Talking TÀR, Cate Blanchett is befuddled by the 'obsession' with labeling sexuality that permeates film discourse
about this particular subject. “I just don’t understand the language they’re speaking, and I need to understand it because you can’t dismiss the obsession with those labels—behind the obsession is something really important. But personally I’ve never had it.”
In fact, “I don’t think about my gender or my sexuality,” she claims. “For me in school, it was David Bowie, it was Annie Lennox. There’s always been that sort of gender fluidity.”In context, Blanchett seems to be saying she didn’t consider any negative optics that might surround ’s toxic protagonist also being a lesbian in a male-dominated profession. Instead, she approached the character asthat exists in a fictional, albeit familiar, world—“a fantasy,” as she herself describes Lydia Tàr toShe’s nonetheless aware of the queerbaiting discourse, and certainly wary of being the subject of discourse herself. “If you and I were having a conversation [25 years ago], it would be in your publication and that was it,” Blanchett says.
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