‘I’m practically an Aussie’: Michael Fassbender reveals he’s learning to surf while filming Alien

HOLLYWOOD actor Michael Fassbender is certainly making the most of his time in Sydney and currently calls the harbour city home while he films Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant at Fox Studios.

HOLLYWOOD actor Michael Fassbender is certainly making the most of his time in Sydney.

The X-Men star currently calls the harbour city home as he’s filming Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant at Fox Studios.

“I am practically Australian at this point,” Fassbender told Confidential on the red carpet at George Street’s Event Cinema complex for the Australian premiere of his new film X-Men: Apocalypse.

“I am annoying people on the waves, I’m trying to learn. It is such a beautiful city because you’ve got such clean beaches very accessible to the city. It is actually really wonderful to see and the education around the beach and the water when you see the Nippers, I love that. It is a fantastic culture.”

Michael Fassbender on the red carpet last night.

He waved to fans and signed autographs.

X-Men: Apocalypse is the latest in a string of films in the marvel franchise that sees stars including Jennifer Lawrence and James McAvoy return to the big screen.

It is Fassbender’s third film as Magneto.

“He is a pretty layered character,” he explained. “It is a pretty sophisticated world even though it is a fantasy world, the X Men and the whole concepts that they are dealing with. That is really what drew me to it in the first place with First Class, there’s such a depth in his history to draw from that you are never left with a two dimensional character as such.”

Fassbender is enjoying his time in Sydney shooting the next Alien movie. Picture: AAP/David Moir

Of Magneto’s story this film, he continued: “When you first meet him he is sort of living a very simple and honest life, he has fallen in love and started a family and left his mutant ways behind and working in a steel factory of sorts which we thought was pretty interesting because he’s not using his powers and doing manual labour as his penance.

“Things get a little skew whiff and he loses his family and he is recruited then by Apocalypse to help destroy the world.”

Fassbender, 39, recently shot The Light Between Oceans in New Zealand and when production finished flew to Australia for a break.

“I stayed here for a while,” he said. “I found a place in Byron for a month, it’s a beautiful place to be. I really love it here.”

He’s only just started shooting Alien so will be based in Sydney for some time to come.

Fassbender wouldn’t though divulge too much about the plot of the much anticipated film.

“I’m really excited about this one I have to say,” he said. “There’s a lot going on, I think it is going to be super scary.”

* X-Men: Apocalypse opens in cinemas on Thursday.

Michael Fassbender plays Magneto for a third time in X-Men: Days of Future Past. Picture: Supplied

Fassbender with Jennifer Lawrence. Picture: Supplied