Why Michael Fassbender’s Sex Scene With Penelope Cruz Was Awkward

CELEBRITY NEWSIE
October 8, 2013

Michael Fassbender and Penelope Cruz participate in a sex scene in Ridley Scott’s new film, “The Counselor,” and in a new interview with E! Online, Fassbender confirms that the pretend intercourse was as uncomfortable as one might imagine.

“It’s always a bit awkward, really. Doing scenes like that, especially cause Javier [Bardem] was sitting at the end of the bed. That was really weird,” Fassbender joked to the network. (Bardem and Cruz are married.) “You just wanna make sure that the other person is comfortable and that the other person doesn’t feel like you’re taking advantage of any situation. And then to just try and feel safe with one another really and then you can really hopefully sell what needs to be sold.”

In the new film, which is based on an original script by Cormac McCarthy, Fassbender plays a lawyer who gets caught up in the drug trade (Cruz, Bardem, Brad Pitt and Cameron Diaz round out the all-star cast). “The Counselor” is out in theaters on Oct. 25, giving Fassbender two high-profile releases in the month of October (the other being “12 Years A Slave”).

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Irish dreamboat Michael Fassbender admits that Oscar would be the 'icing on the cake'.

E Entertainment
October 7, 2013



Finally, an actor who is honest enough to admit that receiving an Oscar nod would not be the worst thing in the world. With two major movies coming out this year, our very own Michael Fassbender admitted to Sky News that receiving a nomination would in fact be 'the icing on the cake'.

Fassbender enters dark territory in both movies and it's widely believed that the roles that he has taken on are bona fide Oscar bait. In The Counselor he plays a lawyer who finds himself in the world of organised crime while in 12 Years a Slave, which sees him reunited with Shame director Steve McQueen, he plays an, ahem, morally corrupt slave owner.

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Michael Fassbender Blushes at The Counselor U.K. Premiere

By DAVID WEINER October 03, 2013

ET

A cool Michael Fassbender is surrounded by cheetahs, trip wires, a slick Brad Pitt, a slinky Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem with crazy hair and a lot more in director Ridley Scott's new movie based on the Cormac McCarthy's first screenplay, The Counselor. Watch the highlights from the film's world premiere in London, and see why ET's Rocsi Diaz made Fassbender blush!

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Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender talk things over in a new clip from The Counselor

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September 26, 2013 | Written By: Brad Sturdivant

Another clip from THE COUNSELOR has been released and although it’s not anything spectacular, it is great to see two heavyweight actors give a little back and forth in a short clip.  The clip features Brad Pitt advising Michael Fassbender to not do what he’s about to do.  This one is pretty high on my radar of movies to see this fall and we’re only a month away from catching it in theaters.  THE COUNSELOR stars: Michael Fassbender, Javier Bardem, Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz, Penelope Cruz, Natalie Dormer, Goran Visnjic, Dean Norris, John Leguizamo and Rosie Perez. The Ridley Scott directed film hits theaters on October 25th, 2013.





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Michael Fassbender Seduces Penelope Cruz In 'The Counselor', with Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem

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By JACKIE WILLIS August 07, 2013

The first trailer for The Counselor came out today (watch) and in addition to showcasing the full force of the film in two relentless minutes, three clips were also released from director Ridley Scott's film that stars Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Cameron Diaz, Penelope Cruz and her husband Javier Bardem. Are you ready to be bad?

The Counselor, hitting theaters Oct. 25, 2013, is about a lawyer who finds himself in over his head when he gets involved in drug trafficking. Here's a look at the newly released clips (WARNING: some scenes are NSFW):


1. Fassbender's character requests of Cruz, "Tell me something sexy."

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Michael Fassbender: New 'The Counselor' Clip with Brad Pitt

JUST JARED 
August 6, 2013 

 Check out Brad Pitt in this brand new clip from his upcoming film The Counselor.

The 49-year-old actor is featured in the clip alongside his co-star Michael Fassbender.

Javier Bardem, Cameron Diaz, and Penelope Cruz also star in the Ridley Scott-helmed movie, which is set to be released in theaters on October 25.

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Micheal Fassbender: New Counselor Stills Show Off Brad Pitt In A Big Hat

30 July 2013

Written by Ali Plumb

EMPIRE

Blessed with a strong cast (Michael Fassbender, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem, Brad Pitt), a strong director (Ridley Scott) and perhaps one of the strongest writers to ever write (Cormac McCarthy), The Counsellor is, it's safe to say, a strong bet for Oscar contention come early next year.

To whet your appetite for such a fortuitous event, here are several more stills from the set, featuring both Cameon Diaz and Brad Pitt in helluvabig hats.

