A hunger for the big screen

THE WORDS “cat” and “cream” immediately spring to mind, when a beaming Michael Fassbender comes loping into the Dorchester Hotel in London this week.

The morning after one of the first screenings of the latest X-Men, in which Michael Fassbender plays the lead Eric Lensherr, the six-foot Kerryman is ebullient about the progression of his career since his breakout role as Bobby Sands in Hunger in 2008.

“I trusted myself from the start and I just believed,” he says. “I kept knocking at the door and at some point there was a crack and I got my toe in. Once I got my toe in, I got the rest of my foot in and the next thing, I was in the room.”