Hollywood royalty: Michael Fassbender on the role of a lifetime in Macbeth

Michael Fassbender has become a Hollywood star by not adhering to expectations. Rivka Galchen meets film’s enigmatic outsider.

Hollywood royalty: Michael Fassbender on the role of a lifetime in Macbeth

I HAD ALREADY been turned down by two drama schools,” Michael Fassbender was explaining over breakfast in one of those New York hotel restaurants where beautiful people add wheatgrass to their smoothies.

That rejection at 19 led him to London to try his luck auditioning for the Drama Centre there. He had prepared an Iago monologue, had gone over it hundreds of times, but he was still nervous.

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