Michael Fassbender is a popular name in the comic book superhero films genre, for his role of Magneto in X-men. The 46-year-old Irish star has worked on numerous notable projects over the past decades including Prometheus, Assassin’s Creed, Steve Jobs, Shame, 300, and Inglourious Basterds, among others. The actor has been nominated twice for the Academy Award and has won numerous other accolades in his career.
Michael Fassbender opened up about handling the fame in his life and the valuable lessons he has learned from the women around him.
X-men actor Michael Fassbender on handling fame in his career
A Dangerous Method actor, Michael Fassbender, shared in an interview about achieving fame in his career. The actor said it’s not very easy to attain fame in life, but he is thankful for the support of the most powerful women in his life, including his wife, Alicia Vikander.
The actor and Alicia Vikander are very private about their personal life. They did not even disclose the name of their son. Fassbender shared that it is tricky being in the open, however, he has made peace with it.
Michael Fassbender told Candis magazine,
“Fame is the tricky part for sure. I used to be able to fly under the radar and do my own thing, but not so much these days. ‘The payoff is very good, of course, but I don’t know if being famous ever gets easier. I think you just have to make your peace with it.”
Michael Fassbender is also a racing driver who started in 2017 with the Ferrari Challenge. In 2023, he raced in the European Le Mans Series and drove for Proton Competition.
X-men star Michael Fassbender opens up on powerful women in his life
12 Years a Slave actor credits his sister for teaching him to empower and respect women from his youth days. He shared,
“I’m really happy I had a sister. because I learned so much from her about women when we were growing up, to see them not just as the opposite sex, but as people I can have friendships with too.”
“My sister’s a single mother. She’s got two boys and she works as a neuroscientist, so she’s pretty formidable, pretty amazing. There are some very powerful women in my life – my mother, my sister, my grandma – who have hugely shaped who I am today… And my wife, of course. She’s also a very powerful woman!”
He shared that he feels that women are the superior sex. He explained,
“I think women are so much more evolved and complicated than men. I think we men are kind of stupid and straightforward and I suppose because women have had to deal with men suppressing them for thousands of years, they’ve had to become more evolved. Also, because they have this amazing system that allows them to carry children inside them, they also have the brain that goes with that. I just think they’re more advanced than we are. You can see it in the teenage years that girls mature much quicker than guys, and that’s probably true in adult years as well.”
Michael Fassbender began dating his co-star from the 2016 film The Light Between Oceans, Alicia Vikander, in 2014. The duo married in a private ceremony in 2017 and settled in Lisbon. The couple had a son in 2021.
The actor will be seen with Brad Pitt in The Killer, which will release this September.
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Source- Female First
