Cate Blanchett

2022 - 12 - 12

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BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs - Seven things we learned from ... (BBC News)

Cate Blanchett has appeared in more than 70 films and over 20 theatre productions, playing everything from Elizabeth I and Bob Dylan to the royal Elf ...

the length of her reign [44 years], the amount of personal sacrifice that she'd had to make and everything that had gone on under her when she was on the throne.” “A friend of mine who's a make-up artist said to me a few days into the shoot: ‘Put a sock down your pants!’ I said: ‘What?!’ She said: ‘You’re on the bed, put a sock down your pants,’ and I said, ‘Oh, OK’ and I did! The music school was massive at my school and there was a choir of probably about 140 girls.” You realise that in that particular film the character was made up of many different parts.” “This was on an album that my dad had and it was played a lot and I would always put it on and think of him. She recalls how her research for the part included a trip to the British Library, to see letters written by Elizabeth I. “And then before the Muppet Movie came on, it flashed on the bottom of the screen: ‘Could Mrs. They corresponded for a couple of years and then he came back to Australia, and they decided to get hitched!” She was only cast in minor roles: “I was a statue in the Chronicles of Narnia… “I actually remembered the last time I saw him. And now that they're locking themselves in their rooms and talking to their girlfriends, it's come back into my life.” It's a conduit for memory and non-linear connections, or strange left of field associations you might give birth to when you're thinking about a role.”

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the length of her reign [44 years], the amount of personal sacrifice that she’d had to make and everything that had gone on under her when she was on the throne.” “A friend of mine who’s a make-up artist said to me a few days into the shoot: ‘Put a sock down your pants!’ I said: ‘What?!’ She said: ‘You’re on the bed, put a sock down your pants,’ and I said, ‘Oh, OK’ and I did! The music school was massive at my school and there was a choir of probably about 140 girls.” You realise that in that particular film the character was made up of many different parts.” “This was on an album that my dad had and it was played a lot and I would always put it on and think of him. She recalls how her research for the part included a trip to the British Library, to see letters written by Elizabeth I. “And then before the Muppet Movie came on, it flashed on the bottom of the screen: ‘Could Mrs. They corresponded for a couple of years and then he came back to Australia, and they decided to get hitched!” She was only cast in minor roles: “I was a statue in the Chronicles of Narnia… “I actually remembered the last time I saw him. And now that they’re locking themselves in their rooms and talking to their girlfriends, it’s come back into my life.” It’s a conduit for memory and non-linear connections, or strange left of field associations you might give birth to when you’re thinking about a role.”

Cate Blanchett Opens Up About Her Very First Acting Role (Just Jared)

The 53-year-old The Lord of the Rings actress opened up on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs about her acting roles, and revealed something surprising about her ...

[some surprising news about her latest role](https://www.justjared.com/2022/12/08/cate-blanchett-michelle-yeoh-reveal-their-tar-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-roles-were-originally-intended-for-men/), which is a favorite in Oscar predictions. So I was climbing up on the rostrum and I had this beautiful pose planned and I didn’t have time to turnaround, so all the audience saw was my bum – I got a laugh!” So, I had one line and I got to shoot a bow and arrow.

Cate Blanchett opens up about Hollywood's gender battle, insisting ... (Independent.ie)

Cate Blanchett says women playing lead roles in films has “stopped being talked about like it's a fashionable thing”.

“Obviously, there are many more female writers, female producers – I still think that the male-to-female ratio of crew members on set needs to be addressed,” she told BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. The actress said “big advances” have been made within the industry but there are further gender-equality issues that “need to be addressed”. However, she adds that the matter still needs to be kept “unfortunately politicised”.

Cate Blanchett says putting a sock down her pants helped her to ... (The Independent)

Cate Blanchett has recalled putting a sock down her pants to play her role as Bob Dylan in the 2007 film I'm Not There. The actor was discussing her time ...

“I said: ‘What?!’ She said: ‘You’re on the bed, put a sock down your pants,’ and I said, ‘Oh, OK’ and I did! “I actually remembered the last time I saw him. Blanchett was one of six actors to play an era of Dylan for the film.

Golden Globes 2023: Nominations include 'Tár' and Cate Blanchett ... (NBCNews.com)

Star Cate Blanchett received a Golden Globe nomination for a tour-de-force performance that explores power and culpability. Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár in ...

[ critic Anthony Lane wrote.](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/10/cate-blanchett-is-imperious-and-incandescent-in-tar) Even in the final scenes, when there’s so little of the fire left in her, she has an aura, a defiant presence. In the end, we are not sure she is really guilty of sexual harassment and abuse, whether she deserves public condemnation. It’s not clear that they had a sexual connection, but we assume they did, and now that Tár has tired of her, Francesca is sidelined, a nobody. It seems nearly impossible to envision anyone else in the role. She is hounded by a former protégée and paramour, Krista, whom we see only in flashes. "Tár" is different, daring to put a lesbian in the role of genius and villain. So when, toward the end of the film, a young cellist rejects her, it comes as a shock. The decision by director and screenwriter Todd Field to make Tár a lesbian unsettled me. Why did Field create Tár as a lesbian rather than a straight woman, or one of the great men themselves? The movie also received a best motion picture and best screenplay nod. In "Tár," Blanchett plays the Berlin Philharmonic’s fictional director, an artistic genius and intimidating force. As a rule, in these films and dozens of others, lesbians live miserable lives (see “Ammonite” with Kate Winslet).

