Michael Fassbender Recalls Nearly Dying On A Boat Amid Storm While Listening To ABBA

The actor, though he'd not been a fan of the group, said the popular track marked the harrowing incident on an Ibiza trip.

Michael Fassbender has a new appreciation for the Swedish pop group ABBA after revealing he had a near brush with death while listening to one of their biggest tunes.

While appearing on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” the “Agency” star, 47, admitted that, even though the group was never really his cup of tea, he changed his perspective after their famous song “Dancing Queen” became the score for a terrifying boating trip to Ibiza.

“I never really liked ABBA. And then we were in Ibiza ― we were actually in Formentera, and we were getting a boat from Formentera to Ibiza ― and we had a late lunch and we were heading back at night and it got really stormy,” Fassbender told Fallon on Tuesday. “Like, bad.”

“We’d already taken our little tender boat out to the main boat, where we were going to go back to Ibiza, and that started deflating as we were heading out to the boat. So we just made it back, but that thing sort of sunk, and we were laughing about it.”

The “Prometheus” star said the storm “kicked up” and “plates and everything were flying” while they were “blasting” ABBA aboard the boat.