Watch: 27-Minute NYFF 'Steve Jobs' Press Conference With Danny Boyle, Aaron Sorkin, Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet & Seth Rogen

“I studied Ashton Kutcher.” Those are not the words you expect to hear from Michael Fassbender about his approach to playing the titular Apple icon in "Steve Jobs." Thankfully, he was joking when he made those comments at the recent New York Film Festival press conference for the movie. And the actor, who admits he's not a tech head, even suggested to director Danny Boyle he didn't have the right look to play the role.

“Obviously I don’t look anything like Steve Jobs,” Fassbender said. “That was the first thing I said to Danny. I said: ‘Christian Bale looks a lot more like Steve Jobs than me.’ He wasn’t interested in that – he wanted to get the energy and essence of the man and go with that.”

Smart choice. The result is a movie that we called "a rush of blood to the head" and an "electrifying portrayal of a relentlessly determined and dysfunctionally complicated figure," so it looks like Fassbender went beyond the image to the man behind the iPod,...