The Hottest Guy in Hollywood

The hottest guy in Hollywood, (everything revolts to translate the following part of the headline, because he never said so in this interview) Michael Fassbender, "Personally I find pornography is not so bad"

26.02.2012 Von DANIEL SCHIEFERDECKER

Yes, he actually looks incredibly good, this Michael Fassbender. But the man who is being labelled as "Hollywood's hottest import" - he is Irish with German roots - looks a little tired around the blue eyes. "It got late," he says. And lets follow a grin.

Bild am Sonntag: Where does your apparent exhaustion come from, Mr. Fassbender?

Michael Fassbender: Yesterday I was at a premiere party and danced extensively.

BamS: Some people believe men should not dance because it is unmanly.

MF: That can only come from the guys that have no sense of rhythm and do not know exactly what effect good dancers have on the females. The popular saying, a good dancer is also good in bed, isn't for nothing.

BamS: Are you a good dancer?

MF: You bet.

BamS: In your new film "Shame" you play a sex addict. What is more uncomfortable: to display sex in front of a running camera or to talk about it before a running tape recorder?

MF: I do not need to shed my clothes constantly in front of other people, so I prefer to talk about it. But for "Shame" the sex scenes were necessary because they reveal an important aspect of my film character Brandon. Brandon has no problem with routinely physicalness, but with intimacy. He hates himself. This is also apparent in the sex scenes.

BamS: The sex scenes in the film are acted. If director Steve McQueen had asked you for the sake of authenticity, really to sleep with the actors: Would you have done it?

MF: The trick is to create the perfect illusion. To really do it, I would not only have been extremely uncomfortable, but also artistically unsatisfying.

BamS: Would you say that the risk of sex addiction increases with the amount of possibilities?

MF: I think so. But that also depends on many other factors, such as your self-esteem. Sex addiction has nothing to do with the enjoyable savouring of pleasure and passion, but is an escape: from life, from love and from oneself. Steve McQueen has brought it to the point when he said, sex addiction has as much to do with lust as alcoholism with thirst.

BamS: The film is a parable about the destruction of lust by the permanent availability of sex. Do you share the view that the constant availability of sex diminishes its value?

MF: I do not think that with this the honest exchange of intimacies with your beloved partner looses its importance. But the over-sexualisation of the society makes us numb. If I wanted to see pornography when I was young, I had to ask for it with a red face in a sex shop. Today pornography is located only two Internet-clicks away, and that affects how we deal with it.

BamS: Do you find this trend good or bad?

MF: We don't want the film to judge, but reflect conditions. Personally I find pornography is not necessarily bad, but considering the fact that the sexual act in porn films is often portrayed hard and violent, one must be asking oneself, what influence this fact has on our children who come in contact with pornography for the first time on the Internet.

A scan of the original article you find here.