Michael Fassbender: "I wanted to be a heavy metal guitarist"

Michael Fassbender is stepping back into the public eye, embracing his role as a CIA spy in the second season of "The Agency" on Paramount+. The 49-year-old actor, who had previously focused on family and car racing, recently premiered his film "Hope" in Cannes.

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I have definitely started looking for spies.

Fassbender admits that playing a spy has made him more aware of his surroundings, leading him to observe people more closely and even speculate about potential spies in cities like Vienna and Addis Ababa. However, he acknowledges that the life of a real agent is demanding, requiring significant sacrifices and personal transformation.

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No, that's a pretty thankless job. You come out of the job as a completely different person than you went in because it demands so much from you and you have to make sacrifices.

Despite the long hours and intensity of filming, Fassbender expresses gratitude for his career, which he loves. He contrasts the pressures of television production, with its tight schedules, to the more relaxed pace of filmmaking. He finds the experience of acting, which he describes as

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No, I'm just grateful. After all, I get to work in a job that I love. And with such outstanding colleagues.