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Sundance is amazing
I met Maggie Gyllenhaal at Sundance, and she is pretty cool to chat with! We joked around the Soronprfbs pronounciation
Frank is hell of a trip of a film, basically you either react WTF or WTF good and/or bad
You basically enter a dysfunctional, bizarre world, between Fassbender papier-mâché head and some funky weird elements in the film, it's quite inventive, mind playful and too crazy quirky film to try to find some type of deep message. But clearly it has the basic element music nowadays and its struggles, not only to make it big but also the positive/negatie dynamic within a band. It's just funny weird, and I can tell it definitely wont be for everyone!
Talent runs in the Gleeson family, Domhnall has totally a gift for comedy, he is truly amazing, head to head with everyone in the film, from funny dynamic with Gyllenhaal to crazy one with Fassbender.
Seriously.... Soronprfbs
Off topic, another film I totally loved is Infinity Polar Bear with Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana, a beautiful story about interracial marriage and bipolar disorder.
From that description it totally reminds me of I Heart Huckabees which I loved (though I had to watch it twice to get it).
Sundance is amazing
Frank is hell of a trip of a film, basically you either react WTF or WTF good and/or bad
Talent runs in the Gleeson family, Domhnall has totally a gift for comedy, he is truly amazing, head to head with everyone in the film, from funny dynamic with Gyllenhaal to crazy one with Fassbender.
I can't wait to see it!
I love Domhnall.
I wonder what happened to that movie that Michael was supposed to do with his dad and all those lovely Irish actors?
New photo of him in Italy. Oh god, I wanna rub my hand through that beard
Old photo from Dec of him doing the Irish jig
That was posted today. So, he was never preparing/filming for Macbeth as reported?
I wonder why he didn't attend the Sundance festival at least.
I hope he didn't miss promoting Frank so that he could spend time with his lady friend.
That wouldn't be very professional in my opinion.
Does anyone feel the same?
I wonder why he didn't attend the Sundance festival at least.
I hope he didn't miss promoting Frank so that he could spend time with his lady friend.
That wouldn't be very professional in my opinion.
Does anyone feel the same?
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Unprofessional…huh? Actors don't have to go to every event. If he wants to take time off to spend with his girlfriend or just sit on his couch and scratch his balls he's allowed to do that. Again, I'm sure the producers of both Frank and TYAS know his plans.
Well I believe things are being blown out of proportion... Domhnall Gleeson didn't attend the Sundance festival either and he is one of the main characters as well, and he was filming Unbroken up until Xmas and was done; he was expected to attend the festival as well, up until last minute he cancelled, no explanation given from him unless I mistaken and if that's the case, please do correct me.
My point is people are triviliazing it very much because it's Fassbender they are more interested in, whereas the same could be said about Gleeson not being professional either for example if perhaps he was just hanging around or whatever. Anyway neither was missed per se, to be honest Maggie Gyllenhaal was great.
And the imdb board once again is all animated because his dating life is making the headlines lately and all theories are up. Not that they aren't allowed to express it, but to relate anything Fassbender does lately to the lady makes no sense, simply because not only actors/actresses cancel tv gigs, skip awards all the time, but Fassbender is one of the most dedicated actors to his craft. I mean dude has been filming back to back Frank, then a break to Argentina then Xmen, then the TYAS promotion started right after, then off to NZ filming, then right after fly to the Golden Globes etc... He does more than enough at being one of the most professional guys out there, thus he can take a few days off before starting filming anyway, so I don't see the big deal. But alas people want to see only what they want to see so...
She is really good in the film, she has good comedy timing. She is a good actress anyway (The Dark Knight doesn't count
) so the dynamic with everyone was very good.Domhnall was ill so couldn't attend.
Oops I meant the event when the photo was taken was old.
I just find it sad and disappointing. He got an Oscar nom and I found myself caught up in this clusterf*ck... talked about this attention seeking woman instead
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that's probably because I do not like his performance in 12YAS, I prefer him in Shame) but eh, I'm over it now. If he wants to spend his time in Italy, so be it. He slipped away and went to Hawaii and motorcycling around Europe to relax so he's probably resting for Macbeth. There was an article about Sundance and it sounded like he was booked to attend but must've dropped out; maybe it was for Mad Maddy, maybe not New photo in Rome here
HIS RED BEARD!!
