Michael Fassbender
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LOL I liked the clip of him with Natalie. The lighting was weird af and I'm completely lost with what's going on... the ending was confusing and at first I thought they were reading each other's minds or something. ha
Sarah Paulson and Michael Fassbender share a laugh while filming 12 Years A Slave.
I thought this was cute, a light behind the scene moment where Michael and Sarah break character.
Sarah Paulson and Michael Fassbender share a laugh while filming 12 Years A Slave.
I thought this was cute, a light behind the scene moment where Michael and Sarah break character.
Sarah needs to lay off the Botox. I'm started to get annoyed about seeing these expressionless botoxed faces on the silver screen.
Of course I would have given my left kidney to see Sarah's botoxed face at tomorrow's screening of TYAS at the LFF, but it's been sold out forever!
For the London peeps: Benedict Cumberbatch will definitely attend. My guess is that Michael and Steve will be there as well.
Am I the only one who thinks this GQ photoshoot was one of the least awful of his career so far??? At least when it comes to 'big production' photoshoots. The second GQ he covered, THAT photoshoot was terrible. This new one, with the exception of some clothing choices(and that tan) was pretty...him, I think. The 'elements'/environment on it were pretty him. I think even him felt less uncomfortable doing it. I ALWAYS imagine what goes trough his mind when he do this photoshoots 
mollie12 Altough I'm curious, I have a feeling that all the things you read are not THAT surprising. If they are about Michael being a womanizer or him sleeping with two girls(or more)at the same time, doing orgies, cheating on his girlfriends etc, coming from him, its not surprising at all. It was that right? come on, you don't need to give that much details!
Singra no, I'm not related to that person or anyone here, I'm a total newbie on this thing
mollie12 Altough I'm curious, I have a feeling that all the things you read are not THAT surprising. If they are about Michael being a womanizer or him sleeping with two girls(or more)at the same time, doing orgies, cheating on his girlfriends etc, coming from him, its not surprising at all. It was that right? come on, you don't need to give that much details!
Singra no, I'm not related to that person or anyone here, I'm a total newbie on this thing
Nope. I liked that it looked more relaxed.Am I the only one who thinks this GQ photoshoot was one of the least awful of his career so far??? At least when it comes to 'big production' photoshoots. The second GQ he covered, THAT photoshoot was terrible. This new one, with the exception of some clothing choices(and that tan) was pretty...him, I think. The 'elements'/environment on it were pretty him. I think even him felt less uncomfortable doing it. I ALWAYS imagine what goes trough his mind when he do this photoshoots
Michael Fassbender Explains Parallels Between '12 Years A Slave' & 'Wuthering Heights,' Talks Awards And More
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayl...hering-heights-talks-awards-and-more-20131018
here's something that Michael Fassbender does in "12 Years a Slave" (our review) that reveals the nature of his character, the unstable, probably psychotic plantation owner Edwin Epps, which wasn't on the page. Every time Epps is around one of his slaves, he's touching themhooking his arm around the neck of Solomon Northup (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor) as if the two of them were best buds, or propping his arm atop another's head, as if it were a fencepost. The gestures seem casual on the surface, even friendly, but because he is the master and they are slaves, it's something more threatening and contemptuous, erasing the notion of personal space. "It's the difference between me sitting here," Fassbender said, and then to demonstrate, abruptly moving his position on the couch so that our faces were practically touching, "and me sitting here. It changes the dynamic immediately. It's his space. He owns it. And he owns them. That's the way he sees it."
Fassbender thought a lot about the "space and rhythm and movement" in his performance, and made all sorts of suggestions to his longtime collaborator, director Steve McQueen, about what they could do to make Epps both more human and more of a villain. For one scene, the actor thought he could play "the buffoon," running around the hog farm like a comic character so that when the audience saw him, we would laugh at him. (Fassbender's slip in the mud during this scene was real, by the waysee the clip below). Fassbender thought we should see the character at rest.
"I thought, 'How do you pass the day? Plantation owners must get really bored,' " Fassbender said. "That's not the case for the slaves, but during those long days, in the heat, and the drinking on top of it? So I thought, 'Maybe I could be bathing my feet in cool water with a shammy on top of my head.' " All these "little things," Fassbender said, gave a previous life to whichever scene we come into, and add meaning. "It's about the physicality of the character, the work he does, the lack of work, all of those things. That's what Steve wanted me to bring."
During a later scene, the actor thought he should be holding something "like some soft toy" and then he remembered a little girl on set, who had portrayed a slave earlier in the shoot, whom he had befriended. "I thought, 'Maybe she could be in this scene, like Epps is priming her now, to be the new Patsey,' " Fassbender said, referring to the adult slave girl at the center of his character's obsessions (played by Lupita Nyong'o).
