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Published on 2024/08/08
Someone said to me:
There’s an offer for you to leave.
and playing an elf in New Zealand.
I went, oh, an elf to New Zealand.
And I said, what’s the story?
And they said it from The Lord of the Rings.
I thought, oh, to do The Lord of the Rings.
And I said: who runs it? Peter Jackson.
I stopped talking
And they said, yes, you don’t need to do that, do you?
They didn’t understand why he didn’t speak.
What the best job looks like.
[upbeat music]
The Aviator.
[energetic music]
You know what I mean?
Me in the magazines that you played golf.
Occasionally.
Well, how about the holes?
Now, Mr. Hughes?
If it’s you, Miss Hepburn.
Me Catherine Hepburn in The Aviator.
It’s Howard Hughes
and they had a very public audience,
Even though they tried to keep this love clandestine
His love for cinema, his love for audacity.
I was filming a western with Ron Howard.
I had had a baby
And my oldest son learning to walk in the snow
and it was idyllic.
And I went out with the Malborough boy every day.
And it doesn’t get any bigger than that.
And then they called me saying
that Martin Scorsese that he seeks to have in my hands.
He had a script he wanted to send me.
and I collapsed to my knees.
I think I’m very nervous about communicating with him.
because I knew what he asked me to do,
I’m going to say yes.
And then we talked about betting on Catherine Hepburn.
And I like it, okay, this is the end of my career.
The movie will be amazing.
Because he’s, you know, he’s the master.
But yes, I was scared.
I was the first time I saw Sylvia Scarlet.
and I was impressed.
And then watch Philadelphia Story
and all those crazy comedies.
How are you, my dear?
It’s much bigger now than it is here.
Ah, I guess it has to be love, huh?
You believe that is correct, Mr. Connor.
I’m your trusty old dog tray.
She is so extraordinary. There is no one like her.
What’s on the steering wheel?
Cellophane.
If you had one of the
that other people carry in their hands.
What kind of? You don’t need to know.
Well, the first thing is to attack.
the apparent maximum portions of the character,
how they move, how they talk,
What is so unique about Hepburn.
But the most is that
You have to say
For the director, what global am I entering?
Because it’s not a movie about Catherine Hepburn.
It had to be compatible with that, with the story it tells.
And he was like this in the way he told me:
You are an amazing blonde.
You can just be blonde and you don’t have to look like her.
I mean, my God, his voice is so annoying, you know?
Or you know, it’s just looking to make me feel better.
And it’s very liberating for him to tell me that.
‘Cause it took away any residual feelings
that I do things right.
Then I to myself:
I play a in a Martin Scorsese film.
But the glorious thing that Scorsese does,
And I do it with all his films, it’s
which screened a series of films that had an energy
the way he looked for me to interpret the characters.
Tried about four
or five other films that gave us tone and texture
and a world to play in.
He sought Hepburn’s first access to history to fix it
to hit your head back.
The follow-up is in golf, just as it is in life.
[laughs] Don’t you mind?
In the same way she had to do that.
with the first time he saw her,
the power he brought to the screen.
I love theater, I am alive on stage.
I’ll show you, let’s see some Ibsen.
If the Republicans have still banned it.
You’re a Republican, aren’t you? I couldn’t stand that.
How did you vote in 32?
Well, I didn’t. You must.
This is your sacred frankness.
But what happened, when I saw the movie that I love to watch, was
evidently when Hepburn and Howard Hughes separated
and locked himself in his projection room.
And obviously, when I see this scene with Leo,
he was on the other side of the door.
Then I saw his edit of things. Exactly what I imagined.
Because even his voice is too painful to pay attention to.
I can’t, baby.
You won’t.
And then see the picture on the side.
It was indeed heartbreaking. [Upbeat Music]
The Lord of the Rings?
Who could have known, all of us, fans and girls?
I mean, I went painting with Peter Jackson.
I am a great admirer of his paintings and his reverence.
And his, you know, his love next door
stuff.
[Interviewer] You are a fan of his horror works.
I love it, I grew up on horror.
and all that Braindead stuff.
