X-Men Magneto star Michael Fassbender on his 'crazy' rise to fame and the fuss over his nudity in Shame

ALTHOUGH not among the nominations for tonight's Oscars, Michael Fassbender says he is determined to enjoy every moment of his success and has described his rise to fame as "crazy."

Over the past couple of years, the Irish-German actor has showed a fondness for dynamic but complicated characters from Lt Archie Hicox in Inglourious Basterds, to Magneto in X-Men: First Class and Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre.

And 2012 is proving no different. Following Steve McQueen's sex addiction drama Shame, Fassbender appeared in Steven Soderbergh's espionage thriller Haywire, and then David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method, in which he plays Carl Jung opposite Viggo Mortensen's Sigmund Freud.

Beyond that, he'll star in Ridley Scott's Alien-inspired Prometheus before reuniting with McQueen for a third time on Twelve Years A Slave, alongside Brad Pitt. And then there's another X-Men adventure in the pipeline along with a film featuring Irish mythological hero Cuchulainn.

Fassbender says he feels he's finally having a 'moment' and is determined to enjoy it, while ensuring it's not fleeting.

"I don't want to spend too much time thinking about the things I've done, or linger in the past. I can find that depressing," he said. "The main thing is thinking about what I can do next and making sure I do a good job."

He adds: "This whole experience is crazy. When I decided this was what I wanted to do, this was the situation I dreamed about being in. It's nuts."

The 34-year-old is certainly putting his heart into it. A staunch supporter of method acting, Michael Fassbender dropped to just nine stone to play Bobby Sands in the 2008 biopic of the IRA terrorist's hunger strike.

The film, Hunger, was feted at festivals across the world and placed Fassbender firmly on the map. But while he endured physical extremes for that movie, the 34-year-old reveals that Shame was mentally distressing.

"I had to lose weight for Hunger, but I had a timetable to stick to. So it was...

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[Source: Coventry Telegraph - The Geek Files]