Michael Fassbender talks playing slave owner for 12 Years A Slave
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- čas přidán 18. 09. 2013
- Michael Fassbender sits down with Gregory Ellwood to talk playing a slave owner for the historical Steve McQueen directed period drama 12 Years A Slave.
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Bro he played his role so good i can't even look at him normal
He loves black women ..dates them even before the movie lol
@@nenaj1 Once you go Black.......
@@michaelotis223 ????
@@nenaj1 okay your point?
@@Itsmeealiciaa_hes not evil
He is a special actor. His acting is so diffrent and amazing.
Mina Daliri MAGNETO
shut up white person
can we please stop calling that insane obsession he has for Patsy "love"? this is not love, in any of the many meanings of the word.
I agree. Whatever perception of love that was, as frightening as love can possibly feel at times, how Epps treated Patsy was not love. That was possession and all manipulative forms of control. Not love. Wrong wording there, Fassbender.
I disagree he believed he loved her the word and meaning of love for him was that which he felt and learned as horrible as it was he didn’t understand why he felt this way for a slave n he wanted to destroy those feelings and he did so by destroying patsy
It was lust, not love, forbidden lust, power hungry, control....
When Fassbender calls it love, he's speaking from the characters point of view who actually did think all of the above was love, in it's own twisted form.
People show their love through different actions - through fits of jealousy, crimes of passion, etc.
@James Black That aint love bud
You know what I realized Patsy was underaged. We see her playing with dolls in the movie. Epps groomed her and towards the end of the film you see him getting close with a young child, his next victim. This movie is filled with so many layers and nuances definitely deserves multiple viewings.
Yes I caught that too.
She wasn’t. The writers and Lupita herself said she was about 23. Lupita had the idea to include the dolls to show how Patsy‘s youth was snatched away from her by Epps.
@@whatoncewas8480she was 13 when she arrived there though
WRONG
As a black man I can say he did an AMAZING job, he was tortured for his love of Patsy, we saw every nuance of his dispair, he and Chiwetel deserved an Oscar, Matthew Mcconawho?
Jared Letwhoo??!!!!!!!!
dianna k nah we're told that blacks are automatically oppressed in every situation
Worldtraveler8899 has him a case of nigga love .
yeah dallas buyers club is a sucks movie and i think chiwetel and fassbender should win the oscar
Honestly, he did such a convincing job that every time he was on screen I wanted to deck him in the face.
His character in the movie did not love Patsy at all. You don't rape and beat someone you love. There was no adoration towards her, only a sense of entitlement and obsession. Abuse and torture is not love. The character was a coward who was evil.
exactly
Shut up
Love isn't all rainbows and sweetness. Love can be twisted and cruel. Just look at the amount of abusive relationships that are in the world. I don't think this actor is far off the mark when describing Epp's feelings towards Patsey.
@@KaiserinErzsi twists and cruelty isn't love. Anyone describing love in such terms has zero concept of love and has never had any. Love doesn't involve rape and beatings. That character was evil and trash period. I don't care how the actor explains it.
@@underthemoonandoverthesky That is all valid but there are far too many examples in this world of love becoming dark, dangerous, obsessive and even deadly. Spouse against spouse and parent against child. Some people are just incapable of the 'healthy' type of love.
His job was to make the audience Hate His Character !!! What A, Performance !!!
His answer shows great insight into human nature actually. Not the answer you may want to hear but should not be dismissed. And as an actor they can't judge their characters in the same way the viewers does. Reminds me of Tom HIddlestons video about compassion - and how the bad guy thinks he's the hero of the story etc...
Yes.
Absolutely. The way he describes Epps is the way I saw him but I found many people who couldn't seem to see Epps as anything beyond "evil" which I found frustrating in terms of the story but also frustrating in terms of wanting to shake them because it seems they didn't see what was so wonderful and nuanced about Fassbender's performance.
Deadlydanish
Yes! He's not condoning Epps' actions. He has to do the job of an actor. If you judge the character while you're playing the character, you compromise the performance. People like this don't think they have a problem. If he judged the character, it will show in his performance. Fassbender is just trying to show the complexities...the ingredients to the 'evil' or madness. Many ppl don't realize the technical side of acting. There's Ted Bundy cold evil/madness and there's Epps' ignorant madness. He's not intelligent enough to process his feelings or lust. Whatever it was, it made an impression on Solomon and he had to write about it. Fassbender IS a brilliant actor. I agree in was a nuanced performance that only Fassbender could have pulled off. His performance as a master and McQueen's approach is the most nuanced I've scene in a slave drama.
