Four years ago, Apple fans were mourning the death of Steve Jobs. Today he was reborn at the cinema in the guise of Michael Fassbender in one of the most exciting films of the early 2016. Exclusively for GQ, the actor tells how he slipped into the hard disk of the computer genius.
The first scene of Steve Jobs hits hard: in the auditorium where he is about to launch the Macintosh, Apple’s creator is harassing his staff so that the pc, which stubbornly remains silent, manages to say “hello” . Stare, surgical gesture, grimace of impatience … This is how Steve Jobs was when he was 30. A man obsessed with its objective, that is about to change the world by making computers our best friends, and did not really have time to wait for stragglers. “The whole universe was created in a week”, Jobs says to Andy Hertzfeld, a developer responsible for the Macintosh operating system, to criticize his lack of efficacy. “You will tell us how you did then,” the other replies. A month after the release of the film in the United States, and two months before its arrival in France, this replica, synthesizing the megalomaniac tendencies of the Apple’s messiah, is already cult. And it echoes the Homeric feat of Michael Fassbender, who himself took three months to make Steve Jobs revive. Already dubbed by Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-creator and brother/enemy of Jobs and likely candidate for the Oscar, his performance is all the more baffling considering nobody would have thought to him to play the role.
Magnetic and rigorous
Big, red, clear eyes … If Fassbender is one of the most beautiful male specimens we have ever approached, a detail, when we meet in London in the first promotional tour of the film, still troubles us: the German-Irish did not look anything like Steve Jobs. And he is the first to acknowledge it. “Christian Bale, he was perfect for the role. In fact I called him to tell him.” With his dark eyes and auburn strand, star of Dark Knight, first approached to embody Jobs (as well as Leonardo DiCaprio) Bale is undeniably physically the closest to the prophet of high-tech in his younger years. But after discovering the film, one can only rejoice that he let it go. Since his first two collaborations with his mentor Steve McQueen - Hunger, which reveals him in 2008, and especially Shame three years later, where he plays with overwhelming intensity a sex addict in the heart hole - we knew Michael Fassbender was able to give intense performances. With Steve Jobs, the 38 years’ old actor reaches his top: a insane magnetism and an impressive rigor, he delivers his best performance to date. A recreation rather than a portrait, whose strength lies precisely in the physical gap between him and the real Jobs.
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