I mean, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it.
And it was a lot of fun, you know, but still being
so disgusting and scary.
It’s over. [dramatic music]
And so, by imagining his sensitivity to those stories,
that a bit like a Holy Grail
of a certain aspect of, you know, the literary canon.
I imagine that would be it.
because you have to ask when you adapt
something so enjoyed and has such meaning
And a position for the people, why?
What are you going to do with that?
But who could have known that it would be like this?
took off as it did?
[Interviewer] First voice, the first one you hear.
Yes. It all started with the forging of the Great Rings.
Three given to the elves, immortal, the wisest,
and the righteous maximum of all beings.
I believe it in the original scripts,
But I don’t think I’ve fully calculated it.
which would be the first.
Because when you pick up a script for the first time and read it,
You are the story.
All of them very interested,
that I found exciting,
the fact that to be a force for good
or force, you have
to have the darkness inside.
And that’s why they’re very interested,
even if I don’t think the ebook necessarily leans
in this strongly.
Although they have their Tolkien justifications for it.
[Interviewer] Yes. They are interested
on a small scale.
You know, I’m in the dismantling of the idea.
darkness that may have been unleashed within her,
which she also tempted through the ring.
[Interviewer] Yes. Me filming that.
I don’t know, you know,
because Pete is just experiencing it
And I didn’t know it was necessarily going to be
to be in the ultimate film.
[Interviewer] There is a lot of intensity in the character.
Yes, that’s right. Yes.
like your experience
With The Hobbit returning to the character?
Oh well, I mean, I knew there was no chance of a snowflake
Damn, I’m taking on my part in all of this
But I sent Pete a crazy saying, you know,
If you put Galadriel in it, I’m free.
I will come. [laughs]
You know, I’ll sail my boat.
But I am. I do that.
It was special.
I mean, I was there for 3 weeks.
in The Lord of the Rings, and I think I have been,
You know, in The Hobbit, I was there maybe 3 days.
[Interviewer] Ah, yes. But it was special
even so, yes.
[Interviewer] Did you point out when Guillermo del Toro
was it still or?
Yes. Yes.
I believe it originally.
Yes.
[Interviewer] Always there in my mind,
this universe of choice where he,
You know, I love hers too.
Yeah.
They are such special directors.
and special, and you can see completely
the crossover, though, they, you know, do things
and they create worlds in their own way.
I mean, you know, it would have been the same.
like special, but different.
[speaking a language]
Thor: Ragnarok, I don’t play Thor.
I wasn’t going to play Thor.
Well, you know, Natalie Portman Thor. . .
Well, yes. I know they were muscles.
[Interviewer] It’s a lot of work. A lot of work.
It wasn’t CGI.
You’ll have to be Hela.
I am Thor, son of Odin.
Oh, really? You don’t look like him.
Perhaps we can reach an agreement.
You look like him.
Kneel.
Excuse me.
Well, I had noticed Taika’s and enjoyed them.
I had heard this happening
but I didn’t think anything about it.
And then they called me saying that Taika wanted to meet me.
Me too. . .
I said, yeah, sure.
And I didn’t know what it was, it’s just that,
even if he tried to say hello
And then he asked me if I was in it.
You know, Marvel is used necessarily.
have a story,
So there’s nothing, you know, often
will embark on battles
and they will start painting backwards.
While they create their stories, their stories.
You know, it’s a huge puzzle.
a puzzle that I don’t know.
What I didn’t realize
So it’s the first time that a villain a woman
It was made from the screen.
That was exciting.
Who are you? What did you do with Thor?
[shouts a soldier]
My is Hela.
But I knew Taika was going to
to give it your own touch
and that Chris is so willing to do anything, incredibly generous.
and fun and in a position to show kindness
to move this in that direction.
So I felt like it had a playful and exciting power.
Fresh winds were blowing. How amazing.
It was great. And I mean, I learned a lot. [laughs]
I literally
what I’m still doing in Borderlands,
not to go pew pew when you shoot the guns.