Auntkekebaby I think his performance is the best in the film and his character was the most complex.
Fassbender is a terrific actor, but must he be so fucking pretty n gorgeous???
Lol lol lol
daaaaaamn, michael fassbender did SO WELL in this movie, that i couldn't even look at his face in this interview for more than 10 seconds without getting pissed lol
yeah, also he seems cold and intimidating. Like Walter/David in the Ridley Scott alien movies for real
Micheal Fassbinder's character did not love Patsy, he hurt her cause he wanted her to stay in her place! his wife hurt Patsy cause she was mad that he was sleeping with Patsy and not her!
Lisa Augustin Yeah "love affair" was a very odd choice of words from Fassbander. There was no love, only abuse for poor Patsy.
Lisa Augustin totally agree ,the character is a straight up rapist and the entire relationship is about him as a white male with power
He’s speaking from his character’s point of view.
@Maranda no not poor wife. She was an evil bitch. Poor Patsey!
Fantastic actor!
love and lust are two different things. come on now yall to grown to be acting like y'all dont know by now.
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Exactly I said the same thing Bc if he loved her he would’ve tried to protect her somehow he was clearly just infatuated with her beauty and saw her as nothing more than someone to sleep with
Thank you!
For Epps it was love, insane but in his mind was love. I think so.
One of my favorite actors in modern cinema. Man I hated him during this movie though.
i asked myself constantly after seeing Epps character "what had made him act like this", his performance are briliant
Why does he keep saying the relationship that epps and patsy had was love it was more lust not love.
What I took it as is that to Epps himself, it was love, but clearly, it wasn't from the viewers POV. It's that type of twisted mentality within Epps who thinks it's love, when really, it's no more than cruel lust that's been unfortunately put upon Patsey.
Let’s be honest a lot of slave owners were like him..
ok
Very similar to frollo and Esmeralda. All frodo's life he was told he could not associate with sinners. He knew nothing of sin, or thought he didn't despite being a sinner himself and feared what he didn't know. His attraction for Esmeralda led him to want to destroy the "hell fire" or wrongness that burned within him. His love was mistaken by himself by evil, because of his lack of understanding. The master's love for patsey is the exact same. They both seek to destroy the object of their affection because they simply cannot comprehend it.
It's Claude FROLLO
nikolas macalma Hahaha Thank you! I was reading this the whole time like “wait...there’s an Esmeralda in LOTR???” 🤣🤣
nikolas macalma sorry🥺
Jake Harris sorry 🥺
zodiac slut no, don’t apologise! It’s an easy mistake to make, and it gave me a laugh so thank you x
Fantastic film. I feel as if a less talented director would give zero character to the slave-owners just because of who they were, but McQueen made this character not just evil, but a broken human being.
Such an amazing actor! I hated him so much in the film. Slavery is such an evil. I deal with victims of modern slavery everyday. It’s horrific and unbelievable that’s it’s still happening today.
i love you michael,what a amazing actor you are,love you so much…..
He did a good job as Epps and was into the Character
he did at Fantastic work in my opinion he sould get nominated for that role too
He was awesome in this movie as well as "The Light Between Oceans". So handsome too.
He also played a great Magneto as well
You know his a good actor when you forget they're acting and cuss them out haha
Love Michael Fassbender!!! So handsome!
He played a role that should het nominated for the Acedemy Awards.
He was great!
I believe Fasbender and Lupita dated for like a year or something so they did like each other 🙂🙂
Honestly, I could watch Michael Fassbender talk about anything, even a disturbing element such as slavery. He is so Glorious.......SIGH...........................
There’s a time and place love 😐
How kind and handsome he is in real life
When I heard this interview and read the comments below I was like Wow this man is whipping the skin off a girl and folks are like - yeah he is intellectualizing his love for that girl :)
I feel that always had that veil when it coming to talk about slavery and race, i mean like for black people there is this "evil" and "hate" on dark skin and for white people there is this "guilt" and "must respect" on dark skin, we just never really try to argue about those peoples who lived that era as human beings, it always come to skin color or "racial" issues through time. This film was spectacular because of that discussion it brings about people being enslaved and why other people were enslaving them.
