She doesn’t watch her own movies, dislikes talking about how much of herself she brings to a role and sometimes just feels like a long walk. Which doesn’t stop Cate Blanchett from being at the peak of her powers in her new film, Tár.
, written and directed by Todd Field , Blanchett plays Lydia Tár, a virtuosic conductor at the peak of her career and at the precipice of a downfall. It’s as intimate and sustained a character study as Blanchett has ever taken on: Tár is more than two and a half hours long, and she is onscreen for nearly every frame.
To prepare, which Blanchett did mostly on nights and weekends because she was shooting other projects during the day, she learned to play the piano, to speak German, to do her own stunt driving. She became versed in the history of orchestral music and the personal styles and biographies of the famous conductors of the past century.Most improbably, she learnt to conduct an orchestra, a physical task for which most people train for years.
Upton made a noise as if to say, “Whatever,” and Blanchett shrugged. “Next time. You can say we did,” she said, grinning at me. Then she pointed at her son’s pyjamas and added, “Along with the fact that he’s wearing a suit.” Her mother, June, popped into the kitchen to see about lunch. There was a lot of merry cross talk.We sat down to eat on a covered veranda just through double doors from the kitchen, passing the sausages and salad back and forth.
“Spike Milligan had on his grave, ‘I told you I was ill’ – what am I going to have on mine? ‘The hardest-working person’? That’s so depressing!” Blanchett keeps an intimidating schedule. This northern summer, in addition to post-production and publicity, she was also spending her days commuting two hours each way from her home to London to shoot a television project with Alfonso Cuarón. After wrapping that project, she would do the festivals tour for, about an Indigenous orphan who becomes the ward of a “renegade nun”, whom she would play.
She looked at me wearily. “No, I haven’t. And sorry for being … vague. I haven’t been sleeping.” Her kids were on summer holiday; she was preoccupied with the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v Wade; generally the world seemed to be “tilting off its axis”. She rubbed her forehead lightly. “When do I sleep? No.” She laughed.
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