Spontaneity! Freedom! Schoenaerts bangs the table in excitement. He has worked with actors, he says, who plot their every word and gesture in a notebook before they even get in front of a camera. Madness! ‘I’m like, my God! Let it go. Breathe. Listen to your partner. Watch each other. I worked with one director who told me how to say a sentence before I even got to the scene. I’m like, what is this? It didn’t make any sense. Yeah, you study and all of that, but you cannot determine the inflections in a sentence before you’ve even got to the set and before you’ve heard your partner say what he or she has to say. What kind of bullshit is that?’