Michael Fassbender joins INGLORIOUS BASTARDS

Replacing Simon Pegg in Quentin Tarantino's ensemble war picture.

by Matt Holmes

German born but Ireland raised actor Michael Fassbender has joined Inglorious Bastards. The 300 actor who also appeared in several episodes of Band of Brothers will play Lt. Archie Hichox, the role that Simon Pegg had been offered but had to turn down due to scheduling conflicts.

Variety describe Fassbender as a "method" actor of the extreme Daniel Day-Lewis kind, claiming that he even emaciated himself to play Irish republican hunger striker Bobby Sands in a recent Indie film biopic.

Not that this role will expect much from him other than a convincing British accent.

Less distracting than Pegg for sure, maybe this whole change of actor thing is for the best.

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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.