Michael Fassbender Explains His Choice Of Accent For X-Men: First Class' Magneto!

His accent was fine.
Ian McKellans was all over the place in the previous movies and no one mentions that.
@Argo
Couldn't be arsed to read your comment/tirade,sorry.Plus I hate it when people refer to themselves in the third person.

Accent was fine, I'll deal with an accent if it means a GREAT MOVIE. Watched it last night, loved it. They did a phenomenol job...worth seeing again next weekend. Magneto was FINALLY done some real justice. He has the ability to become the menace that he appears to be but you see the humanity and you see some of that caring that McKellan and Stewart have the old movies. I'm treating this as more the Xavier Magneto origin movie more than First Class. Anyone that hasn't seen it needs to.

HE DID A DAMN GOOD JOB.

he did do a great job, he was the best thing in the movie, he and prof x. rest can suck a fart out of my ass

I think he did a fine job with the accents.

@bohemiben: good count; I think we can safely assume he spoke German in the concentration camps (I highly doubt it was "English"). And more over, since he's of Jewish descent, he probably knows, at the very least, rudimentary Hebrew. Talk about multi-lingual.

I'd like a fraction of that please.

@Weeton:
Actually he didn't talk german in the concentration camps, sure Erik Lensherr did, but it was while he was much much younger, hence a younger actor named Bill Millner spoke german during that scene.
But still the count leaves Fassbender at 4 languages that he spoke in the movie fluently. Pretty empressive I may say.
And let's not forget Kevin Bacon as Shaw he spoke 3 languages: german, english and russian.

I really like how this movie was kind of like an international espionage 007-inspired piece of period film :)

Yes, well we don't know where Magneto was between 1944 and 1962, so he could have lived in Ireland for all we know. Yes, his Irish accent did come back but his performance was outstanding.

As for all this about the film rights. I can't see Fox letting go, they have The Wolverine and Deadpool films planned, and an X4/X5 duology has been mentioned by Lauren Shuler Donner. So it doesn't sound like they are giving up anytime soon.

Just go and see this film. It has Singer back on board, the Kick-Ass director directing it, and a great cast. If you don't support the good stuff, then they'll hire Wreck Hackner again and we'll get supercrap films like X3. We may as well help them to continue giving us good movies, where Vaughn and Singer have creative control...

Quit crying like kids and get to the frickin cinema so at least we get quality movies, even if you'd rather Marvel had them. Even if they get back to Marvel, when would Marvel Studios be able to get an X-Men film made? They have their hands full with Avengers, Iron Man 3, Doctor Strange, Black Panther, Iron Fist and all that stuff...

Micheal Fassbender & James McAvoy blew my mind in this movie. Bring on the sequel.

@ TheSchemer

Like I said before, the reason why Vaughn and Fox have not pubicly said that this is a ''pure'' reboot is because it seems to me that the 2 parts are not on the same wavelength as far as the franchise should go. I'm fairly confident that in Vaughn's mind this should be and probably IS a reboot but in the other hand, I think Fox just doesn't want to reboot the franchise because they think seeing the respectable numbers that X3 did at the BO that the franchise continuity still has something left it. I, for one, think they are wrong because you cannot go onto that franchise continuity without Professor X and the 2 main X-men (Cyclops and Jean). Maybe without 2 of them but not without the 3 most important faces of the X-Men. So I think they made kind of an agreement that they would called XMFC a prequel/reboot and should the movie be a big success and revive the franchise, Vaughn could make whatever he wants to the X-Men. I don't know if XMFC will thrive at the BO but I just know that I enjoyed it way more than any of the 4 previous movies and that It deserves at least a sequel.

So my hope lies on the perspective that should Vaughn gain full control on the franchise, he would get the rest of the original first class (Cyclops, Jean, Angel, etc...) right in one of its possible sequels unlike Singer and that the movies would be taken with a more serious approach.

For a sequel, I would like vaughn to introduce the step-brother of Charles Xavier, Juggernaut as one of the main villains and that they make him an unstoppable force like he is in the comics and Apocalypse for a third should we ever get there.

Accent was fine.

By far the coolest scene was Magneto levitating Shaw out of the submarine. Total badassery.

His voice was fine, he is an awesome dude.

There are a lot of haters on this site for Superhero movies.Most of you are too young to appreciate the concept when it wasn't possible or probable for studios to make these movies.Be EXCITED that you live in a time where you can see these films at all.X-MEN FIRST CLASS is a mind bogglingly,insanely incredible OFF THE SCALES movie!If you don"t think was one of the greatest movies ever made then you are NOT and NEVER WERE a comic book fan.X-MEN RULE!!!!!

Um, what was his accent SUPPOSED to be?

thingrock4 Thanks. He's the Thirst Aveneger.