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Michael Fassbender: ‘You can learn a lot when working with kids’

The actor has played a father-figure multiple times in films

Michael Fassbender has admitted that he has learnt a lot from working with kids.

The actor has no children of his own but has played a father-figure in multiple films, such as Steve Jobs, X-Men, The Light Between The Oceans and Trespass Against Us.

“You can learn a lot from working with kids, that sort of magic element, just the enjoyment of creating a imaginary world,” he said.

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The Kerry native revealed that children are “magical” while improvising compared to their rigidness while sticking to a script.

“I always found with them when they have to adhere to a script, they can sometimes tense up or freeze up or be quite rigid, but when they’re improvising they’re magical,” he told Cover Media Group.

“[It’s] sort of like a stream of consciousness just comes flowing out of them and they’ve got such freedom in their imagination and it’s actually quite hard to keep up with them and be quick-witted to have a response to them.”

Michael’s latest film, Trespass Against Us, hits Irish cinemas nationwide on the 3rd of March this year.

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