‘Cause you have to throw away a lot of things
of your pieces will be CGI in your hand.
You know, Chris’s hammer throw lessons.
about how this can make it look like a mime.
The power had to come from the arm.
I mean, I did, I learned a lot of comfortable skills.
Are you Asgard? It’s yours.
No matter what game you play, it may not work.
You can’t beat me. I don’t know.
But he can.
In fact, it is a massive action.
The scene was filmed entirely outdoors.
And Zoe Bell had come out of retirement.
to be Hela’s understudy.
Oh my God, a lot of Zoe. She’s so cool.
So paint with Zoé and I do my part.
And watching her do those amazing things, it’s like, oh,
My jaw hit the floor.
She is amazing.
[upbeat music]
Tar?
I’m not the right person
Ask since I don’t read reviews.
Never, really? No.
But I think it’s strange that he’s ever felt obligated
Replace Master with Master.
I mean, we don’t call female astronauts astronauts.
This is a tragedy.
Often in tragedies, we forget, you know,
What We Know About the Forces That Cause the Fall
or the tragic development of events as external
to the central characters in whom we must invest.
But to see something
where the tragedy of an implosion is so
Because an explosion was an attractive thing to play.
Which is difficult.
It was complicated, very complicated, for me to communicate about a film.
It connected me so deeply that I didn’t need to
too aware of it.
I didn’t need to tell the audience what to think about it,
because I felt there was a lot to implement
which we did not have an area to communicate.
So for me, it existed on a metaphorical level.
layer and just as it existed, literally.
I think other people are obsessed with literal gender.
of circumstances, which are quite, quite,
they are elusive and mysterious.
[Interviewer] Yes. So it’s a little bit
of a hasty check of how other people read the film
or read the scenario and what they said
or what they have interpreted.
[Researcher] Based on your experiences.
with so many other stories happening.
Yes. It’s interesting.
If we hear a smell or two of a sure story,
Let’s take a look at this aspect of the story.
instead of letting the story unfold.
And that happens to me a lot with everything.
in the verbal exchange is that we understand each other
what he says and we start making judgments
and perceptions of what is happening
being told to allow that person’s account
in fact, it develops.
[Interviewer] Yes. Free from our senses
of judgment.
[classical music]
[Interviewer] Physical functionality on your part
as an orchestra conductor.
[laughs] Yes. Yes.
It’s terrifying. It’s terrifying.
I was filming Borderlands in Hungary,
Like a movie made from the construction of a video game up to here.
And, obviously, the blockade is still in force.
and that is why none of the operas are released.
I couldn’t take piano lessons in person.
Despite everything I was able to,
I discovered a piano teacher in Budapest,
Emese Virág and so that she can nevertheless teach me face to face
and she took me to the hallways and,
But they all had to be chosen
and learned.
And then I had a lot of Zoom
Zoom calls about it.
But it’s so cool.
It’s a bit like when I prepare.
To play Bob Dylan, I played Elizabeth I.
Lydia Tár and Borderlands went crazy.
But if you mean the last image.
from where she is, you know, a video conference,
There is an irony in this.
Yes, yes, yes. There are monster hunters.
Yes. [classical music]
[Narrator] Sisters and brothers of the Fifth Fleet,
It’s time.
I’m on set with Jamie Lee Curtis.
and she was, Jamie Lee.
As if he had a surname.
You know, she asks me
Which I did because I’m nice
move in a way.
And he had Marla’s fifth-out score.
And I’m looking to put my notes, you know,
Because I had classes
And she laughed, you know,
of the absurdity of preparing
this role while on the set of Borderlands.
[upbeat music]
Blue jasmine.
You know, and I can’t be alone, Ginger.
I have a bad mind when I’m alone.
Well, you know, all I can say is that you look great.
Now, who is lying?
You know, I’m up all night.
I’m very excited to be here.
[Black-haired character] Yes.
I didn’t know how angry you were.
You know, I Jasmine in Blue Jasmine
And it’s someone
who got married
from his community where his sister lives
and, in a way, it has completely reinvented itself.
Like streets where she grew up.
