Michael Fassbender in Glamour Italia

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Michael Fassbender laughs once during our meeting. At the end. Listen to the questions carefully and fondles his beard of a few days. Then he fixed his gaze and bares. He manages well, not just metaphorically. Since he stripped to get into the role of the tormented sex addict of Shame, in 2011, became a planetary object of desire. And now comes The Counselor - The Prosecutor, Ridley Scott, the story of a lawyer who enters into a dirty turnover that cost him dearly.

The screenplay is by the famous writer Cormac McCarthy. What did you think while reading it?
I liked the description of the protagonists, motivated by greed, while around them people live in hardship. That is, the lives of poor people are on sale, according to the desire for some intent on accumulating wealth: the villa with pool, the Bentley, a diamond for his girlfriend. Everything to gain acceptance, respect, love.

You are insensitive to yourself?
I'm off to certain environments. My home is in London, not in Hollywood. And, when I work, I concentrate on what happens on the set. I lead a normal life. I am fortunate to be able to go where I want.

But then come back always to interpret amoral characters.
I don't like the positive, reassuring figures. Prefer to explore human frailties through provocative, roles that push the viewer to wonder about himself. For me this is the task of art and cinema.

Is there anything in particular that you can not stand?
The ease with which everyone is ready to make judgments. It seems to be back at the prejudices of the 50s. Perhaps the fault is also of the Internet and social media, which remove any filter to the way we communicate.

In various scenes of the movie you cry.
In the script was not expected, the tears came so unexpectedly, after that I relaxed. Yes, I am one who gets excited easily. I am moved by the grand gestures of affection or cruelty. And I cry when I am disappointed by my behavior.

What do you crave when you were a child?
To do everything that I saw in the TV series. The private investigator, but also the pilot or the stuntman, since I love the speed. Then I decided to put on a heavy metal band. Came home from school and I was the guitar for hours. One day, however, I heard a friend: I realised that he had what it takes, I don't. So I let it go.

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Martin Freeman, Tom Hollander: 2 Oscar-nominated live shorts that stand out

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By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic
POSTED: January 31, 2014

In "The Voorman Problem," Martin Freeman (right) is a psychologist sent to interview an inmate (played by Tom Hollander) who says he is God.

Two great reasons to see The Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2014: Live Action - one dark and funny and wickedly existential, the other a nail-biter of a domestic drama, filled with dread.

The former stars Martin Freeman, alias Bilbo Baggins, alias Dr. John Watson (opposite that Caldecott Bumbershoot fellow in PBS's Sherlock). In the British short "The Voorman Problem," Freeman plays a psychologist dispatched to interview a prisoner who claims he is God. The warden needs certification to put him away. Problem? His fellow inmates have come to believe that the straitjacketed Voorman (Tom Hollander) is indeed who he claims to be.

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Christian Bale's mum reveals heartbreak of feud which means they haven't spoken for SIX YEARS

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Jan 26, 2014 00:00
By Deborah Sherwood

Estranged: Christian Bale with his mother Jenny and his wife Sibi

The heartbroken mum of Hollywood superstar Christian Bale today begs him to end their bitter six-year feud as he stands on the brink of Oscar glory.

Jenny, 66, has not spoken to her famous son since she and his sister Sharon fell out with him at a hotel on the eve of his Dark Knight premiere in 2008.

Police were called and the star – nominated last week for Best Actor in American Hustle – was arrested on suspicion of assault. It was claimed they rowed over money – something Jenny has always strongly denied.

Now, after years of sending her son emails in the hope he would get in touch, Jenny is desperate for a reunion before his landmark 40th birthday on Thursday.

Child star: Christian aged 14 with his mum and sisters at the Empire Of The Sun premiere

Until then, watching ­Christian’s hit films – from his big break at 11 years old in Empire Of The Sun and ­American Psycho through to the Batman epics – is the only way she can ease her heartache.

“I have them all,” she says with pride. “Every one he’s made. Then sometimes Christian will come up on TV in one of his films. I’ll be flicking through the channels and suddenly there he is, looking at me from the TV. I think, ‘Oh God’ and carry on watching.”

She went to see American Hustle – in which her son plays plays a fat, balding conman with two beauties fighting over him – at her local cinema in Bournemouth last week.

“I always go to see his films. I usually go on my own, but watched American Hustle with my neighbour,”  says Jenny.


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MICHAEL FASSBENDER - 12 YEARS A SLAVE - Oscars 2014 Cheat Sheet: Best Supporting Actor

WHY HE WILL WIN

 

1. He’s widely acknowledged as one of the best young actors working today, and this is just the latest in a series of flawless performances – particularly with Steve McQueen, who also directed him in Shame and Hunger.

  

2. He has the matching BAFTA and SAG nominations – and rightly so. Without Fassbender’s Epps to put an inhuman face on slave ownership, the film would not have worked half as well.

3. The Academy failed to nominate him for Shame or Hunger. Frankly, they owe him.

WHY HE WON'T WIN

1. There’s such a thing as an embarrassment of riches. It hardly seems fair to give him an Oscar as well as everything else.

