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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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It sounds completely original.
Yes, it's a very unusual and delicate film. It's quite robust and muscular in the risks that it takes. But it's going to be an interesting thing to see how people connect with it. People say it's a biopic. But it's not.
How is it different from a traditional biopic?
It's when you put all the characters together that you get a sense of Dylan's journey.
If you juxtapose all those things together, and if you know a lot about Dylan, then you get an immense pleasure in getting all of the references. And if you don't know Dylan, then you get a sense of how to lead a creative life. The film operates on a lot of levels. It's out there.
Did Dylan have a special resonance for you as you were growing up?
Absolutely. He's kind of associated with freedom for me. I really got into him when I left home, when I was 17 to go travelling. But it was when I went to drama school afterwards that he had the most resonance.
What's your favourite Dylan song?
Well (long pause) that's sort of like asking who your favourite lover was. All the songs, they're all so different and it really depends. I listened to Highway 61 a lot when we were filming. It was just the energy of it. But probably (another long pause)… oh god, I can't say what my favourite is.
Do you sing?
Oh yes, I sing all the time. But in this film, because I'm playing a man, Todd decided he wanted a man's voice to come out of my mouth.
What do you think of biopics?
I don't tend to idolize musicians or actors or politicians or writers. It's more what people do that interests me. So I'm not a great biographer reader. Although, you know, as I get older, that's kind of changing.
What do you mean? You got spectacular response – and an Academy Award – for your interpretation of Katherine Hepburn in The Aviator.
Yes, I did enjoy A. Scott Berg's Kate Remembered about Katharine Hepburn. At the very beginning, it has a disclaimer saying 'I know her too well, so this will not be impartial.' Because that's the general thing about biographies, particularly biographies of rock stars, and even more so biographies of Bob Dylan. It's all about the writer and very little about the subject.
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