SECRETS AND SPIES

IN THE spy thriller Black Bag, the title serves as a metaphor for a place you keep your secrets, and in this case, where a married couple finds out the truth about what their spouse has hidden.

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The couple in question are intelligence agent George Woodhouse, played by Michael Fassbender, and his wife Kathryn - also a spy - played by two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett, who is suspected of betraying her country.

But what would Michael put in the black bag?

"Rental cars at airports," says the German-Irish actor, 47, whose high-profile roles include portraying a sex addict in Steve McQueen's drama Shame and an Oscar-nominated performance in 12 Years a Slave. "I just like to go straight to the car after I queue to get on the plane, go through airport security and all that stuff."

Michael's co-star Marisa Abela, 28, also has her mind on travel niggles when it comes to the black bag.

"I think it's when you are sitting on a plane when you're done [with your flight] and they won't let you take your seat belt off, that is my hell, the five minutes," says the Back to Black star who plays junior intelligence agent Clarissa Dubose.

Regé-Jean Page, who plays Colonel James Stokes in the film, says he would treat the black bag "a bit like Room 101"

"Voice notes. If you have some information to give me, like, what time are we meeting, and you've got to send me a five-minute voice note... and you tell a story and then put the thing that you need as your answer, four minutes and 30 seconds into the voice note, that's going in the black bag. I'm done with [it]," says the 37-year-old who shot to fame in Netflix hit Bridgerton.

"This is good to know because that is how I operate," says Naomie Harris who plays psychiatrist Zoe Vaughan, the colonel's lover.