Michael Fassbender covers the new “collector’s edition” of Elle UK. The photoshoot was done by David Bailey, a photographer I respect, but for the love of God, these photos are terrible. The headshot is a Photoshop (or lighting?) disaster and the torso pic is blah. How f—king difficult is it to take a good photo of Fassbender? I’ll admit that he isn’t my current Dong Of Choice (I’m still smarting from his awful GQ interview), but I still find him attractive and, quite honestly, he’s one of the most photogenic men around. It really isn’t that hard to get him to look better than this. Here are some highlights from the interview:
Fassy on his good looks: “I’ve never really thought of myself as good looking. I think of myself as, you know, alright.”
On the attention he gets from ladies: “I’m not oblivious to it. It’s not like I think I’ve become more charming or good-looking overnight. But, no, I haven’t lost any respect [for women]. I’m an alright judge of character, so you can figure these things out.”
He didn’t always look like this: “I used to have bad acne as a teenager, so all of this is a bonus now, the fact that I don’t have pimples any more. And my hair was also, you know, unfortunate. I had really long hair. I mean, I tied it back most of the time, but I had all these frizzy bits coming off the top.”
Filming a scene in 12 Years a Slave where he had to rape Patsey: It was too much and he “keeled over” in front of the film crew. “That was a kind of strange one. I just blacked out and came to sort of in the middle of the scene. That has never happened to me. You are doing things that are quite challenging. I guess mentally and physically. The good thing is it’s over in a short period of time, so it’s a very intense focus for a concentrated amount of time. So you think to yourself, ‘I just have to be crazy for another couple of weeks’.”
On Pharrell Williams: “The coolest man on the planet, for sure.”
Costars love him: Javier Bardem called him an ‘Acting beast’ and X-Men co-star James McAvoy told us: ‘There’s something quite old-school about Michael. I love him dearly.’
[From Elle UK, The Mail, Express]
No, Michael. I will not like you any more if you talk about zits and fuzzy hair. I refuse to fall for you again! I will not appreciate you more if you speak of your awkward youth or your ponytail. NEVER AGAIN. Although… Javier referring to Michael as an “acting beast” did make me stop and think about the beast within. NO. I must stop this. I’m over him. Right? Right. Damn it, is it even possible for me to quit the Fassbender?
Photos courtesy of ELLE UK.
” I’ll admit that he isn’t my current Dong Of Choice.”
Oh, honey…I knew that was Cumberbatch long before you admitted it. Dare I say it, even before you’ve realized that yourself.
I think the pics are nice. He’s one of the most handsome men in Hollywood, that’s for sure.
He’s good looking but I think a lot of his appeal is his talent and charisma. I saw “12 Years a Slave” last weekend and he was phenomenal (as was the lead actor in the movie Chiwetol Ejiofor). Not an easy film to watch but an excellent one. Fassbender, Chiwetol Ejiofor and the movie itself will all be nominated for Academy Awards. Go see it!
“I’ve never thought of myself as good looking” I can kinda see what he means, his appeal is beyond how he looks, there’s something about him *goes off to watch that infamous shameless clip* 😉
I get what he means too. I think we all have certain things about ourselves that we don’t like–that other people love. We always nitpick at certain features that we have. I don’t think that I’m all that good looking most days, but then again, I look just like my mom (who I think is beautiful). Like I think he is actually a fairly averagely handsome guy–but he’s an amazing actor, has a lot of charisma–which makes him sexier to me.
I especially get it because he’s a redhead. Remember that interview with Jessica Chastain last year–she was talking about how people used to make fun of her for her hair. Anne of Green Gables? It seems really silly, but Michael is 36 years old–I can see getting teased for your hair–don’t know why, but it happens. My sperm donor is irish, and if I could change anything about myself, it’d be to have red hair (I have the coloring for it too!).
Fassbender isn’t a real ginger though. He sprouts a ginger beard which wouldn’t have been an issue until his late teens/early twenties so I don’t see how he would be bullied/ridiculed like people with actual red hair such as Jessica Chastain.
Besides, it’s a common Celtic thing to have brown hair and a ginger beard. I’m Irish and hair colouring is an interesting thing overall. I was born a natural blond and over time, my hair darkened to the point where it is now almost black. I have dark brown hair on my head. My body hair (apologies if this is TMI) is a combination of dark brown, medium brown with a reddish tint and blond (I should point out that it’s the dark brown hair that’s most prominent…it’s not like I’m sporting a weird evenly spaced tricolour).
My facial hair is the strangest though. I am quite sallow skinned. In the two weeks of Summer we get in Ireland, if I go out in the sun, I tan very easily and go very brown. If I grow facial hair at this time, my beard grows out dark brown like my hair. As I begin to lose my brown colouring, my beard colouring becomes lighter and lighter and generally in the Winter when I don’t get much sun, my beard comes out a complete fiery red.
Anyway, I don’t know why I went into a big tirade about my hair colouring but yeah, Fassbender isn’t a proper ginger. Like me and many other Irish men, he develops a red beard even if he’s not a redhead himself.
It’s entirely possible to be over him – I predict it will definitely happen for you, Kaiser, if he takes any more horrible photos. I concur. They are AWFUL.
ETA: Sigh. All my comments are going into moderation and I don’t know why, even though I have asked. The prime draw for this site for me is the immediacy of the conversation between commenters. Without that, it’s no fun. So I’m taking an indefinite sabbatical. A bientot, chaps.
