HE’S known for hard-hitting roles in films such as Hunger and Shame — but Michael Fassbender would love to tackle a comedy sometime.

The Oscar nominee shot to fame ten years ago for his portrayal of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands.

9 Michael Fassbender would relish more roles that allowed him to show off his playful side

Now the Kerry actor has told how he’d love to show off his more playful side on the big screen.

The A-lister said: “I try and sort of bring it in wherever I can.

“Like David (the android in his next role Alien: Covenant) as well, there are some fun moments there. It’s something that I have to do more of.”

9 Fassbender and girlfriend Alicia Vikander at the UK Premiere of "The Light Between Oceans" last year

He added: “I spoke to Seth Rogen (star of Knocked Up and Superbad) about it. We’d met before, I was a fan of his work.

“I think I threw a blueberry at him actually, it was at one of these dinners and he was at the table across the way and so that was our introduction and then I got talking to him. So, when we were on Steve Jobs he said, ‘I thought we’d work together at some point but I thought it would be in one of my movies.’ So yeah, maybe at some point.”

The 40-year-old hunk famously donned the black turtleneck of the Apple visionary in Danny Boyle’s 2015 biopic.

9 Seth Rogen, whose films Michael is a fan

But Fossa native Michael confessed he had major misgivings about the controversial role — and even considered breaking a body part to get out of it.

He admitted: “When the script arrived for me and the opportunity to play the part I really thought, ‘This is not me, this should be somebody else. It’s a miscast scenario.’ Then I spoke to my agent and my dad and they were like, ‘You’ve got to go for it.’

“But at the beginning in rehearsals I was trying to find a way to get out of the job.

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“I remember telling my driver, ‘If I put my arm in the door and you slam it, it should cause a break and should get me out of this gig.’

“But I thankfully didn’t and I just went back to my room and continued learning the lines. But there were some daunting moments in that process.”

The IFTA-winning actor celebrated his milestone 40th birthday just last month.

9 Fassbender as Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs, in the biopic of the same name made by Danny Boyle

And he recalled how his glittering career all began in a local pub more than two decades ago.

He recalled: “For me I started acting at 17, this guy took me into a professional company in Killarney and we were doing pantomime, pub theatre.

“And six months later I formed my own company and I got my friends together and I produced, directed and played Mr Pink in a stage version of Reservoir Dogs, which we did in a local nightclub.

“So, for me to work with Quentin Tarantino (in Inglourious Basterds) was massive and I knew it was going to be special just because I was such a huge fan of his work.

9 Fassbender as Callum "Cal" Lynch in Assassin's Creed which he produced and had two characters roles

“But when I read the script it was so off-the-wall, you know, where Hitler gets blown up I had to go back two pages to make sure I read it correctly.

“So yeah, the experience for me was just other worldly really.”

In-demand Michael is still loved-up with Swedish actress Alicia Vikander whom he met on the set of The Light Between Oceans three years ago.

And he revealed how he pulled off the emotional scenes opposite his real-life girlfriend in the sweeping tale of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who discover a baby girl in a shipwrecked boat.

9 The Kerry star as Walter, a synthetic android in Alien: Covenant

He explained: “Sometimes you try and remember something that was sad or traumatic or a time that really affected you emotionally and try and sort of relive that.

“I pray to relatives that are dead and I ask them to look out for me if I’m going into a scene like that.

“Because you never know if you’re really going to get there.

“You hope that you’re sort of going to get to that place truthfully because it’s horrible to try and pretend cry!”

9 Fassbender as Frank in the 2014 film Frank which was set in Ireland

The powerhouse performer most recently appeared opposite Brendan Gleeson in low-budget drama Trespass Against Us.

And he divulged why he wanted to take on the role of a Traveller bidding to turn his back on his earlier life of crime. Thespian Michael said: “It was something that really interested me because when I grew up in the south west of Ireland there were Travellers in our community and one family, in particular, that were settled Travellers.

“I was always very aware of that separation and the segregation between the Travelling community and the settled community and that still continues today.

“People talk in the UK about ‘pikeys’, the sort of slang term for Travellers, and you can read that in a newspaper.

“People will describe them that way and it seems to me that that’s really prejudiced and you wouldn’t get away with it with other minority groups.

Even when we were filming it the crew members were like, ‘Why are you telling a story about these people?’ So, I thought this hopefully would get people talking and address the situation a bit more.

“That’s the great thing about doing films like X-Men — they can allow these other films to be made and allow me to make them.”

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Fassbender infamously shed 42lbs to play Bobby Sands who died in 1981 after 66 days on hunger strike in Steve McQueen’s blistering prison drama Hunger.

And even after playing everything from a superhero to a sex addict and a slave owner, the Kerryman told how it’s still the performance he’s proudest of.

He revealed: “I was 30 and I got this opportunity to play a lead role in a film and I really wanted to make sure I grabbed that opportunity with both hands.

“And then I also spent ten weeks by myself losing the weight and it was a very solitary experience. My mum comes from the North and I just wanted to make sure that if we were making a film about this topic that it was handled with the utmost respect.

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“So that whole story was very personal to me as well.”

Speaking about his physical transformations in films such as Frank and 12 Years a Slave, he continued: “The roles that have really attracted me have been perhaps in an area where I thought, ‘Jeez, am I going to be able to pull it off?’ or ‘What sort of scope are these characters in and is it something that I can find or reach?’

He added: “If you can tell something to the audience through a visual form without it being explained through dialogue, it’s a pretty powerful thing because it allows people to fill in the blanks themselves.”