After wowing audiences at the Venice and Toronto film festivals, Michael Fassbender and writer-director Steve McQueen brought home "Shame".
The movie won Fassbender a Best Actor prize in Venice, and looks on par for an Oscar nod.
"Shame" tells the story of a sex addict who finds himself unable to make any emotional connections with the women he meets.
However, things change when his younger sister played by Carey Mulligan arrives.
Suddenly, his seemingly contained world is thrown into disarray.
McQueen and Fassbender previously worked together on the director's debut feature "Hunger" - which received several accolades including Cannes' prestigous Camera d'Or.
It was because of this perfect partnership that McQueen had only one actor in mind.
SOUNDBITE: Steve Mcqueen, Writer-Director, saying:
"It's a situation where someone has to go through a journey, and when I think of an actor and you think of an actor, there's not many actors who can actually do that, and you always come back to Michael Fassbender."
Fassbender talked about the difficulties facing his character.
SOUNDBITE: Michael Fassbender, Actor, saying:
"Responsibility in a relationship, you know, giving himself up emotionally, and that for him is a loss of control. You know, if he opens himself up he's liable to get hurt or all the obvious things, and so his whole environment is a very controlled one. It's that idea of intimacy being something that's too scary."
"Shame" will be released in the US in December and the UK in January.
Cindy Martin, Reuters
