Michael Fassbender has recently admitted that he dozed off during his big TV debut on Holby City.
The star of Steve McQueen’s latest feature SHAME claims to have been playing the part of a patient getting his spleen removed when he slipped into slumber on the operating table during filming.
Fassbender was German born and Irish raised and made it to the big time when he played an IRA Hunger Striker in McQueen’s HUNGER. Despite sleeping through his first TV role Fassbender has made quite a career for himself.
He told Radio Times: ‘I remember it clearly because I fell asleep on the operating table. The trouble was they were filming the scene over and over again and focusing on all the doctors operating on me and I was lying there with my eyes closed and I just drifted off. I woke to hear someone whispering ‘He’s fallen asleep.’
Fassbender is now working with McQueen again in his film SHAME in which he will play a sex addict and star alongside Carey Mulligan. He admits being apprehensive about the explicit nature of some of the scenes of the film but seems eager to express his admiration towards director McQueen.
‘I knew that I wanted him to go to places that were ugly and sort of display that ugliness within the character but I had the confidence, from the way he was written, that an audience would feel for him. And if it had been a different director, I would have been a lot more wary because some of the scenes are pretty graphic, but I totally trusted Steve.’
SHAME is now in cinemas across the country and is well worth checking out, read our review here.
Source: Radio Times