Sounds like Mad Maddy was there 
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This. Say what you will about his love life but to call him unprofessional for skipping some events just seems silly. There were several actors missing from the recent award shows, including Christian Bale, but no one seems to notice that.
I'm not trying to *****y but why would him choosing to skip awards make you sad and disappointed? He hasn't slighted you. I understand people not liking Madalina for whatever reason but I don't understand why people are taking this all so personally.Domhnall was ill so couldn't attend.
Oops I meant the event when the photo was taken was old.
I just find it sad and disappointing. He got an Oscar nom and I found myself caught up in this clusterf*ck... talked about this attention seeking woman instead
Isn't he currently filming that Moses film?
No, him skipping awards doesn't make me sad and disappointed. I'm calling the situation, that I was sucked into, sad. He finally got an Oscar nom and I just commented on his personal life.
Or did she purposely plan it like that
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Yes, I feel the same. I've been on the Fassy train for awhile but have begun to notice a pattern like other actors Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Colin Farrell, Gerard Butler & Josh Brolin. He's starting to let his personal life affect his professional one. To think of his awards snub for Shame. And now that he & his film is being nominated, he's not showing up (Critics Choice & SAG):what: imo..I'm about to hop off especially if this type of behavior continues.
I loved JRM (Velvet Goldmine, Bend it like Beckham and Tudors
) and GB (300) but abandoned them after GB's whorish ways and all that sad stuff about JRM.. but I'm glad that their careers are revived. Still stayed with Colin (*drools* he's soo sexy
). Don't care about Brolin the wife beater.I'm fans of Christian Bale, James McAvoy and Cillian Murphy- all are private, married and settled with children so hopefully Michael can settle down soon (hopefully not with her
)Well I see that stupid Romanian gossip sites dragged back up the abuse allegations
Rough translation of an interview from Vanity Fair Italia (Half google and half other translation. If anyone wants the Italian that's typed up, just ask)
SLAVE OF LOVE?
New Madalina Ghenea sentimental coup that has brought home (in Milan) by none other than <<mister Shame>> Michael Fassbender (single turn the page to find it).
The couple has been pinched in the Fashion district (not the most suitable place to hide )
Madalina Ghenea , 25, in Milan with Michael Fassbender , 36, nominated for an Oscar as supporting actor for 12 years and now slaves in cinemas in The Counselor - The prosecutor.
(ALMOST) ALL HER EX
Madalina Ghenea has a prize list of ex-boyfriends in all respect. Still, it was not always important stories. The one with DiCaprio was just a flirt (apparently she had arrived on the set of The Great Gatsby) never confirmed. Brody has courted, but between the two there was a flash report. It lasted a year instead of the love with Butler: the couple had been caught for the first time in October 2012 by our photographers in Costa Azzarra.
Then I took WHIP
It was a revolutionary, he was a sex addict. Now is nominated for an Oscar in the role of a slave capable of torturing the woman he loves. Just filming the scene he realized something important about God himself. And on all of us.
IT IS HE WHO GREETS ME FIRST. Recognizes the notebook and the recorder that I have in my hand in the *****dor of the hotel in New York where I'm waiting. <<Hello>>, says in Italian <<five minutes and arrival>> he adds before closing with publicist and assistants in the suite. Unbelievable but true: in that group was even difficult to miss it. Already close to the legend, but still not too far from his debut on the set, Michael Fassbender remains suspended in that strange limbo of celebrity where you can be at the same time any of them and one of the most desirable men on the planet.
But perhaps there is also a clear desire to remain in this his almost anonymous, and you understand that when you sit down in front of him and begin to look at those eyes of blue ice that escape as his beloved Ferrari: we talk for a moment of the Cavallino, asks me, almost from a fan, the relationship between Fernando Alonso and Luca de Montezemolo. Him about his private life - see the flirtation of which we have written a page ago - wants to know as little as possible because it distracts from the performance, and in case he had forgotten I'll remember the publicist before the interview: we'll talk about movies and little else.
But it's worth it, because in his work as an actor Fassbender is truly unforgettable. Three scenes.
In the part of the Irish activist Bobby Sands in Hunger, in 2008, when he explains to the priest who visited him in jail because he is about to begin a hunger strike : that dialogue takes 17 minutes, equal to 28 pages of sample, and was shot in one take.
