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How Michael Fassbender Made Steve Jobs Human

‘HELLO’

How do you make the greatest visionary of the digital age human? As he guns for an Oscar nod, the actor tells us how he became the Apple founder.

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Steve Jobs opens with a mission.

Or maybe it’s a vision.

The lionized tech wunderkind is basking in the success of his ambitious, provocative 1984 Macintosh ad which cast Apple as rabble-rousers disrupting some Orwellian dystopia and, in a way, saving the human race through computers—specifically, their computers.

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