She is getting divorced and has no money.
and she has to go back to her sister.
So it’s a little bit like,
If you are from the tram called Désir,
the Tennessee Williams on a road a kind of
from a Woody Allen lens of the Upper East Side.
And that is the place where you are.
Are you from here?
New York, Park Avenue.
And when my husband passed away, I was understandably very upset.
So I come here
and a new life begins for me.
Whete did
He is a surgeon.
[Interviewer] It is known that most of the film takes place
In San Francisco
and I think it’s one of the wonderful San Francisco films.
Is.
Initially, I thought we were filming in San Francisco.
by trams,
but there is a scene on a tram that he later cut.
So I don’t think I wanted to make comparisons to that,
but from my point of view,
Because we don’t have time to film anything, for a long time.
Take or take a shot. [laughs]
My spouse and I ran
very similar to the de facto theater in Australia.
And in our first season we scheduled a production.
by Streetcar, directed by Liv Ullmann.
And so I did and we toured a lot.
And that’s how I had lived with the cases in this work.
for a long time.
I’m very slow.
And then I felt that I could contribute a lot
from this undeniable underground of circumstances
of those sets of relationships in this film.
Which was useful because we were going very fast.
The final scene we filmed.
And then we had to do it again, which I thought, oh my God,
It’s a kind of state to be in.
He is complete as a herald.
They talk, they talk.
Me Danny.
I think he sought to rewrite it,
But then you think, well, I do.
that each and every night at the theater
so I can go back and do it again.
And in reality it is so, it has happened several times.
where we had to go back and take something back.
And if you felt like a group
People had come to a nearby place
something interesting,
can be a bit disappointing,
but it is desirable to start again.
[Interviewer] Yes. You know,
try again.
We can in Palm Beach, can I use, what can I use?
I can wear the Dior dress I bought in Paris.
Yes. My black dress.
Well, Hal surprised me with jewelry.
hit into pieces.
If you pay attention to people, you know,
Like if I were Australian I would become,
My accessory will be more powerful when it is safe
As I glide to where I am
to the shame of my children.
You pay attention to everyone who is trans,
as if I’ve lived in England for a while
and I have friends who have lived in England for a shorter period of time,
But they seem more British than me.
‘Cause that’s where they,
where they took off or are deeply connected to
And something transformative happened, you know?
in that specific position for them to be,
makes them one,
and other people never lose their accent.
[Interviewer] It’s true. It doesn’t matter where they move.
But I think Jasmine is one of the other people who is a real
survivor. Yeah.
And that is why it is vital to integrate
and eliminate his afterlife was, you know,
an act of survival.
[Interviewer] They say Australians are the best
to make accents.
Think?
I guess being colonized by the British,
you know, and culturally colonized through the Americans.
And there are many calls
For Australian characters internationally, you know,
unless you paint from home.
[Interviewer] I want to see you
pictured in Mad Max.
And there you have it. Talk to Jorge.
[Interviewer] And some horror too.
You have to get into it.
I know. I have to fuck some of them.
[upbeat music]
I’m there.
I think it’s the procedure itself, it’s a fool.
Man, I think?
And I am the president. I am a shepherd.
I’m a storyteller, man. That’s all I am.
Todd Haynes, you know, you’ve noticed his work, Carol.
or more The months of May, December,
which is extraordinary.
He made a Bob Dylan envelope
where he divided Dylan’s into,
There were seven characters, other times,
Personalities and actors.
And I play one.
Heath Ledger One and Christian
and Michelle Williams also in my specific section.
We weren’t all there at the same time.
But I’m incredibly excited about, you know,
Richard Gere on horseback and this western version.
I am the
when he did the ’68 tour.
♪ Like me, all ♪ of you
[Interviewer] Perhaps the best is a laughing version.
Oh my god, it’s so much fun.
I love Highway 61.
And me getting ready
that is why when I Queen Elizabeth
And I watching all the excerpts
for the documentary Penny Baker
and the documentary Penny Baker on Loop.
But to see, you know, everything
press meetings he gave in Stockholm and Paris
and in London and its interface with the media.
