Michael Fassbender

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#346
http://osullivancolin.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/michael-fassbender-owes-me-a-favour/

I was working in the family dry cleaners one day during the summer holidays – must’ve been about twenty years ago – when my dad said to me that the boy of the Fassbenders was out the front, he wanted to talk to me about something. I put down what I was doing and went out to see Michael, a guy I had known from being involved in amateur drama groups, and who I often chatted to in Yer Man’s Pub (a place which features heavily in my novel Killarney Blues) over pints of Guinness.

Although my memory is naturally hazy after all this time, the transcript ran something like this:

Michael: Colin, I wonder can you help me out with something. (Cue Fassbender’s now-famous smile).

Me: What is it?

Michael: I’m putting together a play; we’re doing a version of Reservoir Dogs. One or two of the guys had to pull out. I’m desperate to make up the numbers.

Me: Aw man, really. Can’t you find someone else?

Michael: C’mon, it would really be a big help. Please…

Me: Hmm, well, I don’t really want to, but look, if it’s a small part then, OK, then I’ll do it.

Michael: Actually it’s quite a big part… Mr. Orange.

Me: Aw Man.

There were quite a few more “Aw Mans” from me but he finally persuaded me and I roped my close friend and cousin Sean into taking part too. The play was a success and all proceeds went to charity and we all had a great time. Fassbender showed even back then that he was deadly serious about his acting career and directed us expertly all in our roles. It was a lot of fun and a great experience.

A few years later I met him on a street in Killarney and he told me he had started drama school in London and was having a good time. My wife (then girlfriend) and I joked with him how someday he’d be super famous, and he laughed it all off saying he was just enjoying his studies, and that was all. The rest of course…

How proud we were to see him at the Oscars and what a shame he didn’t get to pick up the golden statue. He will have other bites at the cherry though, an exceptional talent like him, of that I think we can all rest assured.

Of course the bottom line of all this is that Michael Fassbender owes me a favour! I helped him out when he needed an extra man – he put me into rehearsals the very next day, and we were on stage five nights later! – so someday I’m gonna have to come knocking on his Hollywood door. I have here a little novel called Killarney Blues, would make a great film, I think you might even like to direct…well Michael, whadya say?

Let’s have a pint first of course, for old times’ sake.

Killarney Blues the novel (not yet the film) is available here: http://viewbook.at/killarneyblues
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#347
Michael is going to attend IFTAs (as expected)

http://www.independent.ie/entertain...r-part-in-irish-films-big-night-30096669.html

He is one of the hottest movie stars on the planet, but Michael Fassbender hasn't forgotten his roots.

Following a whirlwind Oscars campaign, where he narrowly missed out on a golden statuette, the Hollywood A-lister is jetting home for the annual Irish Film and Television Awards.

"It's nice to come home to the IFTAs and be among friends and family. It's pretty special," Fassbender said this weekend.

The actor will go head-to-head with Hollywood heartthrob Colin Farrell for the Best Supporting Actor Film award for his role in 12 Years a Slave. Farrell has been nominated for his role in Saving Mr Banks, along with Edward MacLiam for Run & Jump and Peter McDonald in The Stag.

The event, which has returned to its original home in the Burlington Hotel, will take place on Saturday, April 5, and organisers are keen to focus on atmosphere rather than the formality of the ceremony.
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#349
http://www.elystandard.co.uk/news/g...in_filming_in_ely_ahead_of_schedule_1_3453335

Wednesday, March 19, 2014
9:24 AM
movie fans welcomed the arrival of Hollywood stars Marion Cotillard and Michael Fassbender, who both star in the new adaptation of Macbeth.
The duo arrived and began shooting scenes in Ely Cathedral’s Lady Chapel on Tuesday, two days earlier than had been expected.
Fassbender and Cotillard were both spotted in full costume making their way from trailers located on Cathedral Green to an entrance at the side of the cathedral shortly after 3pm.
Fassbender, who will play the lead role as Macbeth, was sporting white robes, thick facial hair and with a series of false scars over his face.
Cotillard, meanwhile, is set to play Lady Macbeth and was wearing a black dress immaculately plated black hair, styled in a bun.
Justin Kurzel, the director, has chosen to shoot at the cathedral just months after scenes from Hollywood blockbuster ‘Jupiter Ascending’ were filmed on the site.
Oscar winning film The King’s Speech and The Other Boleyn Girl have also featured scenes shot in Ely. Macbeth is set for release in 2015.
 
#350
http://www.ely-news.co.uk/News/SLID...sed-for-filming-of-Macbeth-20140321141831.htm

Filming for Macbeth is ongoing at Ely Cathedral - although none of the Hollywood stars have yet been spotted.

Banquet scenes for the hugely-anticipated new adaptation of the William Shakespeare tragedy are being shot inside the cathedral’s Lady Chapel.

Filming started on Thursday and according to the Ely Cathedral website, the Lady Chapel will be closed to visitors until Monday.

Today (Friday), the entire cathedral is closed during the afternoon and tomorrow (Saturday), the cathedral will be shut from 12pm onwards.

On Sunday, the cathedral, which has now been used as a major movie location seven times, will be open to the public, although the Lady Chapel will remain closed.

As previously reported, the film stars Hollywood actor Michael Fassbender and actress Marion Cotillard, although neither are believed to have been seen entering or leaving the cathedral.
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I wonder if they wrap soon. Even with his time off they have to be close to 7 or 8 weeks of shooting.
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Probably. Period pieces with location shooting typically take at least two months to shoot. I think both Jane Eyre and A Dangerous Method had similar schedules.


In other news, Fox Studios set a release date for an untitled Ridley Scott film in 2016, and a lot of people think it's the sequel to Prometheus. I'm sure MF isn't too thrilled that's looking like a "go".
 
#355
LOLOLOL.

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