Behind her serene gaze lies a brilliant mind and a heart passionate about telling stories. In her interviews, Cate Blanchett invites us to get to know the woman behind the legend, with the same depth and elegance that characterizes her in every role.
Cate Blanchett is not an actor who skims a screenplay when she’s considering it. “I read scripts very, very slowly,” she says, “but this one I read incredibly quickly. I knew from the get-go that it was about really big things — metaphysical, existential things that I was interested in — so I read it very quickly and […]
Continuing a sterling festival run, the XR experience “Evolver” was one of eight projects selected for the Cannes Film Festival’s inaugural Immersive Competition this year. Narrated by Cate Blanchett, the project follows the flow of oxygen throughout the human body, tracing our inner ecosystems via a full sensory experience set to music from Jonny Greenwood
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In the fourth gallery of “Picasso Sculpture,” a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, Cate Blanchett stopped in front of an elegant, elongated woman assembled from wood and wire that looked like her. It was early October, and Blanchett had come to Manhattan from her home in Sydney to attend the New York Film Festival premiere of Carol, a love story
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Cate Blanchett turns in a poignant performance as the brilliant, erratic title character in Richard Linklater’s adaptation of Maria Semple’s 2012 best-seller Where’d You Go, Bernadette, which centers on a once-celebrated architect who checks out of a stifling domestic life. The film, in select theaters this Friday, costars Billy Crudup, Kristen Wiig, and more, and
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Towards the end of a brief, if instructive, telephone exchange with Cate Blanchett, the actress drops in a small life detail which explains a sizeable corner of her story. Blanchett has an unblemished media profile. She is loved by audiences and industry alike for her work, while left alone to her private life without seeming
Just days before Cate Blanchett left Sydney to pick up her inevitable second Oscar at the Academy Awards a week ago, she spent time in a recording studio with the director of How To Train Your Dragon 2, Dean DeBlois, who had flown to Australia to record her final voice tracks for that animated sequel. ”She
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Cate Blanchett loves her chickens. Today, she is gently hypnotising one in her potting shed. She’s never done it before but is following instruction on the art by director and friend John Hillcoat. Cate is stroking her feathered friend and gently guiding its vision from its beak to her gloved finger as she sits on
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CATE Blanchett discusses the challenges of filming Notes On A Scandal and some of its more controversial elements, such as her character’s decision to have sex with a minor. She also discusses her plans to return to Australia to become artistic director of a theatre. Q. Novelist Zoe Heller asked Patrick Marber to “do some work” on your
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Cate Blanchett spoke with HFPA journalists in 2004 about playing Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator directed by Martin Scorsese, with Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.“Kate Hepburn was a deeply private woman, so we were trying to unlock the human being while also watching her body of work and paying nods to certain performances. Marty and I talked a lot about Bringing Up Baby and those
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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 Galadriel in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings. She has won two Oscars, three BAFTAs and dozens of other awards around the world. She’s worked with directors Martin Scorsese,
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