It’s crazy. They just didn’t know it.
You would see these other people literally not knowing what to do.
Was that an answer? Are you with us?
[Interviewer] Yes. It’s so formal,
Interaction with the press.
and the expectations were so absolute that the artists had
to give meaning to what they had to justify their work,
They had to tell someone what to think.
He wasn’t going to do that.
Yes.
Some have questioned,
Based on your recent recordings, it’s
or not, you still care about other people like before.
Yeah, but you know, we all have our own definitions
of all those words.
Attention and people.
Well, we all know the definition of people.
[Laughter]
Actually ?
[Interviewer] Are you ahead?
To the biopic of Timothée Chalamet?
Yes. Be curious.
I mean, there’s a lot to be said for relaxing.
In this life everything has to be true.
Movies don’t necessarily reflect reality,
but this is the feeling of the thing.
[Interviewer] Yes. You know.
[Upbeat Music]
Carol.
What was your favorite doll when you were four years old?
Me?
I’ve never done it, many to be honest.
I’m sorry. Smoking is allowed in the sales area.
Ah, everything. Forgive me, buying food makes me nervous.
Who is Carole?
Well, it’s a creation in the spirit of Patricia Highsmith.
Phyllis Nagy directed the script, which was just magnificent.
And after all, Todd came on board to direct it.
And I think it’s hard to remember
‘Cause so many have changed
and still want to replace in terms of screen rendering
and same-sex relationships
that were being explored and were being realized.
I mean, it wasn’t so apart,
I, who, because of the lack of a non-suicidal attitude,
Tragic endings of gay stories.
It’s quite a barren landscape in the mainstream.
[Interviewer] Yes. And then I got so excited
and moved that he resounded with
and continues to resonate with people.
You know, because I think Todd has an effect on the way these
The stories told are so moving and powerful.
and timeless.
Photographer.
I do, if I have the ability to do it.
Isn’t that something other people have told you?
And all you can do is keep working, use what’s right,
throw away the rest.
I guess.
Do you want to show me your work?
It was vital to the look of the film.
16 millimeters.
This dictated the length of our shots.
But I knew it was super vital to the look.
To try
and do, when despite everything it was transferred to digital
to give it a kind of softness and depth
and a large number of colors.
What a Ed Lachman, who I’ve worked with a few now!
And he’s such a wonderful filmmaker that it just means that
That you had to be focused
Because we couldn’t let it go for long.
The times I worked with Todd, I had the feeling
that the decorations are intimate.
Create this environment where obviously
with an eye and immense skills
and such a
A porous but at the same time look at the stories.
that he tells.
But it still creates this feeling as if we are simply
make a film.
So, a kind of liberating feeling of taking risks.
quality that he creates in his sets,
which is quite remarkable.
[upbeat music]
Borders.
[Character] Tunter.
You come in search of the secret vault
of Pandora.
I play Lilith in Borderlands,
which was transposed from this video game.
And they send me back to my home planet.
and shout, who is in Pandora, let’s try it
and locate a safe, which I don’t even think exists.
Having lived through a kind of The Lord of the Rings,
What kind of start of it all?
of this generation that is moving to the forefront.
And then Hela at Marvel in Thor,
where there is a lot of green screen.
Yes. And mocap suits.
I kind of thought, Borderlands, oh,
It comes from a video game, that’s what it will be in an ILM.
scene and I’m going to have stitches all over my face
or a camera on me, everything will be done in the post.
I’m passing to be scanned and I’m passing to pass home.
When Eli joined to lead it, which is
how did I find out, he said, no, really. . .
He Jodorowsky,
Sergio Leones, westerns
Where you can sand it, you know how hot it gets.
And other people are sweating
and tried to make it a little sweatier.
And this was, you know, it’s
Where does having fingerless gloves come from?
So when I heard those references
and I knew it would be shot on the ground in Budapest.
And I’m going to be on the level of genuine people
that’s why it was
during the pandemic when we filmed it.
I got really excited about all that.
Starring: Cate Blanchett
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