Michael Fassbender played the f out of this role , Edwin Epps is a sick, wicked devil!
Michael was amazing in this such an amazing actor he is such a great bad guy
one of the GOAT's is M Fassbender
Μy Fassy... gosh he´s adorable!
I missed him...
I lost all my emotions in this dam movie.....I watched it once before and I knew what it was about but I cant recall or couldn't recall ,my reaction....so I'm guessing I blocked it out......but rewatching it I have never felt such pain my my entire body before I wanted to cry out cause of all that emotion I felt I could not stop crying....I have cried in movies before that are deep but this one hit too many notes. I just can't imagine how a human being could treat another in such a way....whether they be black blue green or purple...heck everything in this life teaches us, the world, the universe us created with diversity...so how could you do something so detestable just because one's is a few shade darker than you, under all that pigmentation we are no more or less then each other.
So Fassbender no longer needs to audition for McQueen - that's gotta be nice, but nerve wrecking too cuz last thing you want to do is disappoint the director.
He only auditioned for Hunger. He was offered the role in Shame before they even had a script.
I wonder what its like around the craft services table between takes when they break for lunch......I know its just acting but still
lost soul my ass, he didnt have a soul
He was amazing imo.
I think he done a great job.
I compare Michael Fassbender's character and performance to Ralph Fiennes' Amon Goeth in Schindler's List
Same.
great actor
Is that how current day women who all the beaten up and murdered women by their husband, boyfriends should be called: love. OJ killed his wife and her boyfriend out of love. What strange world we are living in.
Michael's just making up excuses for his character. Edwin Epps was evil incarnate, there's no excusing that.
That's what actors always seem to say about their characters, no matter how evil they are: "ah, he ain't such a bad guy, just misunderstood and a product of his environment." I wonder if the actors who have portrayed Adolf Hitler or Josef Stalin ever said, "ah, Hitler/Stalin wasn't such a bad guy, he was just misunderstood and a product of his environment."
They /have/ to say that. As an actor you cannot approach your character in a judgemental manner. You have to evaluate all their flaws and their virtues in an equal measure.
An incredibly sexy! He was amazing in "Shame". And he also dated the black actress, I forget her name, who played Patsy. But he's now with the actress from his last film which also escapes me, but I enjoyed.
Bochanable actually
He dated the black actress from the movie shame not lupita because at the time this movie came out lupita was messing around with jared leto 😊
chileeee what?
Michael Fassbender and Lupita Nyongo only dated on and off briefly during the filming and press of 12 years a slave but never actually had a serious relationship.
hes amazing
So many fighting. You guys will never get it if you look at them in modern lens. It needs to be seen the way they did. It was evil and dark, but he loved Patsey. He hated himself for loving what he called lowly property.
i like him
If a slave owner was in love he may not have wanted her to be tortured… I felt he was obsessed with his power and the fact he could rape and torture his property as brutally as he pleased. That’s not love by any means. 🤦🏽♀️
Wonder how the descendants of Epps feel watching this
So happy I’m not the only one who had this thought
I thought the same thing! I would be absolutely mortified if I found out I was a descendant of his.
@@beccalowry6437 to be fair just because somebodies ancestor was a monster places no blame on them but that Epps was a thoroughly evil man.
He's so darn handsome! Goshhh.
"...In 2010, Fassbender's then ex-girlfriend, Sunawin Andrews, filed a restraining order against him in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleging that he "threw me over a chair breaking my nose" in 2009, and that he had also dragged her alongside his car, injuring her ankle and knee, as well as causing her to burst an ovarian cyst.[72] The Daily Beast repeated the allegations, to which Fassbender had not publicly responded, in 2018 in the wake of the Me Too movement.[73]
Although he prefers to keep his personal life private,[74] Fassbender stated in a 2012 interview in GQ that he was seeing actress Nicole Beharie "as much as possible", after they worked together on the movie Shame.[75] In December 2014, he began dating Swedish actress Alicia Vikander, whom he met on the set of The Light Between Oceans.[76][77] The two married in a private ceremony on 14 October 2017 in Ibiza, Spain.[78] As of 2017, they reside in Lisbon, Portugal..."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Fassbender
It was in you
I believe he loved patsey but didn’t want to. He was probably jealous of mr and Mrs Shaw but didn’t wanna sacrifice his reputation
Love ? He doesn’t seem to understand his character ? He is obsessed with her
‘He doesn’t seem to understand his character’ ??....well, okay then 🙄
this dude had me in tears this movie, he was hilarious
Heureusement que dans la vie michael vous netes pas un demon enfin on soufle de vous voir different 👍👍👍👍
Was is love, or lust or power?
