As her stop approaches, she stands up and grasps the pole in front of him to show that she’s wearing a wedding ring. Flattered by his attention, she smiles back and crosses her legs to reveal some stockinged thigh. In the subway on his way to work, he catches sight of a lovely young woman (Lucy Walters) sitting across from him. Eye contact is Brandon’s overture to sex. Brandon takes the briefest glance at a blonde at a bar, and, when she closes her eyes and asks what color they are, he automatically knows brown. (READ: Whatever happened to sexy movies?)įassbender’s Brandon, in Shame, is a handsome guy with an inherent gift for appraising and seducing women. Everybody wants him, and he seems focused enough to appear in three or four movies a year - an exciting prospect for his growing legion of admirers. Next he’ll star with Gina Carano and an all-star cast in Steven Soderbergh’s action film Haywire, and with Charlize Theron and Noomi Rapace in Prometheus, Ridley Scott’s sort-of-prequel to Alien. This quartet of impressive performances led him to a second-place finish (behind Brad Pitt) in Tuesday’s New York Film Critics Circle vote for Best Actor. This year Fassbender has been everywhere: the mordant Rochester in Jane Eyre and Carl Jung in A Dangerous Method as well as his roles in X-Men and Shame. His range was evident in two movies at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, where he could be seen investing the same intensity in a standard-issue epic hero - the British officer who goes undercover in Nazi-occupied France in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds - as in playing a flawed fellow like the roguish Irishman attracted to a 15-year-old girl in Andrea Arnold’s low-budget Fish Tank. But it was his punishing commitment to the Bobby Sands role that won him a slew of awards and the chance at a wide variety of projects, which he chose with a calculated daring. The 34-year-old actor, whose chiseled good looks suggest the young Christopher Plummer, made his first splash a decade ago in the HBO series Band of Brothers, and played the Spartan warrior Stelios in 300. (READ Jessica Winter on her encounter with Michael Fassbender) That makes Fassbender the ultimate X-Man. Shame is not pornographic, but this vividly clinical depiction of satyriasis is explicit enough to land the film an NC-17 rating, the American equivalent of the old, tawdry X. Director Steve McQueen, the visual artist whose first feature, Hunger, starred Fassbender as IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands, is just as remorseless in portraying the sex addiction of a Manhattan office worker. Michael Fassbender - the German-Irish Adonis of the art house, who also played the young Magneto in this summer’s X-Men: First Class - is on full-frontal display in the grinding sex drama Shame.
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