Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender on Playing Married Spies in Steven Soderbergh’s Thriller ‘Black Bag’: ‘It’s Got to Be Sexy’

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Brent Lang Executive Editor “Black Bag,” an elegant, quick-witted new thriller that finds Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender playing married spies, isn’t the pair’s first time together on screen.

That honor goes to 2017’s “Song to Song,” one of Terrence Malick’s most intangible and head-scratching offerings — though the two stars can barely recall that experience. “We walked past one another,” Blanchett says, scrunching her temples as if searching valiantly for the memory. “In the scene,” Fassbender, who is sitting to her right during an interview at Manhattan’s Whitby Hotel, interjects, helpfully filling in the gaps. “There was a very wealthy gentleman who had allowed us to use his house and his cars in the film — so he was in the scene as well.” It clicks. “That’s right,” Blanchett says excitedly. “Literally every day working with Terry was going fishing, and you didn’t know whether you catch anything, or if you caught anything, whether you’re going to eat it.

So I don’t even know if I’m even in the movie or if Terry just wanted me to hang around for a couple of weeks. Anyway, I wouldn’t say Michael and I really worked together.” The pair more than make up for any lost screentime with “Black Bag,” which finds them both at the center of a mystery.

Fassbender’s character, George Woodhouse, is tasked with finding out the identity of a double agent who is trying to sell a deadly cyberweapon to foreign buyers.