Michael Fassbender believes that director Steve McQueen changed his life.
The actor and director reunite for their new project Shame. for which Fassbender has just won Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival.
The movie comes three years after Hunger made a huge impact for both as they told the story of Bobby Sands who went on hunger strike in 1981.
And Fassbender credits McQueen and this movie for changing everything.
Speaking to the Press Association the actor said: "Steve changed my life. It's really as simple as that.
"When he gave me the opportunity to work with him in Hunger and show some sort of capability or possibility in terms of playing a leading man, at a time when the recession was just around the corner... I got very lucky."
Shame is not the only movie that Fassbender had at the Venice Film Festival as A Dangerous Method, which is directed by David Cronenberg was also on show.
Shame is released 13th January 2012.
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