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"Macbeth", "Steve Jobs" and "X-Men" actor Fassbender portrays
the fast-driving and illiterate Chad, who wants to break away
from his father Colby's criminal ways.
The movie, which hits British cinemas on Friday, is the feature
film debut for director Adam Smith, who has previously worked in
television and music with The Chemical Brothers.
"I was really drawn to the family aspect of the story and the
relationships between fathers and sons that's described in the
film over three generations," Smith said in an interview.
"And also this idea of this man that's trying to escape from the
shackles of what he's been brought up to be and give his
children opportunities that he's never had but the dilemma not
being as simple as that because he also loves a lot of what he
has been brought up to believe."
The film begins with Fassbender driving across a field with his
son on his lap, chasing a rabbit. Chad also teases police in a
town car chase and hides under a cow after a heist.
"(Fassbender) knew who he was and he understood the man and you
completely believed Michael in this world," Smith said, adding
special measures were taken for the cow scene.
"We actually had an animal handler who claimed to be a cow
handling expert and was, when we did the shot ... holding onto
... the back legs of the cow and somehow this was the thing that
was going to stop this huge cow crushing Michael Fassbender.
Fortunately it worked."
The film is set in rural western England, with the actors
putting on thick accents, which some critics have said may prove
difficult to understand for international audiences.
"It was very important to us as filmmakers to get the accents
authentic and truthful and it is quite a difficult accent for
people who don't know it," Smith said.
"And then there's a lot of slang in there as well which I think
the audience, as the film goes on, they kind of catch up with
it."
(Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Catherine
Evans)
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