X-Men: First Class did decent business on its opening weekend—not spectacular, but decent—and it looks like Michael Fassbender might finally be making it as a genuine Hollywood star. Not that he intends to rest on his laurels, since playing a guy who can bend metal with his mind makes him feel like a bit of a dolt. Instead, Fassbender is hard at work on his role in the upcoming film Shame, where he plays the challenging role of a man addicted to online pr0n. Fortunately Fassbender is the sort of conscientious actor who’s ready to do whatever it takes to prepare for a role:

I definitely explored the realm of it,” the 34-year-old actor says. “People can stay inside for 72 hours on end watching it. They can’t have sex with their wives because they’re so obsessed with it. What’s really interesting about it is that in the US alone, something like 24 million people claim to be sex addicts but the mental-health board hasn’t recognised it as an addiction.”

It could be an interesting role, although I’m not sure how many people will relate to it. I mean people who go to movies, not people who sit glued to their computers 24/7 whacking off like bored zoo monkeys. But it’s definitely a change from Magneto, and in some ways a change for the better. The pr0n Magneto would have had access to in 1962 would have been seriously low-quality stuff.