Michael Fassbender: Newsweek's Oscar Roundtable (Reveals Actors' Private Parts) (Daily Sexy Beast)

By David Ansen


We knew the chemistry was going to be special this year. Although this is work for them—just part of a string of Oscar-season promotional duties—it feels more like a cozy A-list dinner party.

Fassbender, who once worked as a bartender, runs out with his publicist before the photo shoot and returns bearing vodka and Bloody Mary mix, then sets up shop behind the bar in the greenroom and begins to pour. (It’s still well before noon.) With his short-cropped hair and Irish bonhomie, he bears no resemblance to the slick sex addict in Shame or the moody, sideburned Rochester in Jane Eyre, and even less to the straitlaced Carl Jung in A Dangerous Method—especially when he and Theron start sharing stories of their drunken sky-diving experiences.

Last to arrive is Christopher Plummer, dapper and elegant. At 82, Plummer is no longer the drinking man he was in his wilder days—his recent memoir is full of memorable boozing tales—so he doesn’t partake. But there’s no need to loosen him up: in front of our video camera, he assumes the persona of the newly out gay father in Beginners, playing with a scarf as he boogies to house music. When it’s Theron’s turn, she transforms herself into the reckless, drunken narcissist she plays so unforgettably in Young Adult, and hurls a drink at the camera. (To see these and other star videos from the Oscar Roundtable, check out Newsweek’s new iPad app.)



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