Michael Fassbender Video Interview On ‘Jane Eyre,’ Mia Wasikowska

Michael Fassbender, the German-born, Irish-raised actor who caught the eye of audiences around the world for his role in Inglourious Basterds, stars in a film adaptation of Jane Eyre as Rochester with Mia Wasikowska. Having grown up with the story, Fassbender says he was intrigued by the complexity of the iconic literary character. “Both my sister and my mother were big fans of the book, so I sort of grew up with them talking about it quite a lot, so I thought, you know, I should take it on and see if I can sort of impress my mother and my sister or do justice to the role and then sort of reading it myself I really got into just the sort of complexity of it,” Fassbender told uInterview in an exclusive video interview. “Also, you know, it’s daring, it’s dangerous. Just the sort of idea of this history of this guy and what may have gone in this history and the fact that he’s carrying this history around with him all the time.”

Fassbender believes that the chemistry between him and Wasikowska gave him an advantage in his own acting job. “Sometimes you have to just pretend something else is there, but you know she’s sort of giving you so much and she’s coming up with her own things that you have to respond to,” he told uInterview. “Therefore you’re acting, but you’re also reacting to what she’s doing, so then you’re sort of making music, as opposed to sort of going, okay, I must now look like I have chemistry with her. I mean, either it’s there, or it’s not. I mean it’s not something that you can really sort of prepare for.”