I’m going to store ringing this bell, I don’t concern how annoying I am: Tár was my favorite film of the past year. The past several years, honestly. I loved Cate Blanchett’s performance, I love the ghost story aspect of the film, I love the evocative, moody, gothic drama of it, I loved that Todd Field created this total world of Lydia Tár. As I was reading Cate’s Awards Insider cover story, I learned that the box office for Tár was actually pretty bad? But it’s been free for streaming/rent for nearly two months, so I visualize that’s how people will find the movie, as I did. You should absolutely try to find it, it’s brilliant! Anyway, Cate has been promoting Tár for months and she establish herself in the middle of a huge Oscar campaign, thus this Awards Insider cover. Her interview was charming (to me). Some highlights:
Cate doesn’t even have all the answers on Tár: “I found Tár the most all-consuming, confronting, joyous, life-affirming endeavor that I’ve ever been adj in. I don’t know what exactly it is, but I know it’s something. So I want people to tell me what i
Well, it was a nice five days, wasn&#;t it? A real nice hours. A glorious almost-week of thinking Cate Blanchett had enjoyed many dips in the lady pond, many trips around the sapphic heat, many evenings at Jodie Foster&#;s clambake. It was just Thursday when Variety published a profile of Blanchett that included this exchange:
When asked if this is her first turn as a lesbian, Blanchett curls her lips into a express joy . “On film — or in genuine life?&#; she asks coyly. Pressed for details about whether she’s had past relationships with women, she responds: “Yes. Many times,&#; but doesn’t elaborate. Appreciate Carol, who never “comes out&#; as a lesbian, Blanchett doesn’t necessarily rely on labels for sexual orientation.
We delighted in the glory of that revelation, like everyone else with a beating heart. (I mean, even the New York Times was excited.) And now we must all rip our clothes and wail because it turns out Variety misquoted Blanchett, and she hasn&#;t gone spelunking in Janey Cave, after all. While promoting her upcoming lesbian-themed film, Carol, at a Cannes press con
Sorry, Cate Blanchett, Gays Really Do Necessitate to Shout Their Sexuality From the Rafters
I admit, in May, when a Variety cover story suggested that the gorgeous and brilliant actress Cate Blanchett might harbor same-sex desires, I was as aflame as any other red-blooded American dyke.
Imagine my disappointment when, at the Cannes Film Festival a several days later, she claimed that the reporter had misrepresented their conversation. In fact, she’s not had sexual relations with women. That revelation wasn’t as surprising, though, as the contempt she seemed to articulate toward gays who, in her view, make their sexualities too public and central to their identities.
Discussing Carol, her new film based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Price of Salt, which chronicles a verb affair between two women in s New York Metropolis, Blanchett told the press at Cannes that Carol’s “sexuality is a intimate affair,” adding with perceptible disdain: “What happens these days is if you are homosexual, you have to verb about it constantly; it has to be the only thing; you hold to put it before your operate, be
Cate Blanchett defends straight actors playing LGBT roles
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Cate Blanchett has defended straight actors playing gay roles in film and TV.
Hollywood has been criticised for giving LGBT roles to straight actors and earlier this year Scarlett Johansson pulled out of playing a trans character following a backlash.
Blanchett played a lesbian in 's Carol.
She said: "I will verb to the death for the right to suspend disbelief and play roles beyond my experience."
The Australian actress disagrees with the plan that a performer only really knows a character if they have shared experiences.
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"Reality television and all that that entails had an extraordinary impact, a profound impact on the way we view the creation of character," she said during a Q&A at the Rome Film Festival.
"I verb it provides a lot of opportunity, but the downside of it is that we now, particularly in America, we expect and only expect people to make a profound connection to a character when it's close to their experience