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 A fair deal of liberty was taken with a few of the historical facts of Elizabeth in order to give it more resonance as a film, as with many period dramas based on real events. The actress explained to us the important difference between telling a story as documented fact and as a dramatic film. “In the end, I don’t quite know how many minutes or seconds the film is, but when you have a couple of hours to tell an incredibly dense period of history,” she notes, “By the process of selection, you’re automatically telescoping the events. And you’re automatically saying this event has more significance than the one that’s being omitted.” “It’s never going to be like reading the letters and the court documents and reading a very Alison Wiers biography of Elizabeth,” Blanchett adds, “It’s not the same experience, but then, going to see a film shouldn’t be, you are being told a fable and a fable through the eyes of that director. And it’s very temporal, too, filming, so hopefully, the film has a contemporary quality. I think, like all good stories, if they’re able to connect to the current collective conscious of what we’re all thinking about and what it means to be female now as much as what it means to must be female then.” A common fact about Queen Bess, as she was commonly called, was how she ultimately never wed and was never able to produce an heir to the throne. Blanchett shares how she believes the nature of relationships and the roles of women have evolved since the reign of Elizabeth. “The notion of happiness, I think, for somebody in Elizabeth’s position is sort of a strange one,” she notes, “I think it’s a very modern concept that happiness is something that we have to strive for, but we can achieve in this lifetime. I think Elizabeth’s situation was entirely different. And in relation to finding a companion, the reasons were then deeply unromantic.” “It was to do with securing a nation and it was a political tool,” she continues, “Women were used as part of the political negotiation process between countries. And the fact that Elizabeth claimed that political mechanism and was able to use it for herself meant the prospect of finding love for her was very elusive. I think the history books say, as the books were written by courtiers at the time, that the closest she came was the Duke of Ingue. But in Shekhar’s first film, the Duke of Ingue was a raving transvestite. I mean, everything’s up for grabs in these films.” Aside from her previous mentioning of a role as a young Bob Dylan in the film I’m Not There, Blanchett also discussed with us her upcoming involvement in the Sydney Theater Company in Australia next year. “We officially take over the Sydney Theater Company as ... |
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