When most actors don’t get nominated for an Academy Award, they put on a brave face, make a self-deprecating joke on Twitter and act like it doesn’t bother them one bit. But we all know it must irk them a little. And Michael Fassbender has confirmed it.
The star, who will soon be seen as an android in “Prometheus,” candidly admits in a new GQ profile that he was pretty bummed out when his performance in “Shame” failed to make the Oscar cut earlier this year.
“At the beginning people [say], ‘You’re going to be going to the Oscars,’ and you’re like, ‘Whatever, doesn’t matter, don’t think so,’ ” the actor tells GQ reporter Chris Heath. “But after a while it does penetrate. After a while you’re like, ‘Anyway, so I’m going to the Oscars. . . ’ . . . And you start to believe it. And I did. I thought I was going. And then I found out I wasn’t and I was upset. I was very upset by it.”
Lest you think that Fassbender’s Oscar feelings suggest a significant level of self-absorption, please know that he learned an important lesson from the experience.
“It’s a vanity thing,” he says. “It does become important to you. And it shouldn’t.”
READ MORE ABOUT THE GQ ARTICLE: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/celebritology/post/michael-fassbender-was-very-upset-about-not-getting-an-oscar-nod-also-hes-dating-nicole-beharie/2012/05/15/gIQADHSORU_blog.html
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