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Online exclusive! ELLE interviews Cate Blanchett
The elegant actress openly chats with ELLE Canada about her upcoming roles.
By Egle Procuta
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Cate Blanchett plans to be at the Toronto International Film Festival this fall. "With bells on," she told ELLE Canada in a wide-ranging interview in the September edition that hits newsstands on August 13th.
All eyes will be upon the Australian mega-star when The Golden Age, a sequel to the critically acclaimed Elizabeth, receives its world premiere in Toronto. Talking to ELLE, Blanchett described her excitement at revisiting the character of the gutsy 16th-century monarch that first shot her to international fame in 1998.
But Blanchett will play double-duty in Toronto, representing a second -- and very different film from The Golden Age -- that will also play at the festival.
I'm Not There promises a stunningly unique look at Bob Dylan. In an antithesis of the classic rock biopic, director Todd Haynes has six very different actors interpreting characters who represent the essence of Dylan -- his heart and soul -- more than the nuts and bolts of his life.
In yet another example of her astonishing versatility and creative daring, Blanchett plays one of these versions of Dylan. She discusses the film, and more about her extraordinary career, in this exclusive excerpt on ELLE Canada Online.
Tell us about your character in I'm Not There.
I play a musician who's on tour, kind of self-combusting and taking a lot of drugs.
It's a man's character, but it's played by a woman which I think is really smart. In terms of the visual iconography of the film -- the period that a lot of people associate with the moment when Dylan went electric -- it's very visually recognizable. The hair, the suits. Todd wanted that silhouette.
To have a man inhabit that silhouette, people would have been looking much more for Dylan. But because I'm a woman playing it, you've already got that Brechtian relationship set up with the audience, where you're already saying, this is not really what it seems, or is it?
Who are some of the other characters?
The film puts Dylan's persona into six different characters, if you will, and then assigns them each a different gender and race, and puts them in a different in point in history.
Christian Bale plays an evangelical Christian rock musician. Heath Ledger plays an actor. Richard Gere plays this sort of wanderer. And this astonishing young actor (Marcus Carl Franklin) plays a sort of Woody Guthrie figure at the age of 12 or 13, jumping boxcars.
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