Michael Fassbender: LA is too soft
Michael Fassbender says Los Angeles “makes you soft”.
The actor was born in Germany, raised in Ireland and has lived in England for the past 15 years. Michael has no desire to set up home in Los Angeles after falling in love with life in London.
“I’ve met some cool people out there who say I haven’t found the right LA, but I just prefer here,” he told the latest UK edition of Elle. “I think LA makes you soft - people never get anything done. It’s a city where people give out their business cards. I think London has a sense of humour. I like the parks, I like the mentality here. I like walking. I like the immediacy of the city.”
The 35-year-old hunk is one of the biggest names in Hollywood after appearing in movies such as Shame, Inglourious Basterds, A Dangerous Method and X-Men: First Class.
Despite his successful career, Michael still enjoys anonymity.
He is relieved that he can continue going out in public without being mobbed by fans and insists he never craved fame.
“I don’t really get noticed. That part hasn’t really changed. I thought it would in the last few months, but no,” he explained.
“I’m not bothered about being famous. That was never the game plan. I wanted to be good – that was the goal.”
via film-news.co.uk
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Excerpts from The Huffington Post
Michael Fassbender - a self-described “sociable person” On the eve of his face becoming even more famous with a lead role in Ridley Scott’s forthcoming sci-fi blockbuster Prometheus, Fassbender tells Esquire magazine about enjoying a good drink, dancing, AC/DC being a secret hangover cure, being seduced by the trapping of fame and his next challenge as a scriptwriter. Here are some titbits… On his love of socialising: “I like to go out. I wouldn’t say I don’t enjoy a drink. As I say, I’m a sociable person.” On his love of dancing: “I like to dance. Ha! You know, I enjoy myself when I go out. When we were in Berlin and I went out with my parents, we were out till three in the morning, we were all out dancing.” On his secret hangover cure: “I still listen to Slayer, man! I just put them on the other day, still listen to Metallica. AC/DC brilliant…If you’re a little bit hungover, put on AC/DC, it’s like there’s no room for [the hangover] any more, the anxiety’s all gone.” On now having to consider his behaviour since becoming famous: “The thing is I don’t like to filter my behaviour, but I have a feeling that might be the case now…I don’t want to be in the newspapers. I just want to keep what I do on screen and that’s it.” On being seduced by the trappings of fame: “It would be wrong of me to say that I don’t get seduced by certain things. That things don’t become tempting.” On his temptations: “Well, you know, sort of, money! How much money does one need? Let’s start with that, that’s a pretty good one. Greed, things like that. Vanity, believing the hype. You have to keep an eye on those things.” On keeping grounded: “There’s another side of me that’s very simple. I keep my lifestyle pretty simple and my possessions are pretty simple.” On his self-imposed hiatus: “You have to see it clearly as looking after yourself. There is the danger of burning out here and getting lost and just becoming uninterested.” On his next challenge as a scriptwriter: “The next thing is to develop, make your own stories with writers, gather a pool of creative people and develop stuff. So it’s not the fact that I’m waiting for someone else to hire me or I’m waiting for a really good script to arrive, I’m actually trying to make that script.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3ahhaX8ZK1qlssazo1_250.png)
Excerpts from The Huffington Post
Michael Fassbender - a self-described “sociable person”
On the eve of his face becoming even more famous with a lead role in Ridley Scott’s forthcoming sci-fi blockbuster Prometheus, Fassbender tells Esquire magazine about enjoying a good drink, dancing, AC/DC being a secret hangover cure, being seduced by the trapping of fame and his next challenge as a scriptwriter. Here are some titbits…
On his love of socialising:
“I like to go out. I wouldn’t say I don’t enjoy a drink. As I say, I’m a sociable person.”
On his love of dancing:
“I like to dance. Ha! You know, I enjoy myself when I go out. When we were in Berlin and I went out with my parents, we were out till three in the morning, we were all out dancing.”
On his secret hangover cure:
“I still listen to Slayer, man! I just put them on the other day, still listen to Metallica. AC/DC brilliant…If you’re a little bit hungover, put on AC/DC, it’s like there’s no room for [the hangover] any more, the anxiety’s all gone.”
On now having to consider his behaviour since becoming famous:
“The thing is I don’t like to filter my behaviour, but I have a feeling that might be the case now…I don’t want to be in the newspapers. I just want to keep what I do on screen and that’s it.”
On being seduced by the trappings of fame:
“It would be wrong of me to say that I don’t get seduced by certain things. That things don’t become tempting.”
On his temptations:
“Well, you know, sort of, money! How much money does one need? Let’s start with that, that’s a pretty good one. Greed, things like that. Vanity, believing the hype. You have to keep an eye on those things.”
On keeping grounded:
“There’s another side of me that’s very simple. I keep my lifestyle pretty simple and my possessions are pretty simple.”
On his self-imposed hiatus:
“You have to see it clearly as looking after yourself. There is the danger of burning out here and getting lost and just becoming uninterested.”
On his next challenge as a scriptwriter:
“The next thing is to develop, make your own stories with writers, gather a pool of creative people and develop stuff. So it’s not the fact that I’m waiting for someone else to hire me or I’m waiting for a really good script to arrive, I’m actually trying to make that script.”
