PROMETHEUS Interviews with Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender

[BlackTree TV - London England] Shawn Edwards catches up with two of the fastest rising stars on screen today, Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender to talk about their involvement in the new movie PROMETHEUS.

NOOMI RAPACE (Elizabeth Shaw) captured the eyes of the international entertainment community with her commanding, unnerving and critically acclaimed portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in the film adaptations of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest.
Rapace was recently seen opposite Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law in Guy Ritchie's sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, portraying gypsy fortuneteller, Sim, who sees more than she is telling.
Currently, Rapace is in production on director Brian de Palma's Passion, opposite Rachel McAdams. She plays the role of Isabelle, an ambitious advertising executive who plots revenge after her boss and mentor steal her idea. Following this, Rapace is slated to begin the action thriller Dead Man Down, in which she reunites with director Niels Arden Oplev and stars opposite Colin Farrell. Rapace will portray Beatrice, a crime victim seeking retribution.
Rapace began her acting career at the age of seven, in Iceland's In the Shadow of the Raven. She has since gone to appear in over twenty films and television shows. In 2007, she made her mark on the big screen with a breakthrough performance in the 2007 Danish film, Daisy Diamond. In the film, Rapace portrays a troubled teen-mother who leaves her home to pursue a dream, ultimately failing and having a breakdown with fatal consequences. For her performance, she was honored with the Bodil Award (Danish Critics Award) and a Robert Award (Denmark's Academy Award) for Best Actress.
Rapace garnered high praise for her breakthrough performance in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first installment of the Millennium Trilogy which opened in February 2009 in Sweden. She won the Best Actress Guldbagge Award (Swedish Academy Award) and the Best Actress International Jupiter Award (Germany), in addition to being nominated for an Orange British Academy Film Award for Lead Actress and a Best Actress European Film Award for her role. Rapace garnered subsequent praise for her performances in the second and third installments, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest.
Born in Sweden, Rapace is the daughter of Flamenco singer Rogelio Duran.

Born in Germany and raised in Killarney, Ireland, MICHAEL FASSBENDER (David) enjoyed a phenomenal run of critically acclaimed performances in 2011 and 2012, garnering numerous accolades and awards, including the Best Actor award at the 2011 Venice Film Festival and Irish Film and Television Award (IFTAs), as well as a Golden Globe and BAFTA nomination for Best Actor for Steve McQueen's Shame. The National Board of Review awarded Fassbender the Spotlight Award and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association named him Best Actor for his performances in Shame and Davide Cronenberg's drama A Dangerous Method, in which Fassbender plays Carl Jung opposite Keira Knightley and Viggo Mortensen. Fassbender was also recently seen in Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class, as Erik Lehnsherr, better known as super-villain Magneto; as Rochester in Cary Joji Fukunaga's Jane Eyre; and as an assassin opposite Ewan McGregor and Gina Carano in Steven Soderbergh's Haywire.
Fassbender co-starred in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 blockbuster Inglourious Basterds, sharing with his fellow actors the Screen Actors Guild Award® for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, as well as the Critics' Choice Award for Best Acting Ensemble.
Fassbender starred as the late hunger striker Bobby Sands in Steve McQueen's true-life drama Hunger. The performance earned him the British Independent Film Award (BIFA) and IFTA for Best Actor, a London Film Critics Award, and Best Actor honors from the 2008 Stockholm and Chicago International Film Festivals. The following year, he was honored at the latter festival, as Best Supporting Actor, for his performance in Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank. This performance brought him BIFA and IFTA nominations, as well as his second London Film Critics Circle Award. Fassbender was an IFTA nominee for his performance in Marc Munden's miniseries "The Devil's Whore."
Born in Germany and raised in Ireland, Fassbender is a graduate of London's prestigious Drama Centre. His breakthrough role came as Sgt. Burton "Pat" Christenson in HBO's epic, award-winning miniseries Band of Brothers.
After making his feature film debut in Zack Snyder's blockbuster 300, Fassbender appeared in Joel Schumacher's Blood Creek, James Watkins' Eden Late, Jimmy Hayward's Jonah Hex, Francois Ozon's Angel, and Neil Marshall's Centurion.

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