Future Child those things are not mutually exclusive. And love and lust can generate the other like magnetism and electricity generate each other.
Future Child infatuation
His is very attractive 😍 and he has a accent
He is fine ash
Pobres actores que interpretan personajes psicópatas, no es suficiente con que desempeñen su rol si no que también con estas preguntas tienen que de alguna manera "conectar" con el personaje, Michael Fassbender ni siquiera sabía cómo explicar el comportamiento de ese demonio Epps, se enredó tanto que terminó mencionando una historia de amor con Patsey lo cual es imposible en la película nunca mostró un buen sentimiento por ella.
Epps did NOT “love” Patsey.
Lust..not love
So the master was in love with Patsey?!
Not LOVE, more like Lust!
He actually dates black women in real life. Has a thing for them 😁
JD That has nothing to do with the comment... plus he married a white Swede woman.
@@nenaj1 Well over a year ago he got married to a white woman so, I think he doesn't necessarily have a thing for black women, but has dated a few, so that means rather, he sees and likes people based on who they are and probably if they have good bodies lol instead of not dating or dating someone on only the colour of their skin. Which is what everyone should do. If you like it, go after it.
@@personanongratano1
black and white races are social constructs any way
no scientific basis for them
they are made up out of ignorance of the diversity of human beings
975
I didn’t even really he played this role!
stelios now!!!
Y’all not gonna wounded who said the N word for him
Double Talk!That shit was Evil!
Its beautiful when the actor becomes the role like he did, thats a truly talanted actor!! He should have gotten an Oscar for this role.He and Christian Bale are the best out there ,Pitt is good too. Remember Clive Standen playing Rollo in Vikings, he was outstanding, best actor in the whole series, he WAS Rollo
He played that character so well that i would whoop the pink outta him if i ever saw him
he s so hot
Not love
love affair??????????????????????????What,
I don't even like this dude so he must be a great actor LOL
I don't think love was the right word for what peps had for patsey
Mire Lay how would you know he’s the one playing the role so has the best understanding
Love affair, not! Epps was a sadistic individual! I’m shocked that this man is being an apologist for the character. He demonstrates the disconnect of Whites regarding the Black experience then and today.
If you heard him at the beginning, he said that as an actor he needed to not view his character as evil in order to be able to play the character without feeling blocked or guilty. Otherwise this movie would not have been made well. People think that acting is easy. It really isnt. To play pedophiles, animal killers, serial killers, slave owners. That shit is hard. The guy who played the killer in lovely bones said he had a hard time portraying the character. But he did a damn good job.
Also since its his character that he lived with and had to portray for a year or more, its how he sees epps relationship with the girl. Although you see it as hateful and not a love affair, what he is saying is " epps was the one who saw it like that. Epps saw it as a love affair. Thats how sick he was."
Hes only describing it as his character saw it. Because in reality alot of abusers do see it as a love affair. And epps sadistic ass saw it like that.
Maida Rojas ~ This is a different perspective. Even so, he referred to the character “love affair/love for” as an observation, not as Epps would have felt. He might have misspoke or misarticulated himself.
Epps was my favorite! Epps was the man.
I personally think Tom Hiddleston would've been good in this movie
Zyzor omg kids!
Very evil
Rape and beating somone is not love and he's insecure
Of course he's fucking English you wouldn't get a white American to drag his own people's history though the mud like this fucker. Lets get that Hunter S Thompson snuff film where they raped, murdered, and cannibalized a young boy to show you what these Hollywood fucks are into.
Hollywood is run by literal Satan worshipers
I hate him even he was acting 😒 racist
If his acting made u hate him so much ten that proves that he acted for and did his job to entertain u