Michael Fassbender’s recipe for making a robot

Michael Fass­bender plays a robot in the upcom­ing film Pro­meth­eus, a pre­quel to the Alien tri­logy. Sur­pris­ingly Fass­bender doesn’t take off his clothes in this one as the robot doesn’t have any nude scenes.

TIME magazine asked him what it takes to play a robot:

The inspir­a­tion we used was David Bowie and The Man Who Fell to Earth, and for films there were the rep­lic­ants in Blade Run­ner. Greg Lou­ganis, in terms of phys­ic­al­ity. Lawrence of Ara­bia of course, and Peter O’Toole as Lawrence, and Dirk Bog­arde. They were the ingredients.

Photo: Peter O’Toole + Dirk Bog­arde + Rut­ger Hauer in Blade Run­ner + David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth + Greg Lou­ganis = Michael Fass­bender as David in Prometheus

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