Remember last week we showed you Michael Fassbender on the cover of February’s Interview Magazine but we had no idea what was inside the thing? Well, now we do. Today, your daily dose of Fassbender includes the rest of Sebastian Kim’s incendiary pics from the shoot he did for the mag. It also includes the interview with Fassbender’s Jonah Hex costar Josh Brolin who calls him “one of the film world’s new, idiosyncratic shape-shifters”.

Excerpts:

He is one of those actors who, through the subtlest adjustments in their physical appearance or demeanor, can appear younger, older, meeker, or more intimidating. And while Fassbender’s ability to morph, change, and disappear into characters may have been at least in part responsible for the early slow-burn of his career, it’s now one of the driving forces behind his newfound success.

Says his Shame (and Hunger) director Steve McQueen:

“Michael is a very masculine person. One could say he’s a man’s man. But what elevates him for me—and I think what draws audiences to him—is his understanding that when you play the character, that person is somehow related to the audience. A lot of movie stars are not human—they’re more than human in a way, so there’s a barrier that exists between them and the audience. But Michael has a fragility that allows him to have a relationship with an audience that has no barrier.”

A Dangerous Method costar Keira Knightley:

“You can forgive Michael anything. It doesn’t matter what kind of character he plays. He can always put an audience on his side, which makes his work fascinating because it continually makes you, the viewer, question the situation.”

Michael has George Clooney to thank for the fact that his penis is trending on Twitter which is poor compensation for stealing his Golden Globe. SAG overlooked him entirely, but I’m hoping BAFTA will put the world to rights since it was today announced that he’s earned a nomination (and we’ll know if there’s a chance Oscar will follow suit since the nominations come out next Tuesday January 24.) Enjoy the pics!

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