{"id":1673938,"date":"2022-10-05T11:57:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T15:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1673938"},"modified":"2022-10-05T11:58:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T15:58:06","slug":"cate-blanchett-on-film-tar-we-were-standing-on-the-edge-of-a-cliff-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cate-blanchett-on-film-tar-we-were-standing-on-the-edge-of-a-cliff-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Cate Blanchett on film \u2018T\u00c1R\u2019: \u2018We were standing on the edge of a cliff every day\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcate-blanchett-on-film-tar-we-were-standing-on-the-edge-of-a-cliff-every-day%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1673938&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Hanna Rantala<\/p>\n<p>LONDON (Reuters) \u2013     Acclaimed Australian actor Cate Blanchett says the themes of her new drama \u201cT\u00c1R\u201d galvanised its cast and crew, making the film shoot \u201cthe most stimulating\u201d she had ever been on.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Blanchett plays Lydia T\u00e1r, a world-renowned gay conductor of a Berlin orchestra whose high-flying career comes tumbling down with an abuse scandal.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Blanchett credited the film\u2019s writer and director Todd Field for drawing the best out of his cast with often unscripted, spur-of-the-moment ideas.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cPeople talk about improvising but I felt like we were standing on the edge of a cliff every day saying, \u2018This may not work, let\u2019s give this a try\u2019, which was really exciting to make,\u201d she told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Field, who returns to filmmaking after 16 years, started writing the screenplay in March 2020 as the world around him began shutting down due to COVID-19. He finished the script in record time, writing the role of T\u00e1r specifically for Blanchett<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cSome of the questions that the film is trying to ask have been questions that I\u2019ve been asking myself for several years and trying to find the language to answer those questions, which I felt like I was failing miserably,\u201d Field said. \u201cAnd I felt like I was having a hard time finding that language from other people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The movie delves deep into the world of classical music and the complexities of orchestra life. It highlights a poisonous mix of sex, power and exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Field cast British-German cellist Sophie Kauer, 21, as young Russian musician Olga, who catches T\u00e1r\u2019s eye as she arrives to audition for a place in the orchestra and whose appointment upsets the group\u2019s power balance.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe ISM, or Incorporated Society of Musicians, just released a study saying that bullying, racism and sexual harassment in the classical music industry is at its all-time worst. So I feel like the release of this film is very timely, that it\u2019s kind of bringing to light a lot of issues that our industry and also a lot of other industries face,\u201d Kauer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Blanchett\u2019s performance has garnered early Oscar buzz after she won the best actress award at this year\u2019s Venice Film Festival, where \u201cT\u00c1R\u201d had its world premiere.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 53-year-old has previously won two acting Oscars for her performances in \u201cBlue Jasmine\u201d and \u201cThe Aviator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t read that stuff because I don\u2019t know what to do with it,\u201d she said. \u201cBut that\u2019s lovely. I mean, in the end, I just want an audience to see it and I want them to see it in the cinema.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cT\u00c1R\u201d opens in U.S. theatres on Friday and begins its global rollout in January.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Hanna Rantala; editing by Jonathan Oatis)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/entertainment\/cate-blanchett-on-film\/attachment\/the-79th-venice-film-festival\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI930ZO-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI930ZO-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/entertainment\/cate-blanchett-on-film\/attachment\/the-79th-venice-film-festival-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI930ZP-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI930ZP-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/entertainment\/cate-blanchett-on-film\/attachment\/the-79th-venice-film-festival-3\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI930ZR-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI930ZR-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) \u2013 Acclaimed Australian actor Cate Blanchett says the themes of her new drama \u201cT\u00c1R\u201d galvanised its cast and crew, making the film shoot \u201cthe most<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}