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The drama that follows is heartbreaking, but the two actors fill their roles with incandescent grace notes.
But that still includes the experience that brought them together.
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Fassbender adds: “You have to come together very quickly.
That’s a very specific, unusual thing to this businessand it can be a very powerful thing.”
There is an element of separation there.
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If I’m playing a murderer, I don’t go out and start murdering people.
It was very easy to unite, but that’s quite personal.
And I respect that.
STARRING: Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel WeiszDIRECTED BY: Derek CianfranceRELEASE DATE: 9/2With a bit of digital magic, New Zealand’s Cape Campbell was transformed into Janus Rock, a fictional Australian island on which stoic lighthouse keeper Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) resides with his wife, Isabel (Alicia Vikander). The movie takes place in the 1920s, and the couple is living in peaceful isolation, a half day’s boat ride from the nearest people. Then tragedy strikes. Isabel suffers one miscarriage, and another, and sinks into despair—until one day when a rowboat washes ashore with a baby girl and her dead father aboard. Isabel persuades Tom to keep the newborn, but it’s an agonizing decision, especially when he encounters a bereaved woman (Rachel Weisz) on the mainland who he suspects is the girl’s mother. .Davi Russo
I’m not interested in asking all about your personal lives.
VIKANDER:[Laughing] Sure!
FASSBENDER:[Laughing] Sure, buddy!
But here’s what I’m interested in.
You’ve really managed to keep your private lives private.
A lot of people in the spotlight don’t.
FASSBENDER:But that’s other people.
Each to their own.
That’s the impulse in your fans to know more about your relationship.
FASSBENDER:I might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up.
That’s human nature.
We’re all curious about a lot of things.
But my curiosity didn’t obligate them to tell me.
Then you’re just watching a brand, as opposed to an actor.
But for me, that was the same as the stories I saw up on the movie screen.
That’s what I meanI love the mystery behind it all.
The actors I looked up to when I was a teenager, they all just disappeared into different characters.
Who were the actors that you looked up to?
FASSBENDER:All the usual suspects.
Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Brando, John Cazale.
Yeah, I don’t think of Hackman or Pacino and wonder about their personal lives.
FASSBENDER:It was a different time.
Nowadays of course everybody’s got phones and cameras.
VIKANDER:Even people who don’t have the jobs we do.
I’ve been asked a lot of question because I’m not on social media.
And that was before I was really in films.
And I know it involves a lot of other people who are not in the public eye.
But it’s a pressure that you kind of have to do it.
If you like it, then it’s great.
That’s just the way we’re moving ahead.
But I think you better do what feels right.
Do either of you read reviews of your movies?
FASSBENDER:Unfortunately, yes.
Usually you just remember the negative ones.
VIKANDER:Yep, again, it’s just human nature.
you might hear a hundred nice words about yourself, and you’ll only remember the one bad one.
