More on X-Men, Fassbender
Picking up where I left off in my last post as James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender continue their epic love.
Just want to put all the links in one spot so I can refer back in the future, and share if anyone else is interested ;)
Cinemax Final Cut interview with the cast
At around 2:26, they start talking about the scene in the strip club where they found Angel... and how they snuck into the wardrobe to do a bit cross-dressing.James: You loved it!
Michael: Found a whole new side to my personality *laughs and shows his toothy grin*
James: *unintelligible* ...how comfortable you were.
Michael: That's just cos you found me attractive, James.
James: I've asked you not to reveal that about me on camera. Please put it on the DVD actually.
I love how they're always pretty much in their own world, even when the other cast members are around :D
X-Men: First Class Cast Interviews (G4tv)
The interviewer describes the movie as a "classic bromance" and asks them to explain this relationship. She definitely describes the movie well.
Interviewer: This is the classic boy meets boy with mutant powers, boy teams up with boy to fight evil, boy loses boy because of mutant vs human agenda ... classic bromance.
James: It's really, isn't it?
Interviewer: Can you explain this relationship to us?
James: Actually, no I suppose I'm kind of uncomfortable talking about it because it’s so true off-screen as well.
Michael: Yeah. *starts singing* Every time we touch the honesty’s too much…
James McAvoy is a classy man
In a fab montage, the pair [McAvoy & Fassbender] go on a recruiting drive, in which they perch on a strip-club bed.
"That scene got exceptionally silly at one point," says McAvoy. "I don't know if I'm even allowed to tell you what originally happened. But it got pretty f---in' kinky. I'm not joking."
Was the dashing duo's bromance, uh, consummated?
"Unfortunately no. But there was a little bit of cross-dressing going on. That's all you need to know."
(For the record, McAvoy would have preferred it if Xavier and Magneto stayed together. Like, really together. "It is a little bit of a mini-tragedy that him and Magneto don't, you know, have sex and become married and become best friends.")
BlackTree TV interview [x]
Interviewer: What power would it be? What would you do? How would you bring it?
James: I’d like to be able to make people fall in love.
Michael: Like cupid.
~*~
Michael: I think that’s a lot more socially conscious than what I would choose. I’d be really selfish. I’d like to fly, I mean that should be a lot of fun really. I’d imagine.
James: If I made you fall in love with me though you could just fly me anywhere I wanted.
Michael: That’s true. Exactly.
Interviewer: Then you two could combine it. The power of people falling in love and the power of flight and then you could use it quite often.
James: And then we could just spray love everywhere.
Michael and James: *in unison* Love all over the universe!
LOL, got to love how consistent they are with their answers as this was mentioned briefly in another interview as well.
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In related X-Men fangirling, I've also been looking up Michael Fassbender stuff and I'm so taken by his voice. These are old but I'll put them here because they're pretty good.
T Screen Test Films: Michael Fassbender (October 2009)
Movies which influenced him (the 70s) and how he had to stop watching television when he was on his diet for Hunger because there's just so much food which appears during commercials. The best part is towards the end, when he speaks about this thing he has for sound effects and shows how good he is at imitating sounds.
Lynn Hirschberg's Screen Tests: Michael Fassbender (March 2011)
Trying to be Superman when he was young, movies that scared him as a kid & his thoughts on confession.
Interview with Anne Thompson (December 2009)
Saving the best for last. This one is long and split over five parts but worth the time to watch because Anne Thompson is a great interviewer/journalist and really manages to get a lot of information from him. [The first part about Fish Tank is rather spoilery so skip if you intend to watch the film.]
A lot to summarise here as he gives long, thoughtful answers to the questions asked on various subjects. Random snippets include the fact that he was almost left out of Inglourious Basterds entirely, he doesn't speak fluent German ("it's a bit rusty") despite what imdb says but the thing that struck me the most here was the way he talks about the people he worked/works with -- it's put hard to put down precisely -- but he sounds so sincere and earnest about it and not just paying lip-service.
I was listening to this while I was at work and was like internally ajakjklsjjslfjasfj-ing over his voice.
