Cate Blanchett: Why I Admire Brad Pitt

Cate Blanchett was interviewed by Reuters, about her role in ’The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’. Check out the highlights below [Website –Amy Grindhouse].

This is your second film with Brad Pitt after co-starring with him in ‘Babel’. Is there anything noteworthy about working with him that the moviegoer might be interested in knowing: He is unbelievably committed to what he does. In both films, there’s been a sense that he’s asked really difficult questions of the film before he’s committed, and he sort of tends to be, I suppose from the outside, a little bit reticent to jump in. But that’s only because he wants to know if he’s going to commit 100 percent, he wants to know that the film’s going to be as committed as he is. And so I really admire him for that. He’s really tireless.

You’re not a dancer by trade, but is it true that you had some childhood dance instruction: Yeah, I studied ballet, but also in drama school the most powerful training for me was the movement training. And look, if I had my way over again, I’d be a Butoh dancer (contemporary dance form originating in Japan), or I’d desperately try and finagle my way into working with (modern dance choreographer) ‘Pina’ Bausch. So, (in Benjamin Button) I worked with Michelle Johnston, who was the choreographer.

‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’, starring Cate Blanchett and Brad Pitt, is out in theaters now. 

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