Michael Fassbender says his family is his priority now after pouring all of his energy into his acting career for the last few years. His new movie Next Goal Wins is in cinemas Boxing Day.
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00:00 You've got this film coming out and The Killer at the same time.
00:03 And I read your Wikipedia and it was like,
00:05 "Oh, you've been on a hiatus," which sounds...
00:08 I know you've been driving and producing and all sorts in between.
00:11 Does this feel like coming back from a longer break
00:14 or is this just a natural part of...
00:17 I know it definitely feels like coming back,
00:19 having not had anything out since, I think, 2018.
00:24 I think that was Dark Phoenix was the last one, maybe. I'm not sure.
00:28 It was, you know...
00:31 I definitely wanted to stop when I did stop
00:34 and then getting into the racing.
00:36 And it wasn't necessarily a hiatus from acting,
00:39 it's just when I'm racing, I can't get in short to act.
00:43 You know what I mean? For the obvious reasons.
00:45 So, you know, racing season would start beginning of April and end of October.
00:50 So whatever would come into that short time frame,
00:54 that's what I could work on. And this was one of them.
00:56 I literally finished a race in Portimao in Portugal
01:00 and then got on a plane, flew straight out for this.
01:04 So it just sort of worked out like that.
01:06 And to do the racing, to give it a proper go,
01:09 I felt like five years is the minimum you can do anything
01:13 and give it a decent sort of...
01:15 Unless you're Kaimana and she just walks on a film set,
01:18 nails it straight away. Frustrating.
01:23 Just to follow up on that then,
01:25 with your projects going forward,
01:27 do you feel like you're being more picky about them?
01:29 Because obviously you've done the X-Men and Assassin's Creed
01:32 and all those big things.
01:33 And now it feels like the killer's a more personal drama.
01:37 It feels smaller but still big and different.
01:40 Do you think your approach to choosing projects has changed?
01:43 Yeah, for sure it has.
01:44 Because before I was doing three films a year,
01:47 my career was everything and I was very focused on it
01:50 in quite a sort of singular way.
01:55 Now I've got a family, so that's my priority.
01:59 If I can then work with great filmmakers,
02:02 that's basically the goal.
02:03 Find a project, one a year.
02:06 And then also that it falls in line with my wife.
02:10 When she does a job, I want to be at home with our son.
02:13 And then vice versa, when I'm working, she can be there.
02:17 So it's just working that balance.
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