away once I finish it ... It's no longer in my psyche. Of course, there are some things that might be in the subconscious that I might use or recall later. But really, I was dealing with Jung in that time frame, and then I had to go and manipulate metal a little bit [for X-Men] and then we were doing Shame after X-Men. By the time I got to Shame, I wasn't really thinking at all about Carl Jung. It was just then about getting inside of the character."

On porn

"I've watched porn, yeah. I suppose the difference between my teenage porn experiences and today ... is this sort of access. When I was 15 and trying to get to the top shelf without being caught and then having to muster up the courage to get to the counter to pay for whatever it was – magazine or DVD – you have to deal with the shame there and then. Now you're a couple of clicks away and there's millions of options."

On starring in the period films Jane Eyre and A Dangerous Method

"The main thing for me with them was use of vocabulary: articulation especially within the academic world. If you didn't have a command of the language that you discoursed in, then you wouldn't survive ... I always think that the dialogue in the script is like a piece of music and that's another reason why I keep repeating it. It's like a scale, trying to unlock the different rhythms. Once you've done all that and you concentrate in that, you want to throw it away because at the end of the day, yes the people behave differently, the etiquettes are different, but essentially, they're exactly the same."

On playing Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre

"I really wanted to focus on ... the fact that Rochester talks on an equal level with the governess alone would have been not good in that time period. That was not the done thing. And the fact that he is a sort of rebel within that, he does not like this social class that he's a part of and you can see that in his awkwardness when Blanche comes and he's courting her. He find the people ugly and the intellectual side of him is there ... He really needs her more than she needs him. She has the capability of saving him. He's a closed sort of package because the times he has opened himself up, he's got burnt pretty badly so he prefers to keep a cold exterior on things and protect himself ... I saw him as a bipolar character and I went with that idea."
 
But at the same time it must be ****ing maddening, to be someone in his camp and/or someone who quite believes in him. Like, why would you wait until you're dragged in the mud before standing up and say, "well, if you must know...here's my pov"? Ok, that's the last I'll write about it, bc it makes me want to shake him like a tree and go "you've worked so hard to get here, sir, ****ing properly weather this storm!".

You're right Ejm, the interview with Charlie Rose is really quite lovely and it's available for view on the website http://www.charlierose.com/.
 
Take this for what it's worth (though, what exactly it's worth, I don't know - hopefully nada). It's from the New York Daily News. Posted two hours ago.

FML if it's true.

Michael Fassbender reunites with ex-girlfriend Leasi Andrews over Golden Globes Weekend

MICHAEL FASSBENDER enjoyed a torrid — and rather public — reunion with an ex-girlfriend, “Dante’s Cove” actress Leasi Andrews, early Monday morning. A source says the “Shame” actor and his former flame, who has a son with movie producer Lawrence Bender, got very hot and heavy “in a chair by the bathroom” at the Writers Room in Los Angeles.

Fassbender ran into Andrews when he arrived at the drinking den for post-Golden Globes partying with Gerard Butler. Earlier in the evening, the two hunks hung at CAA’s party at the Sunset Tower hotel with Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, George Clooney and Stacy Keibler.

After their PDA session, our source says the couple grabbed a cab to the Sunset Marquis Hotel, where Fassbender had a villa. Andrews was spotted leaving the hotel after noon in slippers. Fassbender’s agent did not respond to a request for comment and a rep for Andrews could not be reached.

Fassbender and Andrews’ reunion is interesting in light of allegations that the exotic beauty made against the “X-Men: First Class” actor in 2010. In March of that year, Andrews filed a motion in L.A. Superior Court asking for an order of protection against Fassbender and demanding that he move out of their Bel-Air home. As the Daily News reported, she claimed in court papers that in July 2009, Fassbender “threw [her] in a drunken fury and in November dragged her alongside their car, hurting her ankle and bursting an ovarian cyst.”

Andrews withdrew the motion in April 2010 because, according to a friend at the time, she didn’t want “to hurt” Fassbender’s blossoming career.


http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/michael-fassbender-reunites-ex-girlfriend-leasi-andrews-golden-globes-weekend-article-1.1007895
 
Take this for what it's worth. It's from the New York Daily News. Posted two hours ago.

FML if it's true.

