Like we needed further proof. Just hearing the reports yesterday was bad enough, but now we have photo evidence that Michael Fassbender is back to slipping his gorgeous Fassdong into Zoe Kravitz. These are some photos that just became available at WENN – they’re from two nights ago, or really, very early yesterday morning. Zoe and Michael in Toronto, Michael with the sexy wolf grin and Zoe with the “Yeah, I’m hittin’ this” face. UGH. A columnist for The National Post also notes that Zoe and Michael were together all night, writing, “By all the prevailing evidence, he managed, making easy rounds with his girlfriend, actress and rockerspawn Zoë Kravitz, here at the fest-tailored Vitamin Water Lounge in the Burroughes Building.” There’s also some stuff about Fassie’s handshake (“Not too soft, but not too suspiciously bone-crushing, either.”) and his manner (“Ballsy smile. Deadly eye-meet.”). Why isn’t he mine?

There’s also a new interview with Michael in the LAT, for Shame. Descriptions of this film are making me so hot. I know that’s not the intention, but you can’t tell me that Fassie is naked and engaging in sex acts for two hours without me visualizing it in explicit detail:

If you think it’s awkward watching a fictional character act out various twisted sexual fantasies for two hours, try spending weeks performing them in front of strangers. That was the task faced by Michael Fassbender, the actor who plays the sex-addicted Brandon, in shooting “Shame,” Steve McQueen’s acclaimed and controversial new feature.

“It was pretty uncomfortable and sort of embarrassing to get naked or what-not in front of a crew of people,” the Irish actor, who appears in full-frontal nudity, told reporters Monday afternoon at the Toronto Film Festival after the movie premiered for the public Sunday night. “But you have to get over it, really, and get on with it. I knew what I was getting into.”

What the audience is getting into is a visceral portrayal of a 30-ish upper-middle-class New York man who has a propensity for hard-core Internet porn, public sexual encounters with strangers and various forms of X-rated kinkiness. Brandon isn’t capable in his sex life of an emotional relationship; the idea of human connection, let alone commitment, frightens him (in one scene so much so that he turns away from his partner, sends her home and immediately calls a prostitute).

Adding another layer to Brandon’s story is the surprise appearance of his sister (Carey Mulligan, also showing up in one scene in full-frontal), a kind of drifter chanteuse with whom Brendan has a complicated relationship, emotionally and perhaps otherwise. Fassbender, who also stars in this fall’s sexually themed psychoanalysis drama “A Dangerous Method” as Carl Jung, won an acting prize at the Venice Film Festival this weekend for “Shame.”

Despite the overt sexuality, Fassbender said the movie is in many ways a critique of our hyper-sexed era. “Everywhere you go, sex is being sold to you in one way or another,” he said, “whether you’re buying a soda or a breakfast cereal.”

There are many questions about the commercial release of the film. Although it’s bound to be a conversation piece and even a critical darling, questions over audience and marketing plans abound.

For one thing, will studio Fox Searchlight, the Rupert Murdoch-owned art-house division that bought the movie last week and will likely bring it out in December, release it as an NC-17 film or go unrated? There are advantages and drawbacks to both. (And no, there’s no way to recut the movie so that it can earn an “R.” The film would become a short.)

Fassbender said he hopes those challenges would turn into a selling point in their own right. “This film is being made contrary to a lot of the films out there,” he said, “[It’s] for an intelligent, brave audience that can participate instead of just eating popcorn and being entertained.”

[From The Los Angeles Times]

Yeah, just tell me where to go, and I’ll show up for this film. I know I’m already going to buy the DVD, and that it will be well-worn.

Also: this is just a funny sidenote: Jane Eyre is about to come out in England, so Fassie has been doing interviews to support that film too. He compared Jane Eyre to Twilight! Ridiculous. Michael says, “When you’re reading Jane Eyre he’s like ‘Sit down, sit down sit down.’ These women seemed to enjoy the torture of the relationships but in this story there is the redemption at the end. I’ve said before, maybe I’m wrong, the films like the Twilight Saga have the same sort of structure, like a love that can never exist, women seem to go crazy for these sorts of things.” A love that can never exist? DAMN IT. Michael, you’re just torturing me now.

Photos courtesy of WENN.