In order to explain that obsession, Fassbender referred to the relationship between Epps and Patsey as one of loveEpps loves Patsey, he insisted. When we reminded him that Epps repeatedly rapes Patsey, and rape isn't usually an expression of love but of power, he explained how he came about his understanding of it. "I think the real sort of crux for the character is his love for Patsey, and his inability to handle that," Fassbender said. "He doesn't have the equipment or the intellect to process that, or to allow himself to love her, or to express himself. His expression, we see it in the rape scene. In one moment, he's almost pleading with her, and in the next, that door is shut and he's beating her. He's trying to destroy her in the hope of destroying that feeling inside."
"Look at Heathcliff and Cathy in 'Wuthering Heights,' " Fassbender continued. "Would you consider them to be in love? Do you think she's in love with him? Don't you think there can be two people in love where one person is either more in love, or has a higher position of power than the other person? It doesn't always mean it's going to be pretty. It doesn't mean that the feeling isn't one of love. But it's just how it manifests itself physically. For me, it's love, but what you do with it is something else." Still, he conceded, "She's not in love with him."
Because Epps is so dependent on his slavesnot just economically, but emotionallyhe opts to spend time with them, even when there's no reason for it. He calls them into the house to dance in his home, aggravating his wife (played by Sarah Paulson), who throws a glass decanter at Patsey's face when she sees her husband watching her. During rehearsals at his loft apartment, Fassbender and Paulson discussed the state of the couple's marriage, and how it could have disintegrated to the point where he'd flaunt his preference for a slave girl in front of everyone, so that information would be underneath their performances.
"Both of us decided that I'd married into her family's money," Fassbender said. "And perhaps my character was a driver on her family's hog farm, that the hog farm is where the money came from, which allowed us to buy the plantation. We talked about how we don't have any children, and how Patsey was very close with Mrs. Epps at the beginning and worked along beside her, until things developed, when Mr. Epps started to make his feelings known in front of his wife."
Despite these conversations, Fassbender said that he wanted to keep an element of surprise in his work with the rest of the cast, and not "intellectualize it too much." And after any horrific scenes, he'd hug Nyong'o and Paulson, and make sure they were okay. "Those relationships between the characters are very much ones of conflict and tension, where you don't know what's going to happen next."
Of course, Oscar predictors think they know what's going to happen next, at least to the film itself"12 Years a Slave" has already been declared a frontrunner in several races, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor. Fassbender said this sort of prognostication doesn't affect him, "because there's nothing I can really do. Sit at home and think about winning a statue? Or being nominated for a statue? This is the film. This is what it is."
And while it would be nice to be acknowledged by his peers"I'd be lying if I said that wasn't true"he's more concerned a different kind of judge of his work: his mother. This film, he joked, will be less awkward to show her than "Shame" was. "And she'll tell me the truth," he laughed. "She's the one I'm nervous about."
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayl...hering-heights-talks-awards-and-more-20131018
here's something that Michael Fassbender does in "12 Years a Slave" (our review) that reveals the nature of his character, the unstable, probably psychotic plantation owner Edwin Epps, which wasn't on the page. Every time Epps is around one of his slaves, he's touching themhooking his arm around the neck of Solomon Northup (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor) as if the two of them were best buds, or propping his arm atop another's head, as if it were a fencepost. The gestures seem casual on the surface, even friendly, but because he is the master and they are slaves, it's something more threatening and contemptuous, erasing the notion of personal space. "It's the difference between me sitting here," Fassbender said, and then to demonstrate, abruptly moving his position on the couch so that our faces were practically touching, "and me sitting here. It changes the dynamic immediately. It's his space. He owns it. And he owns them. That's the way he sees it."
Fassbender thought a lot about the "space and rhythm and movement" in his performance, and made all sorts of suggestions to his longtime collaborator, director Steve McQueen, about what they could do to make Epps both more human and more of a villain. For one scene, the actor thought he could play "the buffoon," running around the hog farm like a comic character so that when the audience saw him, we would laugh at him. (Fassbender's slip in the mud during this scene was real, by the waysee the clip below). Fassbender thought we should see the character at rest.
"I thought, 'How do you pass the day? Plantation owners must get really bored,' " Fassbender said. "That's not the case for the slaves, but during those long days, in the heat, and the drinking on top of it? So I thought, 'Maybe I could be bathing my feet in cool water with a shammy on top of my head.' " All these "little things," Fassbender said, gave a previous life to whichever scene we come into, and add meaning. "It's about the physicality of the character, the work he does, the lack of work, all of those things. That's what Steve wanted me to bring."
