S ebastian Stan is bald, like the glossy undercarriage of a baby seal. Let’s just get that out of the way. “I’m on a journey with it,” he explains. “I’ve stopped asking what the destination is.” He first shaved his hair off for Fjord , the film he’s promoting today, then was asked to keep it shorn for a sequel to The Batman , which he’s shooting as we speak . He’s playing Two-Face, or serial killer Victor Zsasz, or a secret third thing we don’t know about yet. “It’s been a very freeing experience, I have to say.”

Next to Stan is his Norwegian co-star Renate Reinsve, of The Worst Person in the World and Sentimental Value , but not of any periods of self-imposed baldness herself. “I did have a life crisis once, though, where I cut my hair like this short ,” she says, creating a tiny pocket of air between her thumb and forefinger. “And that was a week before I was asked to do Worst Person , so they had to fit me for a wig.”

“That was a wig?” Stan interjects, shocked. “It looked so real!”

Movie magic, baby.…