On Thursday night, Michael Fassbender (looking particularly well-rested) premiered Frank in Dublin. Then on Friday night, Michael, Domhnall Gleeson and director Lenny Abrahamson were in London premiering the film at “Sundance London.” Good God… Fassy has regained the hot, hasn’t he? All it took was a decent haircut, a few weeks of downtime in Ireland and lots of leather. Or shall we give Naomi Campbell credit for this? HA. I mean, I don’t doubt that Fassy and Naomi hooked up. But I just hesitate to say that they’re officially dating. But something is definitely different with Fassbender, because he is seriously giving me some old-school Fass-flutters. Sigh.

Anyway, there are some new interviews with Fassy about Frank, but none of them are incredibly interesting. It’s almost like Fassy has learned his lesson that he should try not to make news in interviews? Perhaps. When talking about wearing the gigantic plastic head for the film, Fassy said:

“Initially it was kind of claustrophobic in there. There’s not much one can see from inside the head – it’s very restricted in terms of what’s going on outside – but it was great fun. It was very liberating and I felt quite mischievous whenever I put the head on so it actually lent to the character. I just put the head on and the rest did itself. I wanted to really embody the character physically and there was a lot to do there. Sometimes with a head on that’s animated, it’s better to do smaller movements or no movements than be more expressive, funnily enough, and that just sort of happened through trial and error. But it was sort of freeing when you’re wearing a mask like that. It’s kind of fun.”

[From Sky News]

Blah. I still don’t know if I want to see it.

Incidentally, you know how I said a few weeks ago that Nicole Kidman might play Fassy’s love interest in Genius, where Fassy had signed on years ago to play Thomas Wolfe? Well, not so much. I mean, Nicole did sign on to the film, but Fassy dropped out and now Jude Law is in. Just as well – I tend to think Kidman is the icy Botox kiss of death for films these days. Bonus points for anyone who remembers the old rumors more than a decade ago about Jude Law and Nicole Kidman and how she might have played a role in breaking up his marriage.

Here’s a video of Fassy on the London red carpet. This is Fass-p0rn, the camera is so close.

And here’s the trailer for Frank:

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.