2. Leto has won everything going so far, so it may be that Fassbender will be overlooked this year. And the voters may shrug and assume he has yet more great performances in him to come.

3. The Academy failed to nominate him for Shame or Hunger. Maybe they just don’t like him.

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Pictured: Michael Fassbender enjoys romantic PDA with new 'girlfriend' Madalina Ghenea as they holiday in Milan

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By JENNIFER PEARSON and REBECCA DAVISON
PUBLISHED: 07:37 EST, 17 January 2014 | UPDATED: 09:26 EST, 17 January 2014



Actor Michael Fassbender and Romanian beauty, Madalina Ghenea looked very much together when they stepped out in Milan on Wednesday.

The pair held hands as they walked around Italy taking in the sights and at one point, the good-looking gentleman even put his arm protectively around the actress and model.

It's been a great week for the 36-year-old Irish star as he has just won his first-ever Oscar nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category for his role as a brutal slave owner in 12 Years A Slave.

Michael seemed as if he was trying to blend into the crowd as he stepped out with the actress and model and was sporting a fairly long beard.

Michael and Madalina were both in attendance at the 2013 Toronto Film Festival in September, where he promoted 12 Years a Slave and she premiered her movie, Dom Hemingway.

The twosome were reportedly both attendees at the Fox Searchlight Party during the festival, so it's possible that they met each other back then.

Madalina is not a stranger to dating members of the A-list and she was last linked to Scottish hunk Gerard Butler in 2013. In fact, the pair were seen cruising around Rome on foot in June.

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The Actor Who Brought Gandhi to Life – Sir Ben Kingsley! By Sowmya Nandakumar (INDO AMERICAN NEWS)

One of the eight actors of Asian origin to be nominated for an Academy Award in the acting category, Ben Kingsley (Krishna Pandit Bhanji), was born on December 31, 1943 in Snaiton, Yorkshire, England.

 Kingsley’s father Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji was a medical doctor of Gujarati lineage, born in Kenya. Rahimatulla’s father was apparently a spice trader who had moved to Zanzibar where they lived till Rahimatulla was 14, after which they moved to England.

Kingsley’s mother Anna Lynn Mary was a British actress and model allegedly born out of wedlock. Her father was believed to be a Russian or German Jew and her mother, an English lady who worked in East London’s garment district.

Kingsley was raised in Pendlebury, Salford and studied in Manchester Grammar School, University of Salford, and Pendleton College, which houses the Ben Kingsley Theater.

 Kingsley’s professional debut on the London stage was in 1966, as the narrator of The Smashing Day produced by The Beatles’ manager, Brian Epstein. Kingsley wrote music, sang and even played the guitar for this production.

After one of the performances, John Lennon and Ringo Starr supposedly went backstage and told him to take up music as his career otherwise regret it all his life. But in 1967, he was invited to join the Royal Shakespeare Company and in 1971, made his American debut on Broadway.

 He made his career choice. There was no looking back! His first marriage in 1966 to actress Angela Morrant, gave him two children, Thomas and Jasmin Kingsley. The marriage lasted six years.


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Brenda Blethyn: 'I don't care about the way I look' Brenda Blethyn talks about class, getting remarried in later life, and a late-blossoming career that only took off at 40 By Daphne Lockyer7:00AM BST 29 Apr 2012 (TELEGRAPH)

Brenda Blethyn is an expert in making herself ugly. “I couldn’t care less about the way I look on screen,” she says. “If you did, you’d never play the interesting parts.” Blethyn can currently be found on Sunday evenings in Vera, the critically acclaimed – and hugely popular – crime drama. Based on the Ann Cleeves novels, she plays Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope, a well-upholstered Geordie woman of a certain age.

She is “big, fat and ugly”, says Blethyn, who wears her hair limp for the role. “And you also let this lot go,” she continues, unflexing a set of jowls that you wouldn’t normally notice.

We meet at what used to be the old Swan Hunter Shipyard in Newcastle, close to where the series is filmed. In the flesh, the actress looks considerably younger than her 66 years. She’s down to earth, giggly and good humoured with a Trojan work ethic –­ “I’m never late, I turn up knowing my lines, and I’m very clean,” she laughs.

In fact, today she is nursing the mother of all colds, not that she’s complaining. “I’m looking forward to going home and having a bit of rest, maybe cook myself a pork chop in my own kitchen.” While other actresses are always complaining that the roles decrease as the years mount up, Blethyn’s stock just keeps on rising. “I’m the reverse of actresses whose careers seem to peter out at the age of 40. Mine seemed to get better from that point on.”

Indeed, Blethyn OBE has twice been nominated for an Oscar – once as Cynthia, a woman tracked down by the daughter she gave up for adoption in Mike Leigh’s Secrets and Lies; and as Jane Horrocks’ blousy, alcohol-soaked mother in Little Voice. Many of the characters in her repertoire are emotionally broken. “Vera, for example, grew up in a funny family. Her mother died when she was young, her father was an oddball who hid his wealth by living like a hermit. Vera’s a loner too, but that doesn’t mean she’s lonely. She’s very happy in her own company.”

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