After a four-year hiatus from the big screen, Michael Fassbender is back with not one, but two movies that have been released this Fall. The first film was David Fincher's hitman thriller The Killer where he played a devoted assassin with an affinity for The Smiths, who goes to war with his employers after a hit goes wrong. The second film is Taika Waititi's sports comedy Next Goal Wins, where he plays a hot-headed Dutch-American soccer coach who is forced to coach the American Samoa international team, known as one of the weakest soccer teams in the world.
While working with Fincher seems like a natural fit for Fassbender, having worked with auteurs such as Ridley Scott, Danny Boyle, and Steve McQueen, his collaboration with Waititi finds him venturing into new territory: the world of comedy. The film finds Fassbender teaming up with non-binary actor Kaimana, in their first film role, and their character's complicated relationship becomes the beating heart of Next Goal Wins.
With the SAG-AFTRA strike coming to an end, we were lucky enough to sit down and talk with Fassbender and Kaimana about seeing the movie for the first time and the joys of working with a filmmaker like Taika Waititi. We also ask Fassbender about the proper viewing order for a Barbenheimer-style double feature of The Killer and Next Goal Wins.
Check it out in this interview!
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