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And uh to change the topic again, in case you haven't seen this video of Bradley Cooper speaking French, here it is! I first saw it on tumblr, then it was picked up on various entertainment sites -- but I think the best headline was from Entertainment Weekly: "Bradley Cooper speaks French. The Internet swoons."
Because I totally did.
Just want to put all the links in one spot so I can refer back in the future, and share if anyone else is interested ;)
At around 2:26, they start talking about the scene in the strip club where they found Angel... and how they snuck into the wardrobe to do a bit cross-dressing.James: You loved it!
Michael: Found a whole new side to my personality *laughs and shows his toothy grin*
James: *unintelligible* ...how comfortable you were.
Michael: That's just cos you found me attractive, James.
James: I've asked you not to reveal that about me on camera. Please put it on the DVD actually.
I love how they're always pretty much in their own world, even when the other cast members are around :D
The interviewer describes the movie as a "classic bromance" and asks them to explain this relationship. She definitely describes the movie well.
Interviewer: This is the classic boy meets boy with mutant powers, boy teams up with boy to fight evil, boy loses boy because of mutant vs human agenda ... classic bromance.
James: It's really, isn't it?
Interviewer: Can you explain this relationship to us?
James: Actually, no I suppose I'm kind of uncomfortable talking about it because it’s so true off-screen as well.
Michael: Yeah. *starts singing* Every time we touch the honesty’s too much…
In a fab montage, the pair [McAvoy & Fassbender] go on a recruiting drive, in which they perch on a strip-club bed.
"That scene got exceptionally silly at one point," says McAvoy. "I don't know if I'm even allowed to tell you what originally happened. But it got pretty f---in' kinky. I'm not joking."
Was the dashing duo's bromance, uh, consummated?
"Unfortunately no. But there was a little bit of cross-dressing going on. That's all you need to know."
(For the record, McAvoy would have preferred it if Xavier and Magneto stayed together. Like, really together. "It is a little bit of a mini-tragedy that him and Magneto don't, you know, have sex and become married and become best friends.")
Interviewer: What power would it be? What would you do? How would you bring it?
James: I’d like to be able to make people fall in love.
Michael: Like cupid.
~*~
Michael: I think that’s a lot more socially conscious than what I would choose. I’d be really selfish. I’d like to fly, I mean that should be a lot of fun really. I’d imagine.
James: If I made you fall in love with me though you could just fly me anywhere I wanted.
Michael: That’s true. Exactly.
Interviewer: Then you two could combine it. The power of people falling in love and the power of flight and then you could use it quite often.
James: And then we could just spray love everywhere.
Michael and James: *in unison* Love all over the universe!
LOL, got to love how consistent they are with their answers as this was mentioned briefly in another interview as well.
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In related X-Men fangirling, I've also been looking up Michael Fassbender stuff and I'm so taken by his voice. These are old but I'll put them here because they're pretty good.
Movies which influenced him (the 70s) and how he had to stop watching television when he was on his diet for Hunger because there's just so much food which appears during commercials. The best part is towards the end, when he speaks about this thing he has for sound effects and shows how good he is at imitating sounds.
Trying to be Superman when he was young, movies that scared him as a kid & his thoughts on confession.
Saving the best for last. This one is long and split over five parts but worth the time to watch because Anne Thompson is a great interviewer/journalist and really manages to get a lot of information from him. [The first part about Fish Tank is rather spoilery so skip if you intend to watch the film.]
A lot to summarise here as he gives long, thoughtful answers to the questions asked on various subjects. Random snippets include the fact that he was almost left out of Inglourious Basterds entirely, he doesn't speak fluent German ("it's a bit rusty") despite what imdb says but the thing that struck me the most here was the way he talks about the people he worked/works with -- it's put hard to put down precisely -- but he sounds so sincere and earnest about it and not just paying lip-service.
I was listening to this while I was at work and was like internally ajakjklsjjslfjasfj-ing over his voice.
*
And uh to change the topic again, in case you haven't seen this video of Bradley Cooper speaking French, here it is! I first saw it on tumblr, then it was picked up on various entertainment sites -- but I think the best headline was from Entertainment Weekly: "Bradley Cooper speaks French. The Internet swoons."
Because I totally did.