“It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.”
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Kate Winslet & Cate Blanchett at the 2007 Palm Springs International Film Festival
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Rosetzky met with Blanchett and recorded an interview with the actor at her office at the Sydney Theatre Company. Rosetzky was interested in Blanchett’s relationship to the various roles she has played, in their performance and the transformation that this involved. Rosetzky says ‘I asked fairly general questions about that – such as “how do you see the roles that you play – what are they for you?” or “how do you prepare for a role?” and so on. Cate is extremely articulate and was very generous and open with her responses.’ From an hour of recorded material Rosetzky selected elements from the interview to create a structure for the work :
I’m really bad at describing them. I do see them as people, but they’re not completely formed in a way that you can dream about a person, but when you wake from the dream they’re shadowy, more of an essence. They’re there to do something, they want something, so… perhaps it’s a state, a desire, and once you connect with that state and desire and its place in the whole, its place in the world, once you form a connection with that, then they start to take on a form or shape.
People talk about falling in love or liking them or having to form a connection. I’m quite impartial about them. I’m not very loyal. I sort of forget them. I don’t like them enough to remember them or hate them enough to remember them. You seem to have a lot of people telling you who you are, so I’ve actually thought less and less about who I actually am. And I’ve been content to let people say, you know, at one point, it’s strident or opiniated or fragile and needy or whatever you happen to be on the particular day you meet someone. I’ve never really had to assess it or decide upon that because who I am is constantly shifting. I try to do nothing consciously. I think that you have to enter a state of openess. You allow thoughts inside your head but they come and go. It’s like the moment between wakefulness and sleep : it’s not on it’s not off, it’s sort of… suspended. (x)
My… once in a lifetime, love of my life Andrew Upton, who taught me the meaning of true love and I’m—and [stammers] I’m so pleased I’ve met you, um… [laughs] — Cate Blanchett thanking her husband during her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes in 1999
I must admit, I’m more interested in the characters than I am in myself, and any connection that I have to the character, which hopefully is great, will be subliminal and subconscious. So I don’t like to think how can I make this character fit me, I think “What do I need to do to fit that?” — Cate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett on her favorite films:
I loved a film which I haven’t seen again, um, called Milo in the Phantom Tollbooth when I was growing up, and I loved, which I did see again recently was The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T I think it’s called, um, which was about a boy who was made to play piano and he had a little thing on his [gestures hand on her head] a little hand on his head. // Big Fellini fan, and… big big Bergman fan.
