Awarded. With César de Honor, in February of this year, at the Olympia theater in Paris. Photo by AFP
No one in Hollywood would dare argue that Cate Blanchett He is one of the best known and chameleonic artists of his generation.
The Oscar winner was able to represent a conservative and anti-feminist woman like Phyllis Schlafly in the series Miss Americato Katherine Hepburn in The Aviator or an unscrupulous television host on don’t look upwith both talent and credibility.
The sum of this ability to change the skin was in 2015 at manifest (not released in Argentina), where he played 12 characters in the same film, both male and female, including a homeless man, a scientist, a journalist and a teacher.
In 2020 he was president of the Venice Festival Jury, in the midst of a pandemic. Photo by AFP
“Over the years I’ve realized that my relationship with costume and hair designers and make-up artists is really deep,” Blanchett said. New York Times in a joint interview with feminist photographer Cindy Sherman.
“It’s very deep to see what a character looks like on screen and, therefore, how that character can be moved or projected,” deepens the Oscar-winning interpreter for best leading actress for Blue Jasmineby Woody Allen.
However, the 52-year-old Australian star said male directors don’t always understand the extent to which these adjacent production teams are an integral part of filmmaking.
As the news anchor on “Don’t Look Up,” the rude comedy starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Photo on Netflix
“Those departments, called ‘women’s guilds,’ are often topics that male directors say they don’t know anything about,” Blanchett said, adding that directors often come out and say, ” I’ll leave that part to you. ‘ “
His memory of “Elizabeth” and a request
Always busy and demanding of the best directors and screenwriters, Blanchett is willing to work on two equally promising films: TARby Todd Field, and Manual for cleaning womenby Pedro Almodovar.
21 years ago, Blanchett presented a Golden Globe to Pedro Almodóvar. Now they work together. Clarin Image File
Despite her busy schedule, Blanchett took the time to visit Lincoln Center and received the Chaplin Award on April 26. The actress made history by being the second youngest winner of that award recognizing the career of an interpreter.
The interview with New York Times It came about with that award. But the conversation turned to other topics such as her relationship with the male filmmakers, which is despite #Me too and paradigm shifts still dominate most of Hollywood.
According to Blanchett, they don’t usually understand the importance of a character’s physical appearance, nor do they appreciate the dimension of professions destined to expose those qualities on screen. And he recalled his experience with Shekhar Kapur, who taught him both Elizabeth (1998) as in the sequel, Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007).
Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth I in “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (2007). Clarin Image File
“I played Elizabeth I years ago, and the director, who I love and respect, always said, ‘I want her hair to dry, blow in the wind,'” Blanchett recalled. “I would say, ‘Have you seen any pictures of Elizabeth I? There aren’t many like that. “
He added: “But because (some male directors) need to be attracted. They don’t see that there are other ways – and I don’t mean sexual ones – to make you look attractive. Audiences can get to experience a character in many different ways. “
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Source: Clarin