Nooooooooooooooooooo…don’t leave me.
She left me… 😥
Sixer, come back! I will share the Asgardians with you IMMEDIATELY!!!!
Noooooooo! Don’t go! Who will make fun of me? I’ll share Bunny with you! Please stay! (Or, failing that, let’s swap twitter addys so we can stay in touch?)
what? noo, your comments are always so entertaining.
Please stay.
Sixer,
I really hope you’ll change your mind & stay.
I’ve never really thought of you as good looking either, Michael. So we’re on the same page!
I do think he’s quite charming though 😉
LOL! I was going to make a very similar statement. He’s is NOT good looking. He has a charm about him, but I wouldn’t go as far as saying that he is physically attractive. Also, whenever I see him in an interview, I cringe and think of Tina Fey’s “Girls” sketch on SNL where her fictional character says to one of the Girls, “Don’t speak. If you speak, they’ll know you’re simple…”
Oh, please. I’ll allow that he might have been an awkward teenager, but he used to have a role as the Hot Guy on an embarrassing teeny supernatural show. It’s not like his hotness should be news to him.
I have never thought of him as good looking either.
I thought he was attractive in Eden Lake, well at least in the bit before everything goes bad, and gorgeous in Inglorious Basterds (though the lighting helped him there). But since then he’s mostly just looked really, really rough. Great actor though.
He really isn’t good looking. I haven’t watched anything he is in, not even an interview. My opinion is purely based on the physical.
I wonder how awkward looking he was as a teen… b/c he’s ridiculously good looking now.
He’s not my favorite (I’m holding out for Cumberbatch), but I’d throw him some.
Ah… the old cliché of actors being self-deprecating…
Say when Benedict Cumberbatch says he never thought himself as sexy, well one can believe it, no offense! 😀
Not saying that no one has insecurities looks wise, we all do or should I say most, but it’s not like Fassbender is being lucky with women only now, his celeb status has contributed into increasing his options. dude was quite active with the ladies back then.
“I’ve never really thought of myself as good looking.” – sheesh – I don’t get the fascination with him. He is way too thin – spindly legs and completely self absorbed with his looks.
The quintessential self absorbed actor.
I think he is attractive but the camera (film) loves him I can stare at his face on the big screen all day. Those eyes ! I think he’s sexy too. I love Cumberbatch but wouldn’t consider him sexy.
He’s very sexy and masculine. Not necessarily classic pretty boy good looking.
He’s attractive, but not good looking. And yes, these pics are not very good.
B*** please…
Ummm yea in these pic he looks bad. His looks are depreciating as time passes by.
Whereas look at McAvoy…I am so attracted to him in the new X-men trailer…yes the beard does it for me 😀
My heart is still for Cumberbatch though.
Good cause neither have I.
lolol That’s exactky what I was thinking: Never thought you were handsome either. He’s really quite average and when you see his teeth he goes below average.
Michael,u sexy man. Yes he is attractive and very talented,i could stare at him all day. The screen loves him.
That’s good. Because you are definitely not. Charismatic, maybe. Good looking? No.
I think he’s someone who is more attractive in motion than in photos.
All you Cumby fanatics–Ewww! I’ll take Fassbender ANYTIME over Cumby!!!
i desperately want to see these long hair and zit pictures!
I liked most of the GQ Interview, but Mr. Fassbender needs to SHUT UP! Enough with the interviews, is he going to tell us everything about him? If he’s trying to become a household name do it through the big screen(acting). Stop with all these interviews, seems he will answer any question thrown at him and he will eventually put his foot deep in his mouth. And stop giving up all the prep/details about you charaters, keep some things to yourself, you go to indepth about your acting prep. He doesn’t know when to cut himself off during interviews.
Advise: Keep your personal life personal, enough talk about women.
I feel sort of the opposite. I feel he’s gotten much more guarded in his interviews and has gotten good at deflecting personal questions. It’s understandable, the more famous an actor gets the more he guards his private life. It’s self-preservation and protection. I get it. That’s why there’s the go-karts, the race track, etc. Keep it light and fun and not reveal anything too deep or personal. He was pretty open about his relationship with Nicole in his prior GQ interview but he said nada about her, their break-up, or his current relationship status this time. I doubt he’ll ever be as open as he used to be. It’s kind of sad, but necessary I suppose.
Fassbender is SO.damn. delicious! He has grown on me, for sure. His acting chops and his love for women of all color have made an impression on me over the years. He is MANLY, and his huge (not overly-bleached) smile and blue eyes and long, dark eyelashes and ‘manly-proportions’ have me dizzy! I did not think anyone would cure me of Ryan Gosling, and this man HAS. Thank you, Michael…you are a god. Oh, and you had me drooling within the first 2 minutes of watching The Counselor!
Michael is one of the hottest men alive. I love seeing new pictures of him. It’s endearing to hear him speak about his awkward youth. He really does seem very humble about his success, and like he’s enjoying every minute of it. I know you’re kind of over him Kaiser, but I hope you’ll continue to cover him. Reading about him is one of the many reasons I love this site.
Breaking Cumby news:
http://www.screendaily.com/news/production/benedict-cumberbatch-launches-production-company/5063002.article
You’ll like this quote:
Asked if Everest was a likely future project for him, Cumberbatch laughed: “I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that.”
On the other hand, launching business projects with your personal trainer reeks a bit of clueless Gwynethness.
This man…. My panties…. This man.
I think he’s good looking, hot, sexy, gorgeous…etc.