(19 May 2024)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cannes, France - 19 May 2024
1. Wide of Cate Blanchett and fellow cast and crew of "Rumours" entering press conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Cate Blanchett, actor:
"I think one feels most mad in the present day when you try and make sense of what is happening, because it is completely bewildering and absurd the situations we as a species have found ourselves in, but have willingly put ourselves in or been put in. And so I think if you try and make too much sense of this movie, you will feel like you're losing your mind."
3. Mid of Cate Blanchett, Evan Johnson and Guy Maddin
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Cate Blanchett, actor:
"I mean, the the statement that the G7 come up with and it's copy and pasted together, the director's statement that these guys made is as absurd as the G7 summit statement. So, yeah. Of course, those textures are there you know, not to be glib, but it's not a it's not trying to be an important film with a message. You know, it's definitely not that. And am I putting words into... oh."
Evan Johnson: "No, not important at all. Not an important film."
Blanchett: "It's OK to fail. I did my bunny ears."
Evan Johnson: "Not important."
Guy Maddin: "What she said."
5. Wide of press conference
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Cate Blanchett, actor:
"So as soon as I knew that Guy had heard of me, of course I wanted to get on the phone, and I'd already made a decision. It's a little bit like a first date. You kind of know whether you're going to creatively sleep together or not. You just do. And, but we had the conversation as a kind of a here (thumbs up). And then I read the script and what I loved about it, was that it felt like it was even a departure for them. And so it's I think it's really exciting when the directors that you are working with, and I've never been directed by a threesome. So that was it was fascinating. Yeah, what was going on off screen."
Galen Johnson: "About that time just mix things up a little bit, a threesome."
Blanchett: "But it felt like, you know, as a directing, triumvirate, they were going in a new, fresh direction so that we'd all have a chance to depart somewhere collectively. You know, I'm getting too metaphorical for my own good. But yes, that's how it happened."
7. Mid of Blanchett, Johnson and Maddin
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Maddin, filmmaker:
"It kind of happened spontaneously. We'd been writing a few other scripts that didn't quite, that were crammed with too many, enough stupid ideas for 20 movies, and we kept throwing them out. But, the G7 idea was in there somehow, and it kept on crumpling itself and crawling out of the wastebasket, and insisting on being made as a film. And we always loved the idea of the G7. I don't know them from up close. We know them from the same way you do, just from the evening news, seeing them from afar, not hearing what anyone says, just watching world leaders and their spouses greet each other regardless of ideology. They're just as friendly with each other. Even though one might eventually declare war against another and commit atrocities, they are all just as genial as at the after party last night. And, it just struck us as such a strange, disconnect with what really is going on in the world that it just seemed like a perfect blank canvas."
9. Wide of end of press conference




STORYLINE:
Cate Blanchett says her new political G7 satire "Rumours" isn't "trying to be an important film with a message.”



"Rumours" is directed by Canadian trio Guy Maddin, and brothers Evan and Galen Johnson.













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