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 Geoffrey Rush
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime For many actors, their desire to act stretches beyond doing merely film. For Geoffrey Rush, his beginnings are in the world of classical theater, acting with the Queensland Theater Company in Australia. Starting out acting in films sparingly, the movie world soon realized the depths of Rush’s talents on screen. That came when he played piano prodigy David Helfgott in the film Shine, which won him a Best Actor Oscar in 1996, the first Australian actor to do so. Geoffrey’s success led him to do roles in a diverse array of films from Shakespeare In Love and Les Miserables to House On Haunted Hill and the Pirates Of Carribean series. He now returns once again as Elizabeth’s advisor Francis Walsingham in the new sequel Elizabeth: The Golden Age, which he stars with alongside Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett and Clive Owen. When word first was brought up regarding an Elizabeth, Rush tells of the lengthy process during the preliminary stages that came about in deciding whether or not to do the sequel. “There’s a number of elements and there’s a certain mythology to that story now,” Geoffrey recalls, “[Director] Shekhar [Kapur], Cate, and I had a fleeting opportunity three or four years ago where we all happened to be in Los Angeles for the one evening and through all the various coordinators and publicists and minders, we said let’s set aside a couple of hours and really talk an idea through.” He notes of how co-star Blanchett was the most unsure of whether or not to play the role of the legendary Queen Elizabeth I again, a role which got her a Best Actress Oscar nomination in 1998 and put her on the map. “I think from Cate’s point of view, she felt, this is a role I’ve already played,” Rush claims, “And as you can see from her repertoire since she first blazed onto the scene ten years ago, she’s an exploratory, risk-taking, and very kind of unpredictable chooser of repertoire. And maybe she felt that going over reinventing the same character was not going to be a great challenge.” But Rush says that it was his own personal encouragement that ultimately convinced Blanchett to go back to the role. “Because I worked with Cate in the theater back in the early 1990’s and knew her very much as a colleague and a friend, I just leant on her and said, you know, even in the theatrical repertoire, as you get older, the roles become less,” he says, “If you’re into Shakespeare, you got Queen Margaret to look forward to or maybe a Cleopatra and etc. I said, even in terms of film, it’s probably going to be even less opportune. And a great multi-dimensional character like this needs an actress of your caliber.” He also adds that his motivation was ultimately his personal admiration of her skill as an actress, which has netted her two Best Actress Oscar nominations and a Best Supporting Actress ... |
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