Australian actress Cate Blanchett defended cinema on Saturday, expressing concern about what it is facing due to the tyranny of streaming platforms and series, which the pandemic has boosted demand.
“The monopolies are disastrous and dangerous,” Blanchett said in Valencia (eastern Spain), where she will receive an award from the Spanish Academy of Cinema during the 36th celebration of the International Goya Awards. “We have to make sure we keep developing good projects,” Kate said.
Although Blanchett, who played a role in “Don’t Look Up” from “Netflix”, which recently achieved great success, pointed to the quality of productions of this kind, she considered it a mistake not to think about the consequences of this new fact. In the market.
The 52-year-old actress and producer, winner of two Oscars and three Golden Globes, has not hesitated to show her commitment to causes such as feminism, the environment and the #MeToo movement.
Before heading to Valencia to attend the most prominent events of Spanish cinema, Blanchett visited Madrid to start working on the upcoming film by Spanish director Pedro Almodovar.
Film magazine Variety reported that Australian actress Cate Blanchett She will not only be the heroine of this film, which will be Almodóvar’s first feature-length work in English, but she will also co-produce it.
The film is adapted from the book of small stories “A Manual for Cleaning Women” by the American Lucia Berlin. “I’ve known Pedro for 20 years and we’ve been talking for a long time about the possibility of working on a project,” Blanchett said.