During a later scene, the actor thought he should be holding something "like some soft toy" and then he remembered a little girl on set, who had portrayed a slave earlier in the shoot, whom he had befriended. "I thought, 'Maybe she could be in this scene, like Epps is priming her now, to be the new Patsey,' " Fassbender said, referring to the adult slave girl at the center of his character's obsessions (played by Lupita Nyong'o).
In order to explain that obsession, Fassbender referred to the relationship between Epps and Patsey as one of loveEpps loves Patsey, he insisted. When we reminded him that Epps repeatedly rapes Patsey, and rape isn't usually an expression of love but of power, he explained how he came about his understanding of it. "I think the real sort of crux for the character is his love for Patsey, and his inability to handle that," Fassbender said. "He doesn't have the equipment or the intellect to process that, or to allow himself to love her, or to express himself. His expression, we see it in the rape scene. In one moment, he's almost pleading with her, and in the next, that door is shut and he's beating her. He's trying to destroy her in the hope of destroying that feeling inside."
"Look at Heathcliff and Cathy in 'Wuthering Heights,' " Fassbender continued. "Would you consider them to be in love? Do you think she's in love with him? Don't you think there can be two people in love where one person is either more in love, or has a higher position of power than the other person? It doesn't always mean it's going to be pretty. It doesn't mean that the feeling isn't one of love. But it's just how it manifests itself physically. For me, it's love, but what you do with it is something else." Still, he conceded, "She's not in love with him."
Because Epps is so dependent on his slavesnot just economically, but emotionallyhe opts to spend time with them, even when there's no reason for it. He calls them into the house to dance in his home, aggravating his wife (played by Sarah Paulson), who throws a glass decanter at Patsey's face when she sees her husband watching her. During rehearsals at his loft apartment, Fassbender and Paulson discussed the state of the couple's marriage, and how it could have disintegrated to the point where he'd flaunt his preference for a slave girl in front of everyone, so that information would be underneath their performances.
"Both of us decided that I'd married into her family's money," Fassbender said. "And perhaps my character was a driver on her family's hog farm, that the hog farm is where the money came from, which allowed us to buy the plantation. We talked about how we don't have any children, and how Patsey was very close with Mrs. Epps at the beginning and worked along beside her, until things developed, when Mr. Epps started to make his feelings known in front of his wife."
Despite these conversations, Fassbender said that he wanted to keep an element of surprise in his work with the rest of the cast, and not "intellectualize it too much." And after any horrific scenes, he'd hug Nyong'o and Paulson, and make sure they were okay. "Those relationships between the characters are very much ones of conflict and tension, where you don't know what's going to happen next."
Of course, Oscar predictors think they know what's going to happen next, at least to the film itself"12 Years a Slave" has already been declared a frontrunner in several races, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor. Fassbender said this sort of prognostication doesn't affect him, "because there's nothing I can really do. Sit at home and think about winning a statue? Or being nominated for a statue? This is the film. This is what it is."
And while it would be nice to be acknowledged by his peers"I'd be lying if I said that wasn't true"he's more concerned a different kind of judge of his work: his mother. This film, he joked, will be less awkward to show her than "Shame" was. "And she'll tell me the truth," he laughed. "She's the one I'm nervous about."
Well from what I've gathered after watching TYAS, on the Epps character he was ignorant and very cruel at best and had a twisted way of dealing with his slaves, especially Patsey. Now entered Solomon who, the more he fought Epps' authority, and this always in a dignified way (urgh Chiwetel made me cry!), the more it confused and enraged Epps of his own ignorance, and that was the turning point of being even more cruel i.e. wanting to destroy by any means whatever dignity Solomon had, break his free spirit and such. And yet the human basis I found interesting in the way Fassbender portrayed is you almost pity the guy for his own ignorance - and I insist on almost because at the end of the day I didn't pity him - he becomes paranoid in terms of the Patsey/Solomon relationship and it shows that "human" side of him, like Solomon is a rival, plotting against him, taking Patsey "away" from him, taking any authority he may represent on the plantation, and within his own confusion, self loathing and loathing it all, Epps totally lashes out at what he estimates being his property....
Sorry hope it makes sense what I tried to explain, because I know that Fassbender has been walking on thin ice with the Epps character as in trying to humanize and sympathize with him, and finding the right words to explain it
Is Nicole Beharie still hung up on her ex-boyfriend Michael Fassbender?
