We talked about trying to create an image that would somehow, to an audience, create the sense of awe, wonder and shock that the troops must have felt that their monarch - and a female monarch - went to the frontline of battle and was prepared to lay down her life. This speech is so well known and has been done in virtually every version of the events of Elizabeth's life.
Cate BlanchettThe more you do it, the more you learn to concentrate, as a child does, incredibly intensively and then you sort of have to relax. I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would in between scenes be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I'd think, 'How can you do that?'
Cate BlanchettPeople love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.
Cate BlanchettCulture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].
Cate Blanchett