Pitt, who spoke to Empire in Cannes last year after the premiere of Andrew Dominik’s crime thriller Killing Them Softly, said the following about his role in The Counsellor.

 “I’m only doing a few days on that,” he explains. “Andrew and I are both Cormac McCarthy fans — I mean, I’ve read every word the guy’s published and most of them more than once. So this was a chance to do something of his and also to work with Ridley again. Ridley gave me my first break into the big leagues [with 1991’s Thelma & Louise]. And I’m a Fassbender fanatic too.”

 McCarthy (author of No Country For Old Men, The Road and All The Pretty Horses) delivered the spec screenplay for The Counsellor to his surprised publishers in January last year, and Scott was signed as director only weeks later.

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Michael Fassbender’s been ‘bad’ in new trailer, for ‘The Counselor’: must-see?

 CELEBITCHY

JULY 19, 2013

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Several weeks ago, we got to see the Russian-language version of the trailer for The Counselor. It was enough to get me going, although when Michael Fassbender is involved, it really doesn’t take much for me. Just one look at those blue eyes and that ginger hair and I’m committed. But now the English-language version of the trailer has come out and OMG. Keep in mind – this is just a teaser. We can’t really see much of the plot beyond “Fassy is engaged to Penelope Cruz’s character, Javier Bardem has crazy hair, Brad Pitt is a sleazy money man and Cameron Diaz wants to bang Penelope Cruz.” And I’m down with ALL of it.

Ridley Scott deserves some kind of special recognition for making Cameron Diaz look that beautiful and sexy. I mean, she’s an attractive woman with a great figure all the time, but she’s been messing with her face the past few years, but you really can’t tell here. And the role Camy is playing… that’s the one Angelina Jolie was thinking about doing, right? But Angelina had other commitments, which is too bad because casting Angelina in that role would have been very, very interesting.

Michael Fassbender: 'The Counselor' Teaser Trailer (GMA NETWORK)

From Academy Award nominee Ridley Scott comes "The Counselor" starring Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, John Leguizamo, Penelope Cruz and Cameron Diaz.  

 Written by Pulitzer Prize winner Cormac McCarthy, "The Counselor" follows lawyer (Fassbender) who he decides to get involved in a drug deal worth millions.

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Michael Fassbender: First Trailer For Ridley Scott’s ‘The Counselor’ With Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Javier Bardem & More Written by Jack Cunliffe, on June 25, 2013 at 9:37 am

Following last year’s blockbuster Prometheus, Ridley Scott will return to the world of R-rated, adult fare with the Cormac McCarthy-penned drama, The Counselor. Featuring one of the finest ensembles of the year, Michael Fassbender stars as a counselor who gets himself into a world of trouble after entering the drug trade, coming in contact with some strange characters (Brad Pitt) and outright villainous types (Javier Bardem) as things only get worse and worse.

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The Hobbit receives the most nominations for the Saturn Awards Posted 10:24 am on Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 by John 'Spartan' Nguyen (NERD REACTOR)

Oh sure, the Oscars is a big night for movie lovers, but what about movie lovers who are into science fiction and fantasy? Luckily, we have the Saturn Awards. The show was created because other award shows weren’t showing a lot of love to the sci-fi/fantasy genre. The 39th annual Saturn Awards just announced its list of nominees.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey hit it big by receiving nine nominations. It’s got the most nominations compared to other movies. Following behind the Hobbit are Life of Pi and Skyfall. Other top-nominated movies include The Avengers, The Dark Knight Returns, Looper, Cloud Atlas, Argo and Les Miserables.

Films aren’t the only ones being nominated. TV shows like Fringe, Dexter and The Walking Dead are the leading nominees. Other shows being nominated include Doctor Who and Merlin.

I’m glad to see actors like Martin Freeman (The Hobbit), Javier Bardem (Skyfall), Michael Fassbender (Prometheus), Ian McKellen (The Hobbit), Anne Hathaway (The Dark Knight Rises), Clark Gregg (The Avengers), and Joseph-Gordon Levitt (Looper) getting nominated. I can’t leave out Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained) and Hugh Jackman (Les Miserables), but they’re already getting recognition on other award shows. I’m really surprised to see Clark Gregg on the Best Supporting Actor list.

The Saturn Awards will take place in June. The exact date and location will be announced soon.

Here are some of the nominated categories...


