It’s his first movie in 16 years, a fact he attributes at least partially to struggles with financing. Tár was written and directed by Todd Field, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker of In the Bedroom and Little Children. She couldn’t stop smiling through it all. On opening night in October, I joined her for a public Q&A at the AMC in Century City, Los Angeles, and when I asked how she felt about the tricky ending, she threw the topic to the audience in an instant, engaging with and validating diverging theories. She worked very hard on it, and she’s compelled by its thorny, prescient provocations. Blanchett has promoted it tirelessly since its premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September, which is not typical of an actor of her status, with two Oscars to her name and a profile hardly at risk of declining. In the film, she plays a revered orchestra conductor facing a public reckoning. Well, a screening or something else-it’s hard to keep track. But because there was so much to do, it meant that there wasn’t any time for nerves.”īlanchett has another screening of Tár later tonight, she tells me as we get going.
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“And that was my introduction to Cate Blanchett.”īlanchett had to learn how to conduct, to master the piano, to speak German: “I was utterly terrified of it. “Everybody was as still as she was, transfixed by the stillness that she created,” he says. Greenwood inched closer as if zooming in on an iconic photograph. He saw a striking silhouette of Blanchett, in costume as Dylan, cigarette in hand. He wandered the dark space, a little lost, and found some crew gathered around a white light. It had to have been 50 or 60 yards high and four times as long. “We both looked at each other and said, ‘Katharine Hepburn-there she is,’ ” he says.Ī few years later, on the set of Todd Haynes’s I’m Not There, in which Blanchett played a renegade mid-60s version of Bob Dylan, Bruce Greenwood had his own memorable sighting, this time in a cavernous warehouse. Scorsese, who was developing his next film, The Aviator, turned to his wife, only to find that she’d had the epiphany too. But as he watched her stride across the crowded ballroom-her floral dress and statement necklace shimmering-he had an epiphany. He didn’t know her personally, only her work. Martin Scorsese realized as much after spotting her 20 years ago at the Golden Globes. Time tends to stand still in the presence of Cate Blanchett.
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