Michael Fassbender reunites with ex-girlfriend Leasi Andrews over Golden Globes Weekend

MICHAEL FASSBENDER enjoyed a torrid — and rather public — reunion with an ex-girlfriend, “Dante’s Cove” actress Leasi Andrews, early Monday morning. A source says the “Shame” actor and his former flame, who has a son with movie producer Lawrence Bender, got very hot and heavy “in a chair by the bathroom” at the Writers Room in Los Angeles.

Fassbender ran into Andrews when he arrived at the drinking den for post-Golden Globes partying with Gerard Butler. Earlier in the evening, the two hunks hung at CAA’s party at the Sunset Tower hotel with Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, George Clooney and Stacy Keibler.

After their PDA session, our source says the couple grabbed a cab to the Sunset Marquis Hotel, where Fassbender had a villa. Andrews was spotted leaving the hotel after noon in slippers. Fassbender’s agent did not respond to a request for comment and a rep for Andrews could not be reached.

Fassbender and Andrews’ reunion is interesting in light of allegations that the exotic beauty made against the “X-Men: First Class” actor in 2010. In March of that year, Andrews filed a motion in L.A. Superior Court asking for an order of protection against Fassbender and demanding that he move out of their Bel-Air home. As the Daily News reported, she claimed in court papers that in July 2009, Fassbender “threw [her] in a drunken fury and in November dragged her alongside their car, hurting her ankle and bursting an ovarian cyst.”

Andrews withdrew the motion in April 2010 because, according to a friend at the time, she didn’t want “to hurt” Fassbender’s blossoming career.


http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/m...drews-golden-globes-weekend-article-1.1007895

If this is true than he is an idiot.
 
I doubt he will ever address those rumors it happened 3 years ago but his father did.

Speaking to The Irish Sun, he said: "I don't know where she is getting this story from, Michael is the most gentle man you could ever meet."

When asked about the fact that she had filed for a restraining order, a surprised Josef said: "Is she? Michael has been in England for the last six months. I don't know how anything like that could have happened."


But according to the New York Daily News, Michael reunited with ex-girlfriend Leasi Andrews over Golden Globes weekend :wtf:

MICHAEL FASSBENDER enjoyed a torrid — and rather public — reunion with an ex-girlfriend, “Dante’s Cove” actress Leasi Andrews, early Monday morning. A source says the “Shame” actor and his former flame, who has a son with movie producer Lawrence Bender, got very hot and heavy “in a chair by the bathroom” at the Writers Room in Los Angeles.

Fassbender ran into Andrews when he arrived at the drinking den for post-Golden Globes partying with Gerard Butler. Earlier in the evening, the two hunks hung at CAA’s party at the Sunset Tower hotel with Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, George Clooney and Stacy Keibler.

After their PDA session, our source says the couple grabbed a cab to the Sunset Marquis Hotel, where Fassbender had a villa. Andrews was spotted leaving the hotel after noon in slippers. Fassbender’s agent did not respond to a request for comment and a rep for Andrews could not be reached.

Fassbender and Andrews’ reunion is interesting in light of allegations that the exotic beauty made against the “X-Men: First Class” actor in 2010. In March of that year, Andrews filed a motion in L.A. Superior Court asking for an order of protection against Fassbender and demanding that he move out of their Bel-Air home. As the Daily News reported, she claimed in court papers that in July 2009, Fassbender “threw [her] in a drunken fury and in November dragged her alongside their car, hurting her ankle and bursting an ovarian cyst.”

Andrews withdrew the motion in April 2010 because, according to a friend at the time, she didn’t want “to hurt” Fassbender’s blossoming career.

Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/michael-fassbender-reunites-ex-girlfriend-leasi-andrews-golden-globes-weekend-article-1.1007895
 
How reliable is the New York Daily News? There were tweets about him being at the CAA party, but don't you think there would be something about him getting hot and heavy with ROC?
 
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Speak of the devil: It is part of the actor¹s talent and enigma that no one assumes to know what the Irish-German actor is going to be like. A stylist has cautioned that Fassbender's "running on fumes" after staying out until 2:30 a.m. the night before, first going to CAA's pre-Globes party and then dancing at an undisclosed location.
 
How reliable is the New York Daily News? There were tweets about him being at the CAA party, but don't you think there would be something about him getting hot and heavy with ROC?


The NY Daily News is pretty reliable and I don't see why they would lie about this (and the locations and events are correct) they must have been reliable witnesses or they wouldn't even publish the story.
If they really hooked up then yeah he's definitely an idiot and people are going to believe her little story even more, it's a bad PR move.

