Macbeth with Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard – STERN

• His new film is the bulky, visually ravishing Shakespeare adaptation “Macbeth” . Michael Fassbender plays the title role of the Scottish war hero who for Tyannen mutated, Marion Cotillard his manipulative wife.

• Michael was on April 2, 1977 in Heidelberg as the son of a German father (Josef) and an Irish mother ( Adele) born. When he was two years old, the family moved into the southwest Irish Killarney over where his parents the West End House restaurant operated.

• He was an altar boy in the Catholic Church of Killarney.
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• At the age of 18 years he staged in his hometown, a stage version of Quentin Tarantino’s film debut “Reservoir Dogs” and played it well Mr. Pink, one of the gangsters. “This was done out of sheer naiveté, unbridled enthusiasm and was a useful lesson,” he recalls. “I had absolutely no idea what I was getting there and that you could see on the stage.” In 2008, he played in Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” .

• He studied drama in North London’s Drama Centre but did not graduate because he a role in the later acclaimed War series “Band of Brothers” took over.

• One of his classmates was Tom Hardy.

• In 2003, he played the main role in the video of the song “Blind Pilots” of British rock group The Cooper Temple Clause. Therein a stag running literally animals out of hand.

• A year later, he demonstrated his perseverance in the award-winning Guinness commercial “The Quarrel”.

• In 2007, he met the British artist Steve McQueen know and took over the lead role in his directorial debut, “Hunger” . Fassbender brilliant performance as IRA activist Bobby Sands, who died in 1981, after a six-week hunger and washing strike, meant his breakthrough

• Fassbender also starred in the two following films of Steve McQueen with. As sex addict in “Shame” (2011) and as a sadistic plantation owner in “12 Years a Slave”. For the latter he received a Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

• He is fluent in German, how to listen to the original version of “Inglourious Basterds”.

• He is staying still in his modest apartment in East London Hackney, which he had obtained as a penniless drama aspirant 1996th A journalist reported after a visit of countless boxes, clothes Bergen and flaking paint on the ceiling, which pointed to a massive water damage. Fassbender commented on his housing situation once laconically: “. My mother would not be very happy about it”

• He says:
“I guess the German in me all want to have under control, and the Irishman in me wants to devastate everything. ”

• say :
“At the moment there are out there no one who could be compared with Michael And in my opinion since Marlon Brando also previously not He.. has a fragility and femininity, while also a masculinity that he can bring to use each. It has no respect for him, but is a part of him. He draws you in. And that’s exactly what you think of an actor want. The fact that the audience sees in and recognize themselves. ” (Director Steve McQueen)

• Michael Fassbender for beginners :

“Band of Brothers” (2001)
“Hunger” (2008)
“Fish Tank” (2009)
“Inglourious Basterds” (2009)
“X-Men: First Class” (2011)
“Shame” (2011)
> “12 Years a Slave” (2013)