Michael Fassbender is a German-Irish actor who blew onto the scenes in 2008 for his no-holds-barred performance as Irish republican hunger striker Bobby Sands in the art film Hunger. The director Steve McQueen sucked up most of the buzz winning critics awards and the Golden Camera from Cannes - but Fassbender got a lot of work (and a lot of respect) after the fact. You may remember him from Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (the insider Archie Hicox from the tavern scene) and as Burke in the bomb Jonah Hex.
(Fassbender with Oscar-nominee Keira Knightley in A Dangerous Method)
Fassbender makes good on the Hunger promise in 2011 showing up in the classic role of Rochester in Focus Features Oscar hopeful Jane Eyre and as psychoanalysis Carl Jung in legendary weirdo director David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method opposite Oscar-nominees Viggo Mortensen (who’s playing Sigmund Freud!) and Keira Knightley (as the woman who comes between them.)
Cronenberg is known for causing Oscar buzz - Mortensen received a well-earned 2007 Best Actor nomination for Eastern Promises and William Hurt was a surprise nominee for his minor work in the excellent A History of Violence in 2005. Keep an eye out for all three of the main cast of A Dangerous Method (Fassbender, Knightley, and Mortensen) as this looks like it will be a very interesting movie. C'mon, it's Jung vs. Freud! Get excited!
The bad news is that the film is being produced by Recorded Picture Company, a small British company that hasn't had Oscar gold since 1987's The Last Emperor. Is this the year they return?
Check out Viggo Mortensen who is nearly unrecognizable as Freud!
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