Remember when witnesses said that he hooked up/making out with Zoe Kravitz in Toronto (TIFF) at an after party and she tried to hide her face the morning after, so it's not the first time this kind of behavior happened.
 

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In the special Indie Issue of The Hollywood Reporter, the acclaimed chameleonic star of "Shame," "Dangerous Method" and "X-Men: First Class" reveals how he survived years of struggle: "I would say to myself, I'm good enough. That became my mantra."

On the day before the Golden Globes in LA, and with a powerful friendly handshake, Michael Fassbender arrives in his own dark jeans, sweater and sports jacket to a THR cover shoot. It is part of the actor¹s talent and enigma that no one assumes to know what the Irish-German actor is going to be like. A stylist has cautioned that Fassbender's "running on fumes" after staying out until 2:30 a.m. the night before, first going to CAA's pre-Globes party and then dancing at an undisclosed location. But he is upbeat, pleasant and affectionate (he gladly gives out hugs). Mercurial, he wears a wide grin you rarely see on the big screen. Confides one member of Fassbender's inner circle, who says the actor sometimes can be caught doing his own rendition of Waren G's "Regulate": "I always tell Michael that if James Bond and Peter Sellers got together, he'd be their love child.' His response, 'I'm leaning a little more towards Sellers these days.'"

In just two short years, the 34-year-old has established himself as one of the most versatile, admired and in-demand actors in Hollywood. The Hollywood Reporter's senior film reporter Pamela McClintock caught Fassbender as he stands poised on the cusp of superstardom (he's next up in Ridley Scott's Prometheus) and takes a deeper look at what keeps the indefatigable leading man perpetually looking for new challenges.
Some of the revelations from the hot actor in THR's cover story:


FASSBENDER'S CURE TO OVERWORK: SKYDIVING

After shooting and promoting six movies in 20 months, and receiving a Venice Film Festival best actor award and a Golden Globe nomination, Fassbender slipped away to the Hawaiian island of Oahu in January. Following that relentless schedule and his first real introduction to fame in 2011, Hollywoods new "It" actor could have collapsed stone-cold. Instead, the motorcycle enthusiast (he currently rides a BMW 1200 GS Adventure) did what any amateur adrenaline junkie might do on vacation: He jumped out of a plane high over the island. "It was the most amazing rush," recalls Fassbender. "I was strapped to the instructor, who was behind me. For 50 seconds, you're free-falling, and your brain is saying, What are you doing? Once the canopy opens, he unhooks certain things and you drop down a bit. It's a crazy feeling to jump out of an airplane and land on the ground."


ON GOING NUDE, MEETING SEX ADDICTS AND USING YOU TUBE TO HONE HIS CRAFT

Fassbender says what attracted him to the role of Brandon, a sex addict in indie drama Shame, was the chance to explore the desperate search for connection; playing a young Jung in A Dangerous Method allowed him to morph into a historical character. "I was a bit worried that I'd perhaps bitten off more than I could chew," he says. "But I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable." Jeremy Thomas, a producer on Dangerous Method, says Fassbender who was director David Cronenberg's first choice to play Jung read the script over and over again, even during production, something Thomas has never seen an actor do. "It's one of his secret weapons," he says. Fassbender says he's grown deft at using YouTube to study accents (his own is Irish) or to watch a grainy interview with an elderly Jung. For Shame, he met with recovering sex addicts: "One man had the same intimacy issues that Brandon had, so it was very helpful to me, and I was very grateful that he opened up." Additionally, he says there was no time to feel too self-conscious when shooting Shame, says Fassbender. It helped that director Steve McQueen kept the set intimate. "We moved very fast. We shot it in 25 days, so I kind of had to get over it and get on with it," he says.


HOW THE ACTOR'S FATHER REACTED TO HIS FULL FRONTAL NUDITY

In the Fox Searchlight movie, Fassbender bares it all, figuratively and literally. While George Clooney, upon beating Fassbender for best actor in a drama at the Golden Globes, made a crack about Shame ("I would like to thank Michael Fassbender for taking over the frontal nudity responsibility I had"), and his, um, generous endowments haven't gone unnoticed by the audience, Fassbender says he has only seen the movie once in whole at the Venice Film Festival with his dad. There, Fassbender jokes that his father was "very proud" when his full frontal scene came on screen. And while the actor was comfortable to chat about being in the buff for the film, any talk of an Oscar nom left him slightly fidgety. "It would just be a bonus, but of course I would take my mom down the red carpet," he says.


