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 “So I hope I wasn’t mugging too much, but yeah, I didn’t think about that on the day that much,” Cate continues, “Obviously, when you get into hair and makeup, it is a form of masking up off. But even in your Elizabethan war paint, you don’t want that mask to be opaque, it has to be transparent. So hopefully, there was a transparency to it.” Anybody who’s seen the multiple portrayals of England’s greatest queen in the last few years, from films like the first Elizabeth to Shakespeare In Love to HBO’s acclaimed miniseries Elizabeth I, knows by now that Elizabeth I is much too larger-than-life to be contained or dissected in one film. The now 38 year-old actress explained Elizabeth I’s enormous impact on British history and culture. “There’s been a long and glorious legacy of actresses who’s played Elizabeth I, from Flora Robson, Bettie Davis, Glenda Jackson, Helen Mirren and Anne-Marie Duff,” Blanchett notes, “I mean she’s constantly being reinvented. One of my favorite plays is a Sheila play, Mary Stewart, about a fictitious meeting Mary, Queen Of Scots, and Elizabeth I.” “She’s ripe for re-invention because she’s such an enigma and also, when you think about the Elizabethan age when the English culture, as we know it, is crystallized,” she adds, “It’s a fascinating period of history, so I think they’ll be many more Elizabeths long after this film, because I think she’s particularly fantastic, especially for a director like Shekhar, a leaping-off point on which to leap off for a story. I mean, Elizabeth I is iconic as well.” New to Elizabeth second time around is Clive Owen, who plays Sir Walter Raleigh, a courtier who Elizabeth engages in a relationship with. Blanchett explained the unique link the two of them share together in the film “I think what interested me about the relationship between Raleigh and Elizabeth was that there was a vicariousness to it,” she notes, “And I think that happens in a lot of so-called ‘love relationships’, where you almost want to be the person as much as you want to possess the person. And I think that there were a lot of male courtiers that Elizabeth had strong connections with. And I think she was fascinated, not only by the freedom that was afforded, not only by an adventurer like Raleigh, but also the men in the court that couldn’t travel more freely than she could. She never left the shores of England.” Blanchett also had plenty of positive feedback to share in her working with Owen. “I think every woman who works with Clive has incredible romantic chemistry,” she gushes, “He’s very frank and ... |
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