Kate Blanchett Australian fur 46 outside sunlight, mother of four children and married for 18 years with lucky writer and playwright, is probably the actress of the moment. They adorn two Oscars and goes for the third. In fact, it aspires to be nominated by his last two films, “Carol” and “The truth.” In “Carol” plays a good lady, married and bored, which initiates a lesbian relationship with a young clerk in the New York of the 50s “Truth”, which is the film that gives us access to it in a Soho Hotel London is Mary Mapes Blanchett, a Texas journalist. In 2005, Mapes was fired from CBS after failing closed testing a story well.
In full election campaign he had accused George W. Bush of shirking Vietnam War hidden in the Texas Air National Guard, thanks to a familiar plug. Alongside Mapes also lost his pulpit Dan Rather, the institution of journalism that had stood up for exclusive classical program in the “60 Minutes”. Both continue to defend them right. She, who was lauded at the time with the Peabody Award for uncovering the torture at Abu Ghraib never returned to work in television. He retired with that label. “In Australia we also have a version of” 60 Minutes “and my father was American explains Blanchett-, so I understand well what that program is. It was the gold standard of television news. But the film goes beyond the particular story of Dan and Mary or CBS. It’s a universal story about how we receive the news and how to investigate journalists. “
Sitting on a sofa against seven journalists, minimalist Blanchett wears a blue suit, a little princess “Star Wars” and a yellow high heels. Your skin is a white papyrus is very thin and forearms are fibrous. As presupposed, it is a very beautiful woman, even so, no one micron paint. But in person it is neither goddess nor as cold as those of Tolkien elven deities that incarnate. He is sensed inner rib. Wrings his hands and head sinks a little while trying to respond to questions criterion. This year and drew his fire on a television, when promoted the film “Cinderella” and a reporter asked how he managed to handle the cat that appeared in the screen: “Is that your question? That’s your fucking question? “He replied with grimaces disgusted.
A childhood easy
Blanchett did not have an easy childhood. The meeting of parents was film. She was an Australian teacher and he, a Texas Petty Officer US Navy, who once docked in Melbourne, married her and reconverted advertising executive. But he died when I was ten Cate and mother entered the world of real estate development to bring their children forward. Mary Mapes, the producer who made journalist Dan Rather at CBS for more than ten years, was also Texas and parental trauma: his father, an alcoholic, abused in their infancia.La the actress met the journalist after he reads the book on which the film, entitled “: the press, the president of power and privilege and duty Truth” is based. Mapes based its complaint against Bush in some incriminating photocopy happened a former air base. Once issued the report, the electoral machinery of Bush, Karl Rove with the business front, found proof that ended a devastating sinking credibility of the work of Mapes and Rather: the famous accusing photocopies, which in theory dating back to the seventies, They used a typeface that Microsoft Word was released in the XXI century.
CBS organized an ethics committee with external judges, chaired by a former attorney general of the Bush administration, which condemned the work of Mapes. There were seven more layoffs. Rather, after apologizing for having aired in antenna poorly contrasted information left by the back door in less than a year. Before the ethics committee, the journalist said that although there could be mistakes in the details, the whole story was true.
Mary Mapes Are you still bitter about what happened?
‘Not bitter, no. He has moved on, although slurred wounds, of course, was destroyed her reputation and career. Oscillates between anger and forgiveness, but the wounds are there, and I think also on CBS. She laments how fast the story and forgot details.
-The Program with the complaint against Bush was issued on September 8, 2004, at the gates of the presidential election and November when Kerry was measured. It’s been a long time that …
“The film is also about how a story is constructed and how it is published”
-Only We examine something of the past, something that has happened over ten years ago, if you have contemporary relevance. It is a very particular moment in American news organizations. We usually do not question the proximity of politicians to news organizations, or who owns it, or what is behind schedule. The film also is about how a story is constructed and how it is published. But eleven years after the issuance of that it is true that the way it is consumed and distributed information has changed enormously. There was still Twitter!
To play Dan Rather, who was 72 when the program cost the position issued, has chosen Robert Redford, 79. Blanchett lavishes great praise for his co-star: “It was a privilege to have Robert on film. Not only because he was already in “All the President’s Men” [film Pakula 1996 on the Watergate investigation], but because it’s an extraordinary actor he is so into American culture! It is fascinating to be with him. It’s so disarming and natural acting. But in the same way that “All the President’s Men” not far “Washington Post” and Nixon, this is not about CBS and Bush, but how people get to the stories and how controversial are some of them. “
Robert Redford
And that’s when you have the bad idea to tell Redford seems too stiff, that rather than improving the worse news, “Why do you say that? Blanchett asks a little annoyed Robert Redford is an institution. Dan Rather was no chick was no fresh-faced broadcaster Sky News. You have to find someone for the role of the same cultural and iconographic significance. Redford alone can do that. “
To encourage the party, Blanchett poses to the paradox that at a time when they are making a movie with a progressive tone praised the work of journalism, the truth is that the commercial machinery of the film only allows interviews with her format short and controlled. “Well, that depends on the interest and timeliness of topic, right? Who is going to read an article about me ten pages? I do not know of course “responds laughing.
“I never knew if Bob Dylan liked my interpretation of the”
The film “Truth” is the commitment of a first-time director, James Vanderbilt, a man of 39, speaking expansive and affectionate and very black hair and beard and some hipsterianos. Vanderbilt was the screenwriter of the latest “Spider-Man” saga and the excellent “Zodiac”, which already addressed the problems of journalism. It was done with the rights of the book by Mary Mapes in 2005 and has waited ten years to make a film of his story, which has produced himself risking your money. “He risked much. First-time directors often do not have a second chance. I had to hit the shot. “
He needed to target known actors, “the kind that people want to see the front of the stories.” How got a fledgling director Cate Blanchett, a diva with two Oscar in tow? “I sent the script to the agent Cate, that is precisely what happened on the morning of the day she won her second Oscar. I thought: 1) Do not go and read. 2) If you read it, he will say: “After my second Oscar do not want to deal with a first-time director.” The amazing thing is that she, if you want to do something, do it. He called me, we talked half an hour and committed. “
Blanchett is an actress without fear. “When a director asks you to do something you have not done before you assume a risk. I do not mind doing a role of three lines or 30 pages, you just do it. There are terrible scripts that give good films and great scripts in reverse. ” In 2007 he dared to embody the young Bob Dylan in “I’m Not There”, directed by Todd Haynes, who has repeated in “Carol”. But Cate did not know the enigma: “No, I never met Bob Dylan. I had a very frustrating about it in one of the first screenings of the film conversation. Someone came and said: “I saw Bob”. And he began to speak: “Yes, Bob told me blah blah blah …”. But there was a huge uproar. I said, “What, what?”, But did not understand anything. Bob never knew if you liked the movie “Blanchett tops with a loose laugh.
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