But I am wrong
Posted in General on 10. Aug, 2010
But I am wrong.’”In Thank God He Met Lizzie, Blanchett plays an extraordinarily beautiful bride, but contributes a lot more than a pretty face. I mean, she may not have been any of those things: how do you actually know?”She is not sure how Elizabeth will emerge from the cutting room: “Often the experience of making a film is completely different to how it comes across on screen. When somebody is that much in the public eye, people talk; and gossip, particularly over the centuries, becomes fact And fact often becomes irrelevant. When you’re writing to the queen, you’re not gonna, you know, tell the trout what she really looks like, particularly when you’re dealing with someone who is perhaps highly-strung, perhaps quite neurotically brilliant and quite emotionally fragile And I’m making that up. “It’s more a metaphorical thing – about what happens in public to the private self, and the melding of the heart and head.”Shekhar Kapur looked at the beginning and end points of Elizabeth’s reign, and then invented, and said, ‘what if?’ What if Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, was in fact the love of her life? Which may or may not have been true.
There are so many varied reports about her – she was a hermaphrodite, she was a man, she was asexual, she was unable to have children – and I think it’s like what happened to Princess Diana. I don’t like to be molly- coddled in any way, but it’s important to know that you have someone’s trust. And I felt trusted.”BLANCHETT WAS filming Oscar and Lucinda when she heard that she had won the part of Elizabeth. So she would go from playing one complex character, opposite Ralph Fiennes, to playing another, opposite Joseph Fiennes, Ralph’s younger brother.
She found Elizabeth just as compelling as Lucinda, but “It’s hard when you play an historical figure. There’s a sense of reverence, but you do need to find the dramatic reason for telling the story.” True to form, the director of The Bandit Queen has flouted the first rule of history, chronology “There’s no timeline to the film,” Blanchett explains. And Gill loves actors, so she creates an environment where you can play. I think he was probably aware that it would be quite daunting for me – although he’s very self-deprecating.”Her admiration is no less heartfelt for Gillian Armstrong. “She can be forthright and scratchy, but she’s just so compassionate, and I find that, in all her films, she’s interested in the deep, real connections between people, that aren’t romanticised at all. It was simple,” she says, still sounding awed more than a year on.
But the dexterity that the croupiers have with the cards is not unlike a magician’s. It’s really quite beautiful.”She was thrilled to work with Fiennes – as, by all accounts, he was to work with her “It was wonderful. Cartagena calculates that he has to shoot the gear only one more time. Moreno serves pulpo a la gallega, octopus with oil, red pepper and potatoes, to celebrate. The faces around the table look exhausted.I go to the fo’c’sle, where the evening sun comes through the winch door like a slab of butter. The walls are plastered with pictures from porn magazines: huddles of bodies frozen in climactic moments.
“Now we’re heading home,” explains a deckhand, “we have to get in the mood.”Angel is locked into a lengthy debate on the radio. Opening the front door and going for a walk.I am telling friends about the trip, trying to explain what I have learned. Vaughan’s group have already prepared a master plan for sports funding for the next 10 years that could be put into immediate action. I think she kept building up a brittle exterior because she felt that she was jello inside. In order to function in a very male world, she had to have a discipline and a sense of duty that made her, in her sub-life, want to be completely reckless: not only to get rid of the blood money she’d inherited, but also to abandon herself to someone or something.”To play Lucinda, Blanchett not only had to convey her contradictions with a flicker of facial muscle, but learn to deal and shuffle like a croupier “Ralph and I played a lot cards We went to casinos, which are so depressing. “So they both keep bumping, not only into each other, but into the world around them. It’s almost like they’re able to forget themselves, and the physical reality around them, and the restrictions of their time, through falling in love.