Olympic Inspirations
To play David, the android who helps the crew of the ship Prometheus on their inter-galactic fact-finding mission, Michael Fassbender found inspiration from many places, some likely, and some not, including one gold medalist. “I made a decision not to watch the Alien movies. I watched ‘Blade Runner’ and I looked at the replicants. Well, I looked at Sean Young. There was something in her character, a quality there that I kind ... more 

Olympic Inspirations
To play David, the android who helps the crew of the ship Prometheus on their inter-galactic fact-finding mission, Michael Fassbender found inspiration from many places, some likely, and some not, including one gold medalist. “I made a decision not to watch the Alien movies. I watched ‘Blade Runner’ and I looked at the replicants. Well, I looked at Sean Young. There was something in her character, a quality there that I kind of liked for David, this longing for something or some sort of a soul at play there, a sort of vacancy also, a sort vacant element. I don’t know exactly what, I just knew there was a quality there that I liked. And then Hal from ‘2001’. And then I sort of walked in with ‘The Servant’ and Dirk Bogarde and that. And then ‘Lawrence of Arabia,’ Peter O’Toole’s character of Lawrence. And ‘The Man Who Fell To Earth,’ David Bowie. So those were the kind of ingredients. And then Greg Louganis, the diver, so that was sort of the mixture,” Fassbender told a group of interviewers.
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