Bedhead sent me this Variety interview with Michael Fassbender yesterday and I found it so depressing that I was all “Eh, I’ll wait until we have some photos of him in Cannes.” It’s not depressing because of Fassy – it’s depressing because the Variety interviewer, Ramin Setoodeh, is such a well-known hack. Setoodeh used to work for Time Magazine and I hated him then too – his “shtick” is not doing any research and being pretty rude and unprofessional to the people he interviews. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights (in context of Setoodeh’s terrible questions):

RS: You recently finished playing Steve Jobs. Is it dark?
MF: Like “The Conjuring”?

No, is it a favorable adaptation?
I think it is.

You look skinnier now.
I didn’t lose weight. But I certainly didn’t go to the gym.

Did it cause you to look at Mac products differently?
It did. I’m still on my iPhone 4.

You don’t have the iPhone 6?
No, the 4 is my favorite design. I also use something until it’s no longer useable.

Your phone looks broken.
But it still works. The cover actually broke off my broken phone.

Where are you living now?
I’m still in London, but I haven’t spent too much time there in the last year. I did think about L.A. before, but not so much now. I think I’m European. I know I’m European. I’m happiest there.

Do you still have to put yourself on tape?
Luckily, not for a while. I think the last audition I did was for “Inside Llewyn Davis,” the Coen brothers film.

Are you in that movie?
No, I’m not. Thanks for pointing that out. It was an unsuccessful audition. I went up for Oscar [Isaac’s] part.

[From Variety]

I think that was the point where most people are like, “Really? You’re going to ask Michael Fassbender if he’s in Inside Llewyn Davis?” What else? Let’s see… Fassy says he would “shoot a hundred” X-Men films if they wanted him but that his contract was for three films and he’s “curious” as to what will happen next. He also says he hasn’t seen Macbeth yet and that he didn’t really learn how to perform in iambic pentameter, saying: “I’m a little dyslexic with the iambic pentameter. I just always tried to make sense of it, and hoped the rhythm would follow.”

Speaking of… they just revealed this first clip from Macbeth as a Cannes teaser. Hopefully we’ll get a real trailer in the next week. The shouting… hm…

Photos courtesy of PR Photos, ‘Macbeth’ production still.