THE WILDIRISH BOY

摘要

JESSICA WINTER; MICHAEL FASSBENDER HAS A LOOK. IT'S A CROSS between a stare, a glare and a laser attack. The muscles in his finely angled face tense, and his blue-green eyes all but pulsate in their sockets. In his breakthrough film, Hunger (2008), Fass-bender, playing the IRA martyr Bobby Sands, casts that look on a well-meaning priest, vaporizing any pleas against the hunger strike that will kill him. You see the look in Ingburious Basterds (2009), just before Fassbender's English spy tongue-lashes a Nazi lout, and in this year's Jane Eyre, when his Rochester matches wits with the equally steely heroine. The look is the standout special effect in this summer's X-Men: First Class, which cast Fassbender as the vengeful mutant Magneto, and it's the default expression of Brandon, the tormented sex addict of December's Shame, for which Fassbender is being touted for an Oscar nomination.