Michael Fassbender Was Kicked Out Of A Party For Smoking

There are few celebrities who do not hesitate to admit that they smoke cigarettes. 

One such actor is Michael Fassbender. He is a well-known Irish actor who has received a number of honors, including nominations for two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. 

He is also one of the critically acclaimed actors who has made it to the list of Ireland’s greatest film actors. Since the beginning of his career, Fassbender has been smoking cigarettes.

He has not hesitated to show his smoking behavior — be it while giving interviews or while enjoying after parties. In fact, because of his smoking, he was kicked out of his own movie’s after-party back in 2012.

Michael Fassbender was kicked out for smoking

As said before, Fassbender does not shy away from smoking. In fact, he rolls his own cigarettes.

While sitting down with Elle in 2015, Fassbender asked the writer, Holly Millae, if she would want a smoke. The writer wrote, “Outside in the cool air, Fassbender produces a tobacco pouch and hand-rolls a cigarette with the speed and skill of a truant, licking the seal, offering it up.”

It looks like the actor has had a habit of having a smoke quite often. In 2012, he was kicked out of his own movie’s after-party.

Fassbender was asked to leave the London after-party for his own film, A Dangerous Method, after smoking a cigarette indoors. According to The Sun (via Page Six), Fassbender was acting inappropriately during a party following his film’s UK premiere, which was held at London’s Mayfair restaurant. 

According to the publication, Fassbender’s co-stars, Keira Knightley and Viggo Mortensen, looked uneasy about his behavior. During the evening, photos show Fassbender boisterously playing the piano and giggling excessively. 

Another shows him switching the camera off and placing his hand over the lens of another photographer’s camera. Other photos reveal Fassbender beaming broadly while dancing with a hesitant Mortensen, while another shot shows a friend piggybacking Fassbender.

Michael Fassbender smoking a cigarette while riding a vintage car on his way to the premiere of ‘X-Men: First Class.’ (Source: Twitter)

However, it was him lighting a smoke that broke the camel’s back.

“Michael was politely asked to leave. He was in good spirits but it was becoming a bit of a handful for the other guests,” a source told the tabloid. “He was grabbing his co-stars and waltzing around the room with them. He lit a cigarette indoors and that was the point it had gone too far.”

Fassbender made no statements regarding his smoking and getting kicked out of the party. 

Michael Fassbender’s early life and career

Fassbender was born on April 2, 1977, in Heidelberg, West Germany, to Irish mother Adele and German father Josef. He has an older sister named Catherine, who is a neuropsychologist at the MIND Institute in Sacramento, California.

According to family legend, his mother is the great-grandniece of Michael Collins, an Irish commander during the War of Independence. Fassbender’s parents transferred him to Killarney, Ireland, when he was two years old, to run the West End House, a restaurant where his father also worked as a chef. 

His parents picked Killarney for their children to grow up in the countryside, as opposed to the industrial setting of their former German home.

Fassbender was raised as a Catholic and served as an altar boy at his family’s church. He and his sister spent their summer vacation in Germany.

He went to Fossa National School outside of Killarney and St. Brendan’s College in Killarney. When he was 17, he decided he wanted to be an actor after being cast in a play. 

He left home at the age of 19 to study at the Drama Centre London. He dropped out of the Drama Centre in 1999 to tour with the Oxford Stage Company, performing the drama Three Sisters. 

He worked as a barman, postman, manual laborer, market researcher for Royal Mail, and Dell employee before landing a permanent job as an actor. 

Fassbender made his feature film debut in the 2006 movie, 300. His early credits include HBO’s Band of Brothers and Sky One’s fantasy drama Hex. 

He rose to notoriety after playing IRA volunteer Bobby Sands in Hunger, for which he received a British Independent Film Award. Fish Tank, Inglourious Basterds, Jane Eyre, and A Dangerous Method were among his subsequent roles. 

Fassbender rose to prominence as mutant Holocaust survivor Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto in X-Men: First Class, X-Men: Days of Future Past, and X-Men: Apocalypse, as well as Androids David 8 and Walter One in Prometheus and Alien: Covenant. 

He was nominated for a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award for his performance as a sex addict in Steve McQueen’s thriller Shame. In 2013, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as slave owner Edwin Epps in 12 Years a Slave. 

In addition to The Counsellor, Frank, Macbeth, and Steve Jobs, he has been in several more films. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as the titular character in the latter. 

Following a brief hiatus, he appeared in the action thriller The Killer in 2023. 

Fassbender is currently working on one film, which is in post-production. He will appear in the full-length sequel to the 2015 short film Kung Fury starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and David Hasselhoff.

Fassbender has created a production business, Finn McCool Films, with screenwriter Ronan Bennett. Fassbender and Bennett are now working on a film about the mythical Irish hero C Chulainn. 

In March 2022, it was confirmed that Fassbender was executive producing The Kitchen, a dystopian drama for Netflix written by Daniel Kaluuya and Joe Murtagh. 

In March 2023, it was reported that Fassbender will feature in Na Hong-jin’s forthcoming thriller The Hope starring Alicia Vikander and Taylor Russell.

Apart from acting, Fassbender is also interested in motor racing. He debuted in motor racing with the Ferrari Challenge in 2017. As of 2023, he drives for Proton Competition in the European Le Mans Series. 

Talking about his personal life, he began dating Swedish actress Alicia Vikander, with whom he had previously collaborated on the film The Light Between Oceans, in December 2014. 

On October 14, 2017, they married in a private ceremony in Ibiza. They later relocated to Portugal, where they currently reside in Lisbon. They have a son, who was born in 2021.