When Nicole worked on Shame, she obviously spent a lot of time with Fassbender. While filming, he was actually dating Zoe Kravitz at the time, but during the Shame promotional tour months later, Nicole and Fassbender got together. Michael didnt have any qualms about calling Nicole his girlfriend in the press too he obviously liked her a great deal. They dated for a year and Nicole announced their split this past January. So its been about nine months with no Fassdong. Is Nicole still yearning for some Irish-German Thunder?
When Nicole worked on Shame, she obviously spent a lot of time with Fassbender. While filming, he was actually dating Zoe Kravitz at the time, but during the Shame promotional tour months later, Nicole and Fassbender got together. Michael didnt have any qualms about calling Nicole his girlfriend in the press too he obviously liked her a great deal. They dated for a year and Nicole announced their split this past January. So its been about nine months with no Fassdong. Is Nicole still yearning for some Irish-German Thunder?
Sleepy Hollow drew more than 13 million viewers for its premiere and has already been renewed for a second season but beautiful star Nicole Beharies joy is said to be muted because shes still pining away for her skirt-chasing former beau Michael Fassbender.
Nicole, who plays Lt. Abbie Mills on the show, fell head over heels with Fassbender after they met in 2011 on the film Shame. And she was said to be devastated when he dumped her. Bust Nicole is getting moral support and advice on the set of her hit show, which is loosely based on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Her handsome co-star Tom Mison is desperately trying to convince her to forget Michael and find a new guy.
Although Nicole still misses Fassbender, shes slowly but surely coming around shes thankful to have the series to keep her busy and good friends like Tom to keep her positive and grounded. Nicole is beautiful and will find the right guy soon enough.
Nicole, who plays Lt. Abbie Mills on the show, fell head over heels with Fassbender after they met in 2011 on the film Shame. And she was said to be devastated when he dumped her. Bust Nicole is getting moral support and advice on the set of her hit show, which is loosely based on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Her handsome co-star Tom Mison is desperately trying to convince her to forget Michael and find a new guy.
Although Nicole still misses Fassbender, shes slowly but surely coming around shes thankful to have the series to keep her busy and good friends like Tom to keep her positive and grounded. Nicole is beautiful and will find the right guy soon enough.
She is doing very well in her career and certainly has other priorities. People are so pressed trying to reduce it at her dating history and put Fassbender on a pedestal... not cool.
But as gemini said, it means that she made now that her name is in the tabs
LeeLoo and I discussed this earlier. She's pretty busy right now. I don't think she's sitting around pining for him.
I've had this argument with many people. I understand what Michael has been trying to say and it's unfortunate that people just expect him to say Epps was evil. Period. It's nice and easy to just say he's an evil person but people are more complex than that. I haven't read the book but in the film he's portrayed as someone who is angry and confused and incapable of controlling his emotions. I could go on and on but I'll spare everyone.Well from what I've gathered after watching TYAS, on the Epps character he was ignorant and very cruel at best and had a twisted way of dealing with his slaves, especially Patsey. Now entered Solomon who, the more he fought Epps' authority, and this always in a dignified way (urgh Chiwetel made me cry!), the more it confused and enraged Epps of his own ignorance, and that was the turning point of being even more cruel i.e. wanting to destroy by any means whatever dignity Solomon had, break his free spirit and such. And yet the human basis I found interesting in the way Fassbender portrayed is you almost pity the guy for his own ignorance - and I insist on almost because at the end of the day I didn't pity him - he becomes paranoid in terms of the Patsey/Solomon relationship and it shows that "human" side of him, like Solomon is a rival, plotting against him, taking Patsey "away" from him, taking any authority he may represent on the plantation, and within his own confusion, self loathing and loathing it all, Epps totally lashes out at what he estimates being his property....
Sorry hope it makes sense what I tried to explain, because I know that Fassbender has been walking on thin ice with the Epps character as in trying to humanize and sympathize with him, and finding the right words to explain it
Haha I've had that argument as well, but I understood the various reactions, especially when he tried to explain the love Epps has for Patsey; also most haven't watched the film, thus it may make it difficult to understand for them as they look at the sole angle of slavery i.e. the ones suffering. Of course no one condones the horrors of slavery by any means, Fassbender only explained the complexity and different layers of Epps. He doesnt just play Epps as a mean guy, it's just easy to be mean, Epps he plays him as someone who is cruel yet ignorant and confused within himself and tries to right that by his very twisted ways, which gave Fassbender performance equally engaging and utterly repelling. So perhaps when the film gets a wider release, they shall see what he meant. It's not necessarily sympathize with Epps, it's about understanding the tragedy of human beings in their behaviour.
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