Consider this your preview of our Hot Guy Thanksgiving, which will be coming up later today. I’m only doing this post because I am absolutely incapable of NOT publishing new Michael Fassbender photos. We only have two new ones at the moment – Fassie is in Paris, and last night was the Paris premiere of Shame. Fassie looks gorgeous, doesn’t he? And if your answer is “no” – just move along. Don’t even bother to leave a comment along the lines of “His teeth are gross, he’s a terrible person!” If you want blazing white teeth, there are also new photos of Shane Warne. Which would you rather, seriously?

Fassie has a wonderful new interview in New York Magazine where he talks about sex SEX SEX and dongs and spanking and eating. GAH. I love him. You can read the full piece here, and here are some highlights:

In A Dangerous Method, the sex is transgressive, and yet it’s essentially a positive outlet for these characters that lets them be who they actually are. In Shame, the sex is transgressive, but it’s presented as your character’s fatal flaw. How do you reconcile the different attitudes toward sex in each film?
With Jung and Sabina, there’s an element there that he’s really fulfilling her desires by spanking her. I think that he sort of gets off on it because she’s getting off on it. He’s turned on by her getting turned on. The thing is that Jung is a very sensual character, and I wanted to have that within him, but how do I get that across in his personality? Obviously, there’s the sex scenes, but I wanted to show that throughout the film, so I made him somebody who enjoys his food quite a lot and he’s always eating, whether it be biscuits, cake, or all these big portions at Freud’s place. Brandon in Shame is someone who doesn’t eat — I think we seem him eat once in the movie, and it’s just Chinese food while he’s surfing through Internet porn. It’s just purely fuel, and he doesn’t get any enjoyment from it. His senses aren’t alive and awakened like Jung’s are, and the same can be said for his sex life. He has the urge and compulsion to get involved with people, but without any emotional content, and without any sort of real pleasure being taken from it, you know?

Between your scenes with Keira in A Dangerous Method and all your love scenes with the actresses in Shame, you’ve now had to simulate sex more in the past two years than many actors do in their whole careers.
Yeah, I’m gonna bring out a DVD, and it’ll be my version of Michael Caine’s acting DVD. “Michael Fassbender teaches you how to simulate sex!” [Laughs.]

What have you learned about shooting those scenes? How do you make the actresses comfortable? Are you like, “Listen, I’ve done this before … “
[Wild laughter.] “I’ve done this before! Oh, don’t worry!” But listen, all joking aside, it’s really uncomfortable. It is kind of a stressful thing, to he honest. Thankfully, I’ve had fantastic partners to be working with, all the female leads or even the women with smaller parts have been great. But the most important thing is to say, “Let’s talk about this.” [Singing.] Let’s talk about sex, baby … [Laughs.] But no, you have to say, “What lines do you have that you don’t want me to cross? Do you mind if I touch your breasts? Do you not want me to do that? Can I kiss your breasts? Just so you know, I’m not taking advantage here and taking the piss out of this scenario. You let me know what boundaries you’re comfortable working within.” And of course Steve and David, these are brilliant men, and they’re not making p–n films. It’s there for the story, and it’s not exploitative. Yeah, you tell jokes on set and try to make things as relaxed as possible, because to be honest, you want to get in there and go for it immediately. Then it’s going to be over quicker!

When you set those rules, then you can just go in there and get it done.
Yeah, you don’t want it to get to “take fifteen.”

On Shame getting an NC-17 rating: “I don’t even think about those guys [the ratings board], man, to be honest with you. I think it’s good. People might go see it because it’s NC-17; seems like it’s working in reverse to what they’re trying to do. But yeah, I don’t understand it, and it’s not in my job description. It’s all good publicity, man. News is news. But like you said, I think it’s a very confusing message to be sending out as a censorship board. It’s like, “Oh, there’s a penis in this film?” Yeah, and some of us have them and most of the rest have seen them, so what’s the big deal? I don’t understand, does that mean that sex is a dirty thing, something that needs to be kept behind closed doors. And as you said, I don’t understand their relationship between sex and violence. You can have someone’s head cut off in the most gruesome way or have someone get riddled with a thousand bullets, but having sex … I don’t know. It seems so bizarre to me.

And nowadays, there’s so much sexually explicit material online that the MPAA seems even more backwards.
I thought, What is it, 2011? Sometimes I even think that the films back in the eighties were more experimental and risqué. We’ve kind of gotten very conventional again, which I find a bit scary.

Cable TV shows like True Blood are filled with sex and nudity, and yet movies seem to be shying away from it.
To be honest with you again, I think it’s the idea of male frontal nudity. It just baffles me: Women can parade around naked all the time, but the guy conveniently has his pants on. I remember my mom always complaining about that to me, saying, “This is such bulls–t, it’s always the women who are naked” … so I did this one for you, Mom! [Laughs.]

[From New York Magazine]

God, I even love how much he talks about his mother. Is that wrong? He’s a mama’s boy, but I kind of love it. I’d rather a dude have a great relationship with his mom than be with a dude who has massive mother issues.

Would you like to hear Fassie talk about dongs some more? MTV’s Josh Horowitz sat down with Fassie to play “Name That Dong” – and the results were hilarious.

And here’s Rolling Stone’s video from their recent Fassie photo shoot – this is just Fassbender Pr0n.

Photos courtesy of WENN.