Then there is that scene of Shame, in 2011. No, not that that made him become even more attached to privacy after months of beats on its <<superdotazione >>, but the one in which bursts into tears after a night of sex from which draws only despair.
And finally, there is now Edwin Epps, who plays the slave owner in 12 years, the role that fresh after the Golden Globes brought the Irish actor (of German origin) to the next Oscar nomination as best supporting actor.
Our conversation begins, however, by another unforgettable scene of his latest film: short circuit, which can be read on his face when he is asked to whip the slave girl he fell in love.
What did you think at that moment?
<<A lot of things together. It's a little 'how to put his hands inside a barrel full of eels: they all seem entangled with each other, and my job is to pull them out and show them, one by one>>.
Do it for us.
<<I, slave, I do not have the intelligence to live this love. I do not understand, is not covered in my way of thinking, and yet it possesses in an absolute way. I feel trapped, and then I want to destroy this woman, or at least the love I feel for her. But each stroke of the whip would love her more. Behold, I thought this, and I expressed physically: the crescendo and breaks in the rhythm of the lashes follow the emotions of Epps>>.
Epps is the absolute evil: you are now, has specialised in characters time unwatchable.
<<I find that their human side is my job. We are all interconnected: candle the moment in which ache the public can recognize each other for a moment into one like him>>.
It is no coincidence that Hunger, Shame and 12 slaves are all shot by Steve McQueen?
<<No, because Steve is a genius, and it's great to bring out the best in me. I think 12 years is a slave his masterpiece, because it is built on complex characters that will eventually show us what we are willing to cross moral boundaries to survive>>.
McQueen compares in size to Brando, one of the few hard capable to show their fragility.
<<It's a huge compliment for me Brando is an absolute model, a giant: it is very important to know how to communicate strength and weakness, as he knew how to do>>
What are your other film legends?
<<Coppola, Lumet , Scorsese are filmmakers who have inspired me in 15 years when I began to think for the first time acting, and I made them all know my mother, Adele , a fan of the cinema late Sixties -early Seventies. From her I got a passion for the art of storytelling, and my father perfectionism>>.
It is very attached to her?
<<I feel so lucky to have grown up with them, they taught me to be a good person and the work ethic in the years when I gave them a hand in the family restaurant. Now I am retired and finally have a life: that means that it is exhausting work>>.
Sees them often?
<<We travel. With dad and my best friend are party to a round of a crazy bike ride, 5 thousand kilometers from Holland to Germany and Austria, to Dubrovnik, and then from there to Italy: Bari. Taormina, and again along the Amalfi coast up to Rome, Florence and the Lake of Garda. It's great to sit at the table and go to dinner at one o'clock at night, as do you Italians >>.
We think of the Oscar?
<<That is a trap in which are already fallen with Shame, even if I tried to keep low expectations before the missing nomination: the fact is that when all you speak of it is difficult not to think about it. Then I would prefer to focus on the job: I am going to shoot the first film with my production house, a western. And then I expect a monumental task: Macbeth>>.
I know that he is superstitious: he sees them signals of fate that lead to victory?
<<No, I do not see those either. I'm just happy and relaxed, for now>>.
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SLAVE OF LOVE?
New Madalina Ghenea sentimental coup that has brought home (in Milan) by none other than <<mister Shame>> Michael Fassbender (single turn the page to find it).
The couple has been pinched in the Fashion district (not the most suitable place to hide )
Madalina Ghenea , 25, in Milan with Michael Fassbender , 36, nominated for an Oscar as supporting actor for 12 years and now slaves in cinemas in The Counselor - The prosecutor.
(ALMOST) ALL HER EX
Madalina Ghenea has a prize list of ex-boyfriends in all respect. Still, it was not always important stories. The one with DiCaprio was just a flirt (apparently she had arrived on the set of The Great Gatsby) never confirmed. Brody has courted, but between the two there was a flash report. It lasted a year instead of the love with Butler: the couple had been caught for the first time in October 2012 by our photographers in Costa Azzarra.
Then I took WHIP
It was a revolutionary, he was a sex addict. Now is nominated for an Oscar in the role of a slave capable of torturing the woman he loves. Just filming the scene he realized something important about God himself. And on all of us.
