Michael Fassbender beams about his experience on the set of Prometheus

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

It’s pretty damn refreshing to a see an actor as genuinely geeked up about a film as we are…

Enter Michael Fassbender (above), who, while only three weeks into shooting PROMETHEUS for Ridley Scott, is bubbling with enthusiasm over his experience. Scope out what he told the L.A. Times this week:

“I walk on the set and I feel like I’m walking on a spaceship. It’s breathtaking. All the various panels and screens and it’s just dealing with a top-notch art department and carpenters and the riggers and everything that goes into putting that together. It’s just, well, breathtaking, all of it.”

About his specific role, Fassbender offered this:

“I feel I’ve got it at my fingertips, it’s there but challenging and, you know, I’m excited. I’ve got a few ideas that I’m running with and I think I’ve got a grasp on it but it’s always something that, organically, moving on its own course. I’m having a lot of fun with it. There’s a lot of interesting quirks and niches to him and I’m having a lot of fun exploring it.”

And regarding the opportunity to collaborate with the legendary Ridley Scott:

“It’s great. He’s just so precise and fun and mischievous and just full of interesting and quirky ideas for the character. They come to you in passing but then he lets you run with it and there’s a lot of freedom there. I’m really just enjoying it and everything in general, the whole crew is so veteran and talented from all departments down, the camera, wardrobe, makeup, props, the works — you’ve got the cream of the crop and it’s an honor just to be allowed to be part of it.”

Apparently not blowing smoke above, Michael professed his love for all things BLADE RUNNER:

“It’s my favorite movie. I just love that movie. And really I love all the different versions, I just don’t care, I love that world and whatever you want to take from it you can take from it, nothing is fore-set in any way. I love that it’s a very feasible futuristic place, and again that quality that you’re in a thriller but you don’t know it. There’s always something at play and everyone has an agenda but none of it is really openly expressed.”

PROMETHEUS – also starring Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron (below), Idris Alba, Logan Marshall-Green, Rafe Spall, Sean Harris and Kate Dickie – opens June 8th, 2012.