Face To Fassy

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My great big takeaway from this new interview with Michael Fassbender on his great work in 12 Years a Slave is that if you ask him about the physicality of the performance, he will explain it by basically molesting you.

"Every time Epps is around one of his slaves, he's touching them... The gestures seem casual on the surface, even friendly, but because he is the master and they are slaves, it's something more threatening and contemptuous, erasing the notion of personal space. "It's the difference between me sitting here," Fassbender said, and then to demonstrate, abruptly moving his position on the couch so that our faces were practically touching, "and me sitting here. It changes the dynamic immediately. It's his space. He owns it. And he owns them. That's the way he sees it.""

Picture it: You're sitting there across from Michael Fassbender and suddenly he's pretty much on top of you, talking about owning you. This interview should have just turned into a bunch of gibberish a la letters on a keyboard being smashed randomly, uhwef9 unvm8-cc79fmpla,sxlm,PIQMijcnwdiucn83, because this writer needed to get across the whole passing-out that inevitably happened next.

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