Michael Fassbender says film audiences can be intelligent

With Shame coming to cinemas in the coming weeks, sought after star Michael Fassbender has insisted that the film going audience can be intelligent.
Speaking to the Los Angeles Times the Prometheus star says "I always think that there are intelligent filmgoing audiences out there, they can do the work, and they can fill in the blanks and participate.
And sometimes their imagination or that participation is much more interesting than what you might be able to express as an actor or a writer or a director."
His director Steve McQueen says that he wants his stars "to bring a little bit of themselves into the character" adding "I'm not interested in acting, acting is a certain thing, but they have to be present in the room. Of course it's acting. But it goes beyond a certain kind of illustration of a character. You have to break through a boundary."
While his leading lady Carey Mulligan sings McQueen's praises by adding that he is very supportive of his stars "He is like your biggest cheerleader, he saw everything as a dance. Or he'd come in and give some football analogy, 'It's like it's half-time and you're 4-nil up, but we could be 8-nil up. I know we can!' Just like insane enthusiasm."
Shame comes to cinemas on January 13 and marks the second collaboration between Fassbender and McQueen, they will next join forces on Twelve Years a Slave which comes to cinemas in 2013.
SHAME IS OUT ON JANUARY 13