Michael Fassbender does not like it when we refer to his well endowed nether regions which we became, collectively, pretty well acquainted with after the release of Shame. Well he doesn't mind it entirely (better than us referring to how small it is, right? He gets high fives from the likes of Charlize Theron, pats on the back from George Clooney, all for his impressively sized ding dong) but he dislikes the current double standard nature of celebrity culture: if he were a woman, there would be outrage, and it would be considered a form of sexual harrassment to refer on a daily basis to her enormous breasts or lovel (?) vagina.
He's right. The media absolutely do have double standards, and he is objectified. Is it fair? Probably not. Perhaps we need to reconsider our line of thought. In a recent interview with Elle Magazine, Fassy explains how the inevitable penis chats were unavoidable, post Shame: "I can’t start saying, 'Wait a second there is more about the film than my d**k; it's one scene and it doesn't go on for very long."
But he's not all that keen on it as it does distract somewhat from his very impressive performance: "It wouldn't be acceptable it would be seen as sexual harassment, people saying [to an actress], 'Your vagina …' You know?"
When probed about what it was like to get down to his birthday suit, the man who we claim as our own revealed: "I'm insecure, of course I am. But that was just a matter of me going, OK and just getting naked."