Cate and Pedro
Thursday, December 1, 2016 at 7:01PM It's been great having Cate Blanchett in our city. From glimpsing her amazing costumes on the Ocean's 8 set, to waxing poetic about Amy Adams at the Gotham Awards, she's giving us lots to cherish while she is in New York City. And there's more to come. Rehearsals start next week on her Broadway debut, The Present, set to start previews on December 17th and open on January 8th. Before that though she had time to toast the master actressexual filmmaker, Pedro Almodovar.
Cate was one of the guests at the opening of the Almodovar retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. The retrospective is running through December 17th, and coincides with the release of Almodóvar’s 20th feature, Julieta (2016), and includes all of his feature films. So New Yorkers don't miss it.
This picture got us thinking that Cate should work with Pedro. Can you see her in an English language remake of one of his films? Which one?
Reader Comments (22)
I've always daydreamed about Almodóvar working in English even for just one film. The actress possibilities!
Didn't he want to work with Meryl? Oh yes but Cate would be equally lovely in his film.
YES. He should also answer Kathleen Turner's plea of starring in one of his films.
Cate Blanchett as Manuela in All About My Mother
Irksome that Almodovar thinks so much of Streep. However he is slightly critical of her since his desire to work with her is to find her not acting at all performance wise.
I can think of two nonwhite actresses who are fluent in Spanish. Phylicia Rashad and Lupita Nyong'o. (Slightly off topic) Wouldn't mind seeing Bullock act in German.
Anjelicia Huston would be a natural fit for Pedro. Raven haired statuesque and mysterious.
A long time ago, Pedro Desire to work with Kate Winslet in the adapatation of 'On Chesil Beach' of Ian McEwan. But the movie never see the light.
To a brazillian magazine, in 2007, he express Desire to work with Julianne Moore.
And Glenn Close make clear that she want be directed by him one day.
Glenn + Moore + Winslet + Blanchett + Almodóvar = heaven
She'd be great as Leo in "Flower of My Secret." All the melodrama mixed with the lingering punk sensibility still present in Almodovar's 90s work. It would be amazing.
Why remake? It'll alws b compared unfavorablely w the original classic. Why not make a new film together? It'll be a heavenly idea!
Cate Blanchett in a Pedro Almodovar film? SHUT THE FUCK UP AND TAKE ALL OF MY FUCKING MONEY!!!!!
Was going to work with Meryl on Julieta with her playing the character at all 3 ages but it never materialized. When a good project comes up- hope they work together!
Cate + Pedro = unbeatable combination!
I love her and I like him very much, but I think together they'd play into each others worst instincts and deliver something along the lines of Elizabeth: the Golden Age.
Picture that random scene of Galadriel possessed by the evil of the OneRing in Fellowship and extend it for two hours. That'd be the whole movie and it would be dreadful.
Cate + Pedro? I'm all in. Let's start a crowd funding?
I diasgree with Carmen Sandiego. I think it would be a wonderful union. One of the most potent FEMALE actresses with a queer director that adores women.... an unhinged Carol !. Knowing Blanchett (she doesn't fuck around with her career), there's probably something brewing now. She can't just have "attended" that retrospective.
Who else loves "Blanchett in New York"? Daily pictures with her kids, Sandra Bullock, Rihanna... random pics with Almodovar, Chazelle... a gushing tribute to an actress she beat to every award 2 years ago...
@ Tony T, Blanchett has THE CV.
Top directors have consistently been her bitches since the late 90s. No one has topped that. When was the last time she had to audition for something? Really curious.
Swinton, Kidman, Winslet, Streep, Moore, none of them have achieved The Blanchett Directorial Commonwealth.
Cate is looking more plastique every time I see her. Vive la chirurgie plastique!
It is interesting that Almodóvar was interested in working with Meryl Streep because I think she is just the opposite to what an "Almodovarian actress" is. Cate Blanchett would be perfect, though. She playing the typical Almodovarian heroine and Julia Roberts as the supporting, visceral and passionate character. After all, Almodóvar said in one interview that he loved how Gael García Bernal looked like Roberts in "Bad Education"...
Anyway, I am happy that Almodóvar keeps filming in his country of origin. Hollywood adventures for this kind of auteurs often end in huge disappointments...
I agree with Yavor that Cate remains unmatched in directorial
eclecticism (is there such a word?) I'm so proud of her that even
though she's not been around longer than some so-called
legendary' actresses, her roster of directors she'd worked with
has easily surpassed that of these actresses. You go girl!
I think they should not remake an old movie. She could be the star of a new film. Maybe she can portray an Australian/American/British tourist in Spain in the middle of the Almodovarian universe.
Yeah, he's mentioned Helen Mirren and Kate Winslet in the past IIRC.
Helen Mirren is a natural fit, she's basically a Brit Marisa Paredes.
And Nicole Kidman's been chasing him, see: The Hours and The Paperboy.
Any actress worth her craft would KILL for a role -- big or small -- in his English debut, where it to ever happen. You'd have to really search for actresses that would work within his aesthetic tho, not just someone like JLaw or Amy Adams or whatever. In fact, I smell a Top Ten, Nathaniel!
I'd love to see what he'd do with Christina Hendricks, HBC, Laurie Metcalf, Tracey Ullman, Christine Baranski, Isabella Rossellini -- just to name a few.
But yeah, Cate + Pedro? Absolutely.
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