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Did Michael Fassbender & Cameron Diaz hook up in London last week? (CELEBITCHY)

If there’s one thing I know about Michael Fassbender, it’s that 6-foot-tall blondes will do anything to throw themselves into the path of L’Fassdong. It happened with Charlize Theron, and maybe it happened with Jennifer Lawrence too (although I doubt it). And now it apparently happened with Cameron Diaz, at least according to Us Weekly’s sources. Cameron and Fassbender worked together on Ridley Scott’s The Counselor, which also stars Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt. Cameron and Fassy were in London last week doing some reshoots (the production took a hiatus when Ridley’s brother passed away), and Us Weekly’s sources claim Fassy & Camy were looking very flirty and friendly.

Kissing costars? Multiple witnesses tell Us Weekly’s Hot Stuff that Cameron Diaz, 40, and her Counselor leading man, Michael Fassbender, dined together on February 7 at London’s Soho Hotel – and then made their way upstairs to a suite!

“They acted very flirty throughout dinner,” says a witness of the two, who were in the UK for reshoots on their crime drama. Later, at 12:30 am, another guest saw the pair step into a hotel room: “It looked like they were going to hook up!”

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Ridley Scott's 'The Counselor' gets November release Published Thursday, Jan 24 2013, 5:30am EST | By Emma Dibdin | (DIGITAL SPY)

Ridley Scott's The Counselor has a confirmed release date. 

The thriller, which stars Michael Fassbender as a struggling lawyer who becomes embroiled in the drug trade, will be released in the US on November 15.

Fassbender's character, known only as The Counselor, is brought into the cocaine trade by career criminal Reiner (Javier Bardem), while Brad Pitt's shady Westray helps him acquire $20 million worth of the drug. 

When things get out of hand, The Counselor ends up fighting for his life

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SPOILER ALERT: Dame Judi Dench creates stylish 007 souvenir by turning brass bullets from final Skyfall scene in to cufflinks PUBLISHED: 08:01 EST, 15 January 2013 | UPDATED: 08:01 EST, 15 January 2013 (MAIL ON LINE)

After shooting her final James Bond scenes as M in Skyfall Dame Judi Dench kept the casings of the four bullets she fired and had them turned into cufflinks as Christmas presents

IT was the moment she finally got out from behind her London desk and in amongst the action – and it cost James Bond’s M, played by Dame Judi Dench, her life.

The matriarchal MI6 spy chief went out in a blaze of glory in her dramatic last ever scenes for the blockbuster franchise, fatally injured in a gunfight with Javier Bardem’s flamboyant villain and his henchmen in the latest Bond outing, Skyfall.

But while clearly emotional at bowing out of the series, the acting dame was clearly thrilled that she got to fire off a few shots at the baddies before she went down, the only time throughout her seven-film tenure as M she got to show her credentials in the field.

She gave one pair to her 15-year-old grandson, Sammy, and another to her daughter Finty’s boyfriend for Christmas.

Designer jeweler Roger Elliott, 63, gold-plated the cartridges and studded their tips with rubies.


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Skyfall becomes the first billion dollar Bond film (YAHOO MOVIES)

Skyfall has become the first Bond film to make $1 billion at the box office.

Bond 23, which was released in October in the UK and November in the US, breached the record-breaking barrier over the Christmas holidays.

So far, the film – directed by Sam Mendes and the third film to star Daniel Craig as 007 –  has made $289,600,000 (£179,274,563) in the US, and then a sturdy $710,600,000 (£439,891,245) around the world – a total of $1,000,200,000.

It's the first Bond film ever to amass the sum, though it should add another substantial figure to that once it opens in China in the New Year.

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Dames Helen Mirren and Judi Dench battle for best actress award (TELEGRAPH)

Dame Helen Mirren will battle with Dame Judi Dench for best British actress at the London Critics' Circle Film Awards, as Daniel Craig gets nod for best actor for 007 role

Dame Helen Mirren will vie with Dame Judi Dench and Emily Blunt for best British actress at the London Critics' Circle Film Awards.

Actress Dame Helen is nominated for her role as the filmmaker's wife in the movie Hitchcock, while Dame Judi is up for two films, as MI5 boss in Skyfall and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

Blunt is also shortlisted for two films, Looper and Your Sister's Sister, while the other nominees are Andrea Riseborough (Shadow Dancer) and Alice Lowe (Sightseers).

Bond star Daniel Craig is up for British actor of the year, competing against Daniel Day-Lewis for his role as the former US president in the Steven Spielberg film Lincoln.

Skyfall has been nominated for five awards, including British film, supporting actor (Javier Bardem), and supporting actress (Dame Judi).

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Dame Maggie Smith, Brits Lead Field at the 2012 SAG Awards Posted on Wednesday, December 12th, 2012 (BBC AMERICA)

By Fraser McAlpine 

Dame Maggie Smith in ‘Downton Abbey’

The nominations have just be announced for the Screen Actor’s Guild awards, 2012, and it is fair to say that the Brits have done a very nice job. So much so that only two awards are unblessed by British influence, and Dame Maggie Smith may well end the night on the phone to a carpenter, to build her a bigger sideboard.

