It’s fair to say that the world has woken up to Fassbender. He won Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for Shame, which we have a feeling won’t be the last gong of his career.

There’s talk of him taking over the 007 mantle and being pursued by producers to be the new RoboCop. Gossip and fan websites drool over him (often in alarmingly graphic detail) and heady adjectives such as virile, magnetic and charismatic are regularly ascribed to his performances.

Fassbender is, in an industry of pretty-boys, a proper man. And an actor who has built a powerful reputation on fearless, intense and corporeal roles; scary skinny as IRA prisoner Bobby Sands in Hunger, live-wire buff in 300, handsome cool in Inglorious Basterds and stealing the show as a potent Magneto in X-Men: First Class.