A Magnetic Personality. Michael Fassbender Reveals What We Will See Of Magneto's Past In X-Men: First Class. In an interview with Metro US Michael Fassbender speaks about what we can expect to see from Eric Lensher's past in Mathew Vaughn's X prequel..
When asked what we will be seeing of Magento's past.. "You will see a little bit of that, yeah, at the beginning but I thought what was interesting was what happened to him after the war – he gets that young gypsy girl out of the concentration camp that he falls in love with. They take off together and have a baby and the mob ends up going crazy and burning down the house and the child dies in the blaze. Exclusive: Michael Fassbender Talks About Magneto. If you’ve seen actor Michael Fassbender in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, Zack Snyder’s 300, Neil Marshall’s Centurion or his unforgettable performances in Steve McQueen’s Hunger and Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank, then you already know that he’s well up for the role of playing Erik Lehnsherr a.k.a.
Magneto in Matthew Vaughn’s superhero prequel X-Men: First Class. The first trailer for the movie hit the internet in a big way this past week and since Fassbender was back in New York City to film Steve McQueen’s follow-up Shame and to do some press for his upcoming role as Rochester in Cary Fukunaga’s adaptation of Jane Eyre, SuperHeroHype sat down with him to talk about his role in the movie as well as his anticipated turn as the Master of Magnetism. Hearing all of Fassbender’s knowledge about Magneto’s origin, we wondered how much of that was going to be in the movie. Look for our full interview with Michael Fassbender over on ComingSoon.net before Jane Eyre comes out on March 11.
Michael Fassbender in ‘X-Men - First Class’ and ‘Prometheus’