IT IS HE WHO GREETS ME FIRST. Recognizes the notebook and the recorder that I have in my hand in the *****dor of the hotel in New York where I'm waiting. <<Hello>>, says in Italian <<five minutes and arrival>> he adds before closing with publicist and assistants in the suite. Unbelievable but true: in that group was even difficult to miss it. Already close to the legend, but still not too far from his debut on the set, Michael Fassbender remains suspended in that strange limbo of celebrity where you can be at the same time any of them and one of the most desirable men on the planet.
But perhaps there is also a clear desire to remain in this his almost anonymous, and you understand that when you sit down in front of him and begin to look at those eyes of blue ice that escape as his beloved Ferrari: we talk for a moment of the Cavallino, asks me, almost from a fan, the relationship between Fernando Alonso and Luca de Montezemolo. Him about his private life - see the flirtation of which we have written a page ago - wants to know as little as possible because it distracts from the performance, and in case he had forgotten I'll remember the publicist before the interview: we'll talk about movies and little else.
But it's worth it, because in his work as an actor Fassbender is truly unforgettable. Three scenes.
In the part of the Irish activist Bobby Sands in Hunger, in 2008, when he explains to the priest who visited him in jail because he is about to begin a hunger strike : that dialogue takes 17 minutes, equal to 28 pages of sample, and was shot in one take.
Then there is that scene of Shame, in 2011. No, not that that made him become even more attached to privacy after months of beats on its <<superdotazione >>, but the one in which bursts into tears after a night of sex from which draws only despair.
And finally, there is now Edwin Epps, who plays the slave owner in 12 years, the role that fresh after the Golden Globes brought the Irish actor (of German origin) to the next Oscar nomination as best supporting actor.
Our conversation begins, however, by another unforgettable scene of his latest film: short circuit, which can be read on his face when he is asked to whip the slave girl he fell in love.
What did you think at that moment?
<<A lot of things together. It's a little 'how to put his hands inside a barrel full of eels: they all seem entangled with each other, and my job is to pull them out and show them, one by one>>.
Do it for us.
<<I, slave, I do not have the intelligence to live this love. I do not understand, is not covered in my way of thinking, and yet it possesses in an absolute way. I feel trapped, and then I want to destroy this woman, or at least the love I feel for her. But each stroke of the whip would love her more. Behold, I thought this, and I expressed physically: the crescendo and breaks in the rhythm of the lashes follow the emotions of Epps>>.
Epps is the absolute evil: you are now, has specialised in characters time unwatchable.
<<I find that their human side is my job. We are all interconnected: candle the moment in which ache the public can recognize each other for a moment into one like him>>.
It is no coincidence that Hunger, Shame and 12 slaves are all shot by Steve McQueen?
<<No, because Steve is a genius, and it's great to bring out the best in me. I think 12 years is a slave his masterpiece, because it is built on complex characters that will eventually show us what we are willing to cross moral boundaries to survive>>.
McQueen compares in size to Brando, one of the few hard capable to show their fragility.
<<It's a huge compliment for me Brando is an absolute model, a giant: it is very important to know how to communicate strength and weakness, as he knew how to do>>
What are your other film legends?
<<Coppola, Lumet , Scorsese are filmmakers who have inspired me in 15 years when I began to think for the first time acting, and I made them all know my mother, Adele , a fan of the cinema late Sixties -early Seventies. From her I got a passion for the art of storytelling, and my father perfectionism>>.
It is very attached to her?
<<I feel so lucky to have grown up with them, they taught me to be a good person and the work ethic in the years when I gave them a hand in the family restaurant. Now I am retired and finally have a life: that means that it is exhausting work>>.
Sees them often?
<<We travel. With dad and my best friend are party to a round of a crazy bike ride, 5 thousand kilometers from Holland to Germany and Austria, to Dubrovnik, and then from there to Italy: Bari. Taormina, and again along the Amalfi coast up to Rome, Florence and the Lake of Garda. It's great to sit at the table and go to dinner at one o'clock at night, as do you Italians >>.
We think of the Oscar?
<<That is a trap in which are already fallen with Shame, even if I tried to keep low expectations before the missing nomination: the fact is that when all you speak of it is difficult not to think about it. Then I would prefer to focus on the job: I am going to shoot the first film with my production house, a western. And then I expect a monumental task: Macbeth>>.
I know that he is superstitious: he sees them signals of fate that lead to victory?
<<No, I do not see those either. I'm just happy and relaxed, for now>>.
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