Let’s go through the nominees, and point at the Brits in the list. The full list is here:

In the motion picture collection of awards, we’ve got Daniel Day-Lewis (nominated for Lincoln) battling it out with Bradley Cooper, Denzel Washington, John Hawke and Hugh Jackman for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role. Meanwhile Dame Helen Mirren (Hitchcock) and Naomi Watts (The Impossible) are up against Jessica Chastain, Marion Cotillard, and Jennifer Lawrence for the female equivalent.

Over on the supporting actor lists, Skyfall is represented by Javier Bardem (he only has to beat Alan Arkin, Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Tommy Lee Jones, how hard can that be?) and Maggie Smith is up for her first award, for The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, a movie which is also nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, alongside Les Misérables (some good Brits in there), Lincoln (ditto), and Silver Linings Playbook (nope.).

Skyfall also gets a nod in the Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Team category, although its TV equivalent appears to have ignored any British shows, including Doctor Who, and (perhaps unkindest of all) the all-action Downton Abbey. It’s an outrage!

In the TV section, Clive Owen is nominated for the TV Movie Male Actor gong, for his portrayal of Ernest Hemingway in HBO’s Hemingway and Gellhorn. Charlotte Rampling takes up the British flag in the Female Actor section, after getting a nomination for her role in Restless.

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Daniel Craig, Judi Dench and Javier Bardem on The Graham Norton Show

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Martha Thomases: Judi Dench Is Not A Bond Girl (COMIC MIX)

Like so much of the world, I went to see Skyfall this weekend. I went with my friend Karen, who hadn’t seen a James Bond movie in a few decades. We both had a fantastic time, and if you haven’t already gone and you like action movies, you should go, right now. This column will still be here when you get back. And, if you can’t go right this second, I shall do my best to avoid spoilers.

There are all kinds of reasons to enjoy this movie: Daniel Craig is a terrific Bond; the locations are exotic and beautiful; the set pieces, including the opening scene and the fight in the glass building, are inventive and exciting; the cinematography is glorious.

For the purposes of this column, I want to talk about a feminist reason to like it: M. Or rather, Judi Dench. Dame Judi is 78 years old, and, in this movie, she looks it. Her hair is gray, almost white. Her face is wrinkled. Her body, at least as it appears in the wardrobe assigned to her, is slack.

None of this makes any difference, because she is not a “Bond girl.” She is M. She is the head of MI6, and she is determined to do the best possible job she can. Her dedication is to her mission and her country.

Because this is a James Bond movie, the emphasis is on her relationship with James Bond. However, this relationship, while cordial, is never less than professional, even when both of their lives are at stake. And it is the most compelling relationship in the whole movie.

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Judi Dench and Javier Bardem Steal the Show in Skyfall (PHILLY POST)

Astonishing performances in new James Bond flick might produce the series’ first-ever Oscar nominations for acting.
    
by Aaron Mettey

Every once in a while, there comes a movie that transcends its genre, like The Lord of the Rings and The Dark Knight. So it’s not an overestimation to say that the newest James Bond film Skyfall is one of the best of the series—and certainly the best of Daniel Craig’s three. Much of this is due to the reverence director Sam Mendes and the writers show for the original films and its extraordinary cast. But mostly it’s because it has Dame Judi Dench in a gunfight. Yes, you read that right: Judi Dench, gunfight.

For those who (were lucky and) didn’t see the last, almost series-ending Quantum of Solace, fear not: Skyfall is completely independent. As James Bond (Daniel Craig) and another agent Eve (Naomie Harris) pursue a stolen hard drive containing the identification of every undercover MI6 agent, things go horribly wrong: Bond is shot and presumed dead. Months later, after the drive falls into an ex-agent Silva’s hands (Javier Bardem), 007 returns from the dead—weakened from wounds and substance-abuse—to stop Silva from killing M (Judi Dench) and exposing the secret agents

With a motorcycle chase, a fistfight atop a train, and a beautiful woman on a beach, there are many hallmarks of the series. But this movie could almost be described as throwback 007 or James Bond 1.0. Most recent films centered on flashy cars and gadgets. But here, everything is bit more low-tech—the only gadget is a palm-print recognizing gun (so that Bond would be the only person who could shoot it). Sure there are still beautiful cars, but it’s the Aston Martin DB5 first appearing in Goldfinger. And in a refreshing change of pace, the Bond girl in this film is really M, as played by the 77-year-old Dench

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