It feels like Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender have worked together a million times, but they really haven’t. Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag is the first time they’ve worked together on-screen, and they play a married couple where both husband and wife are black-op spies of some variety. Both Cate and Michael are doing hinky British accents too, how fun. It’s like “what if Mr. and Mrs. Smith was super-serious?” I’m including the trailer at the end of this post.

Last night was the big New York premiere. Cate Blanchett for a fresh-off-the-runway Givenchy Fall 2025 look in black leather. Get it, because the movie is called “black bag?” I’m not really a fan of this look – it’s too dated, too “leather mama,” too overkill. Meanwhile, Fassy looked… odd. That coat is too big and he wore his sunglasses on the carpet. Still, I will check this out – both Cate and Michael are very good at having chemistry with their on-screen partners, and I absolutely hope that there are some sexy spy games.

Incidentally, I’ve watched some of Fassy’s Showtime series, The Agency. He also plays a spy in that one, a spy with secrets, mostly involving secrets about his affair with Jodie Turner Smith’s character. Fassbender took four years off from the industry and came back and booked all of these spy roles.

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