Michael Fassbender cannot lie — the polygraph scene in Black Bag was a bear for him to shoot.

“ 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.

Black Bag star Michael Fassbender has shared that he was “panicking” after his preparation for one particular scene was scuppered by a late change. The spy thriller, which is directed by Steven Soderbergh,