He has won two Oscars, three Golden Globes, three BAFTAs... The main awards in the world of cinema.
But if Cate Blanchett has to choose one, she keeps the last one, the International Goya that she will receive tonight at the gala of the 36th edition of the Spanish film awards that is being held at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia.
"It's my favourite, of course," the Australian actress said with a smile, showing her mastery on stage by responding with humor and intelligence to questions from the media.
Tall, elegant, comfortably dressed in white trainers and dressed in a light-toned pantsuit and jacket, but not as light as her skin, the 52-year-old Australian actress has recognized that she has a consolidated career, but “she continues to look for new creative paths ”, although there are “random deviations” along the way.
“If you decide to put the applause as the top of the experience and ignore the work, you are wrong.
Putting applause before creation is very dangerous”, stated the Hollywood star without the fuss of a diva.
These creative paths have led him to star in the latest film by Guillermo de Toro (
The Alley of Lost Souls
), to embark on a film with fellow Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón and to work soon on the adaptation of
Manual for cleaning women
, the book of stories by Lucia Berlin, with a script and direction by the Spaniard Pedro Almodóvar, with whom he had been talking about joint projects for years.
“Spanish cinema has been a fundamental influence, not just Almodóvar or Amenábar.
Cinema in Spanish has always seemed to me to be a key element ”for the future, he has assured.
She has also praised film director Todd Haynes for his way of helping her get into characters as disparate as Bob Dylan or
Carol,
inspired by the writer
Patricia Highsmith
.
The only time she has been concise and a bit sharp has been when she has been asked by Woody Allen, who directed her in
Blue Jasmine,
which earned her an Oscar as leading actress (the other was for
The Aviator,
for her role secondary).
She has slightly twisted the gesture and has limited herself to verifying that she had worked with the New York director, in the eye of the controversy since the accusations of sexual abuse made by one of her daughters, although she has never been convicted.
Cate Blanchett and Mariano Barroso, president of the Spanish Film Academy, this Saturday in Valencia.
Monica Torres
He immediately recovered his smile and the most prolix answers, highlighting the curiosity that never ceases to arouse in him the fact that his cinema can reach "an audience and a culture" so different from his own, such as the Spanish one.
She has defended the role of the Film Academy, like the Spanish one, if they are "relevant when they decide to be organizations of change", such as the inclusion of social movements such as Black Lives Matter or Me Too.
Blanchett has entered the so-called bullfighting room of the Palau de les Arts, designed by Santiago Calatrava, accompanied by the president of the Spanish Film Academy, Mariano Barroso.
“I still have hope that we will go out on the street and we really want to meet in the dark spaces of movie theaters, sharing experiences, in a concert hall or in a theater.
But I am not so naive.
I am aware of what has happened in this period [of the pandemic].
We must recognize that the platforms have given a series of possibilities and that is positive”, she has stated.
A film must be seen on the screen for which it was conceived and the important thing is that the projects are nourished by “great ideas”, she has argued.
“The size of the screen doesn't matter if the ideas are big.
But having said that, we cannot be slaves to a single model in which history is lost”, added the actress,