Michael Fassbender is one of our best actors, but that doesn't stop him from having to read scripts. He still has to sort through the material and try to pick what speaks to him. Over the last couple of years, he's taken some time off to do just that. Fassbender talked with Indiewire about his hiatus from acting and what brought him back to the big screen. Now he's starring in Steven Soderbergh's Black Bag, a sizzling spy thriller that has debuted to extremely favorable reviews. So, what made this the project to come back to work for? Fassbender said, “It was a fantastic collection of characters. And it falls into the film demographic that we just don’t see a lot of these days. That it was going to get made was exciting. It’s hard for film companies to support films in that budget category, there’s not many $30 to $40 million films anymore, unfortunately.”David Koepp wrote the script, which sounds like an absolute blast Fassbender continued, “As I started reading the script: ‘Wow, this is smart and funny.’ And it moved at a click. The pace at which I was propelled forward by these characters was exciting. And we were in this spy genre: the story wasn’t motivated by action set pieces, it was psychological warfare going on between these fascinating and intriguing characters. There are a couple of visceral moments in the film that are quite violent, for sure, but what’s propelling it forward are these crackling scenes...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Friday, 14 March, 2025