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.