The 34-year-old actor, whose chiseled good looks suggest the young Christopher Plummer, made his first splash a decade ago in the HBO series Band of Brothers, and played the Spartan warrior Stelios in 300. (READ Jessica Winter on her encounter with Michael Fassbender) That makes Fassbender the ultimate X-Man. Shame is not pornographic, but this vividly clinical depiction of satyriasis is explicit enough to land the film an NC-17 rating, the American equivalent of the old, tawdry X. Director Steve McQueen, the visual artist whose first feature, Hunger, starred Fassbender as IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands, is just as remorseless in portraying the sex addiction of a Manhattan office worker. Michael Fassbender - the German-Irish Adonis of the art house, who also played the young Magneto in this summer’s X-Men: First Class - is on full-frontal display in the grinding sex drama Shame.
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