Michael Fassbender speaking to self during initial negotiations: “I’ve kind of fallen into a career ditch — I know that. And I have to do something. Maybe stop glaring and brooding and looking haunted and pissed off. Maybe exude something looser and more conventionally romantic…more woman-friendly.
“Maybe making a Nancy Meyers film will work and maybe it won’t, but I should at least give it a shot. I need to smile and settle in and become Mr. Smoothie. Not Mr. Happy — that has a sexual connotation that I don’t need to get into after Shame — but Mr. Slip Slidey, and I don’t mean that in a Paul Simon sense. But not in a predatory sense either. Smooth and accomodating.”
