October 16, 2024

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Celebrating X-Men Films And Beyond

Fassbender on the pressures of playing Magneto.

Absolute Radio — X-MEN: FIRST CLASS star Michael Fassbender recently spoke about the pressures of playing an iconic comic book character role like Magneto:

“There’s always a pressure. I sort of had that with ‘X-Men’ anyway. You know you’ve got a very large vocal passionate fan base, and you want to do them proud.” says Fassbender. “But you take that on board and then you kind of have to dismiss it. Because you want to make choices that are bold and definite, and if you’re worried about what other people are going to think other than your director, then the character will be neither here nor there.”