Michael Fassbender Read Online Free

knee-high boots, via the aid of TV visual effects of super-fast revolutions and a flash of light. ‘I was always trying to capture her between the change,’ Michael recalled. ‘I felt unusual things were happening to me and I didn’t understand. Cartoons might be on the other channel but I no longer wanted to watch them.’
    He remembers, too, the excruciating experience of Josef sitting him down and giving him the ‘sex talk’. ‘I was like, “Oh God, why does he have to do it?” I think I was thirteen and I had a girlfriend. It was embarrassing as hell, like “Urgh!” I knew about all that anyway – you know, boys at school, who’d picked it up from older brothers and cousins.’
    Adele, who enjoyed singing around the house, encouraged Michael’s musical talents. In traditional Irish fashion he started by playing the tin whistle and then progressed to the piano accordion. He really wanted to play the violin but his parents told him that violins would be too expensive to buy. Later, like many teens the world over, he picked up a guitar and dreamed of being in a band. In Michael’s case, it was to be the lead singer in a heavy-metal band. He particularly admired Kirk Hammett, lead guitarist with Metallica. But although Michael grew his hair long and was adept at flamboyant rock-star posturingwith the guitar in his bedroom, when he heard how good some of his friends were playing the guitar in reality, he knew that he was just not good enough.
    It was questionable, too, whether he had the true rock-star temperament. On one occasion he and a group of friends travelled to Dingle where they were going to busk on the streets but they were put off when it started to rain. They persuaded a local publican to let them play inside his pub but heavy-metal music at lunchtime was not of great appeal to his customers and they were repeatedly told to ‘turn it down’. Eventually they were playing with unplugged electric guitars before deciding to give it up as a lost cause!
    In 1993 Josef and Adele took over a popular restaurant called West End House in the town centre, opposite St Brendan’s. Josef worked in the kitchen and established a reputation for excellent but unfussy French bistro food, while Adele was front of house. But the first few years were tough and when Michael asked for trainers and fashionable clothes, he would often be told that they couldn’t afford it. It taught him the value of money and of hard work. Nothing comes easy. But Michael and Catherine were somewhat spoiled with the beautiful meals that they got to eat in the restaurant. A particular favourite of Michael’s was his father’s rack of lamb and even now Michael follows the way Josef taught him to do it. He was later to describe his father as being ‘an artist in the kitchen’.
    Michael earned pocket money by helping his parents at their restaurant, washing up and waiting on tables. He later remarked that it was good training for an actor being ‘front of house’ where you need to be smiling and looking happy no matter what turmoil is going on in the kitchen or in your own life. His parents made sure that he put away half the money he earned as an investment for the future.
    When he was 16 Josef and Adele let Michael live above West End House during the week in exchange for doing weekend shifts downstairs. The restaurant was three miles from home and he enjoyed the independence this gave him. He spent much of his spare time wandering through the beautiful Killarney National Park, nestled among the mountains, with its acres of woods, lakes and grassland where red deer roam. The area is steeped in history. Here, on the edge of a lake, stands romantic Ross Castle, built by O’Donoghue Mór in the 15th century. It came into the hands of the Earls of Kenmare, who owned an extensive portion of the lands that are now part of the Park, and was the last