"Black Bag" cast talk about spying skills, Rege-Jean Page reacts to James Bond rumours

Record ID: 1983688

  • Title: "Black Bag" cast talk about spying skills, Rege-Jean Page reacts to James Bond rumours
  • Date: 15th March 2025
  • Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (MARCH 9, 2025) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTORS REGE-JEAN PAGE AND MICHAEL FASSBENDER AND ACTRESS MARISA ABELA, ON CONSTANT JAMES BOND CASTING RUMOURS ABOUT REGE-JEAN PAGE IN THE PRESS, SAYING: (Reporter: Here you are playing a spy opposite Pierce Brosnan. That can't have escaped your notice
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  • Keywords: Black Bag
  • Location: VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS / NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
  • City: VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS / NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
  • Country: US
  • Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,Film,North America
  • Reuters ID: LVA004906715032025RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: The cast of Steven Soderbergh's new espionage drama "Black Bag" discussed whether they could ever work as spies in real life like the characters they play in the movie.
    "I would be terrible that's for sure. That's one of the great things about doing acting, to sort of dip your toe into a world, sort of a profession and then come out of it. I think the sacrifice is just too much," Fassbender, who recently starred in the spy series "The Agency" and David Fincher's "The Killer", said during an interview in New York on Sunday (March 9).
    His on-screen wife Cate Blanchett agreed.
    "I'd want to expose it straight away, I don't think I'd be able to keep my powder dry," she told Reuters.
    Fassbender and Blanchett play married British spies George Woodhouse and Kathryn St. Jean who both work at an organisation where a traitor is trying to steal top secret technology.
    Their co-star Naomie Harris, however, said she thought she might do well in the world of espionage.
    "Well I have actually been told by a spy that I would make a very good one," she said.
    In the film, George, an expert interrogator and self-professed hater of lies, gets tasked with finding the mole and discovers that his wife is among the five possible culprits. He rounds up the suspects, played by Naomie Harris, Rege-Jean Page, Marisa Abela and Tom Burke, at his house for an evening of "fun and games", hoping to elicit information from the group of professional deceivers.
    Page, often the subject of frequent media stories about becoming the next actor to play James Bond, had little to say when asked about whether starring as a spy in a movie alongside former Bond Pierce Brosnan would do anything to dampen the speculation.
    "I don't spend too much time thinking about the press," he said.
    "Black Bag", which was written by David Koepp and directed by "Traffic" and the "Ocean's" movie trilogy filmmaker Soderbergh, features more dialogue than action, adding a theatre play-like quality to the project.
    Black bags refer to the highly classified information the agents cannot divulge to anyone, their partners included.
    The London-set movie began its global cinematic rollout on March 14.
    (Production: Hussein Al Waaile, Edward Baran)
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