“What Is a Queen?”: Cate Blanchett, Danai Gurira and Emma ... (Hollywood Reporter)

The three actresses write expressively of their gratitude and deep respect for their female colleagues, including Hildur Gudnadóttir, Angela Bassett and ...

The indefatigable Hildur is a rock star, a sprite and one of the most gifted and humble collaborators with whom I have ever had the good fortune to be in the same room. We did it slowly, item by item, and as we revealed our bodies, we spoke to each other about what they meant to us — the scars we had (both internal and external), the bits we liked and the bits we were uncomfortable with, the bits we had learned to live with and the bits we avoided in the mirror. Contrary to popular myth, perhaps, a lot of young men aren’t particularly comfortable with flinging their clothes off in front of two women they don’t know very well and certainly don’t want to shag — but Daryl was brave as a lion. Our rehearsals with her — in the deserted city of Norwich, closed down amid the pandemic — were little short of miraculous. She had two actors, one hotel room, a lot of words and full-frontal nudity to deal with. Go ahead, and PUMP HARDER!” With those two words she not only revealed her commitment to the narrative, she also gave me as an artist the license to fully immerse myself in the moment, the circumstance and the emotion of the story. Such strength in delicacy and inventive elegance makes Hildur not only a great composer, but a great creative force with whom to engage. A woman who knows her power and is so in touch with her own humanity. I couldn’t have fathomed that I would one day work with her on as big a project as the Black Panther films — especially Wakanda Forever, where I was afforded the opportunity to work even more intimately with this talented heavyweight. It’s been a big year for Hildur Gudnadóttir: She undertook multiple live engagements as a cellist, created a lavish emotional score for the heartbreaking Women Talking and threw herself into the shape-shifting reinventions of what scoring a film even means for Todd Field’s riveting Tár. I looked to her as the North Star for all a Black girl could aspire to be in this field. Actress and playwright Gurira recalls a moment on the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever set — spoiler alert!

Oscars 2023 contenders: can Tom Cruise beat Cate Blanchett? (Telegraph.co.uk)

Following Will Smith's slap and some dismal winners, the 2023 Academy Awards have a lot to prove. Can Top Gun and Tár make the public care?

As for Avatar: The Way of Water, James Cameron’s much-hyped return to Pandora, I sense it’s unlikely to win as many voters’ hearts this season as its lissom blue forerunner, despite its two nominations at the Globes in Best Picture – Drama and Best Director. The wildest by far, however, is Babylon, a jaw-dropping three-hour-long orgy of silent-era Hollywood excess from La La Land’s Damien Chazelle. Like Tár, The Whale won’t arrive in the UK until early next year, again to capitalise on the expected nominee bounce. (It was cited in all three equivalent Globes categories, as well as three more: screenplay, director and supporting actress, for Jamie Lee Curtis.) Quan is another comeback story that’s hard to resist: the former child performer who played Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, he hasn’t acted regularly since 1992, when you may have seen him in the comedy California Man, alongside one Brendan Fraser. Alongside Farrell and Butler, the only other likely across-the-board Best Actor nominee is Brendan Fraser – 2023’s comeback kid, whose wrenching work in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale still feels like the performance to beat. Martin McDonagh’s bitter black comedy about a lifelong friendship that turns into a feud was shortlisted for Best Motion Picture – Comedy, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Original Score, and for all four of its central performances: Colin Farrell in lead, and Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan in support. Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, a fictionalised account of its director’s childhood which was also nominated for Best Motion Picture – Drama, has made $5.9 million since it was released in America last month. When Tár opened in the US in October it hardly did Top Gun business, but it’s been a while since that sort of thing mattered in this sphere – unless having flopped becomes the film’s defining trait (which probably stymied last month’s Harvey Weinstein investigation drama She Said). The Academy’s recent choices have been regularly bewildering – has anyone so much as thought about Coda, this year’s (dreadful) Best Picture winner, in the last nine months? The former, which doesn’t open in the UK until January, is a sleek and witty psychological drama starring a never-better Cate Blanchett as an egomaniacal conductor, masterfully written and directed by Todd Field. When the nominations for the 2023 Golden Globes were announced, all eyes turned to the Best Motion Picture – Drama category, where seven of the last 10 Best Picture Oscar winners were found. The biggest fight of the filmgoing year is now upon us, and it could end up being a vintage grudge match between commerce and art.

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