FASSENDER REVEALS NEW X-MEN DETAILS


The actor says he’s confident that Fox will make a follow up to Matthew Vaughn's critically acclaimed origins pic X-Men: First Class, in which he played a young Magneto. “I’m very proud that were able to pare it down and make it about relationships and the characters. The action sequences were there to support those relationships, as opposed to the other way around.


THE ACTOR ONCE LIVED WITH REJECTION, A HOLE IN HIS WINDOW

The son of two restaurant owners, Fassbender moved to London at 19 and attended the Drama Centre. "It took me a while to come to grips with how expensive London was. My parents helped me out, but we never had a lot of money," he says. "So it was very sticky the first three or four years between paying drama school fees and surviving. The first place I lived was a studio I shared with a Brazilian girl. We weren't seeing each other or anything, but I remember there was a big hole in the window and it was so cold in the winter." Fassbender's first acting role of note was in HBO's Band of Brothers, which aired in 2001. He was confident it would lead to other offers. It didn't. "I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated," he recalls. "I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy. "Between roles including a Guinness commercial (in which his character swims from Ireland to New York) and a one-off, Agatha Christie's Poirot, he took odd jobs to survive, unloading trucks or bartending. He even did market research. "I had to call people who had filed complaints about the Royal Mail and see if they were happy with how their grievances were dealt with. Most of the time they weren't," he says. All along, he says, "My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough.' That became my mantra."


SODERBERGH CAST FASSBENDER IN HAYWIRE DESPITE STUDIO'S INITIAL REJECTION

When director Steven Soderbergh told Relativity Media he wanted to cast Fassbender in Haywire, Relativity, which financed the action pic, balked. That was more than two years ago and the Irish-German actor still was relatively unknown in wider Hollywood circles. “I thought, ‘You should just be hoping he says yes,’ ” recalls Soderbergh. As for himself, the director already felt he was late to the Fassbender party. “I’d seen him in Hunger and Inglourious Basterds, and my reaction was, ‘This guy’s a movie star.’ It was blatantly obvious to me,” he says. Fassbender is only onscreen for about 10 minutes of Haywire — which opened in early January — but his performance is a highlight of the film. Soderbergh shot the scenes in Dublin and quickly learned three things: Fassbender is a consummate professional, a cinephile and a social butterfly. “He’s a blast. We’re out one night and it’s 3:30 a.m., and we’re in someone’s kitchen and Michael is singing. I’m like, ‘Dude, I gotta go,’ ” remembers Soderbergh. “The phrase Michael uses most often is, ‘So where are we going now?’ He’s the Duracell movie star.”


MARTIN SCORSESE, TOM ROTHMAN ARE AMONG HOLLYWOOD'S MANY FANS

Fassbender's next film will test his box office mettle, as he plays the character of David in Ridley Scott's return to the world of Alien, the highly-anticipated science-fiction opus Prometheus. But other than taking a role in McQueen's next film, Twelve Years a Slave, Fassbender confides he's been talking to Martin Scorsese (about what, he won't say) and also is working with writers to develop his own scripts. Says McQueen: "He's a game changer. He's got a vulnerability and sensuality that is very powerful. He's got an extraordinary femininity, while still being very much a man's man. That's what propels him to greater roles." Listening to Fox Filmed Entertainment chairman-CEO Tom Rothman, you can almost see the dollar signs in his eyes: "Michael is a Heisman Trophy triple threat a magnetic movie star, a supremely talented actor and a great guy."

Read THR's full Fassbender cover story>>
 

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I don't even know what to say about that Daily News report. I mean... if it is true, I can only think what I've been thinking all along, which is that we don't know the half. We have no idea what truly went on. It's highly likely that he's been keeping in touch with her all this time and if so, he obviously has his reasons. I can't speak for the man so all I can say is that he seems to have a good head on his shoulders so I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt (whether he's banging her again or not). Honestly, we know nothing... and that's the frustrating part.
 
Michael sweetheart, I love you dearly, but you seriously need a sassy gay friend to stop you when your about to make unwise choices (like making out with your ex-girlfriend who messed up your rep)



You know what's funny. This reminds me of my buddy who had this crazy relationship with this chick from my school It was one of those passionate ones that ended really badly. And yet, they still went back to each other from time to time (if not for a brief moment) and none of us would understand why.
 
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