After Elizabeth , Charlotte Gray , Veronica Guerin , Blue Jasmine …, c is the eighth time you hold a title role …
Really? I did not think about it. I assure you I had nothing to do. Otherwise, I would have asked us to change the title of Cinderella where I incarnated the stepmother, for “Stepmother”, it would have made nine films! Seriously, for Carol is a pure coincidence. Originally, the book which is pulled scenario was entitled The Price of Salt (Salt Award). It was released in 1952, under the signature of Claire Morgan, who is none other than the pseudonym Patricia Highsmith ( Strangers on a Train).
The romance caused a scandal, and it took some time for it to reappear under a new name, Carol. He could also be called “Therese”, the name of the girl falls in love with Carol [starring Rooney Mara]. Indeed, the writer has changed the perspective of history, so that better identifies two women.
The director Sydney Pollack ( Out of Africa ) loved to say that everything was political, even a romantic encounter. In this case, Carol , which is a plea for tolerance and women’s cause, is it a political film?
This is not the ‘agitprop either! It’s very cynical view of politics everywhere. But Sydney liked to provoke debate. Carol is primarily a love story between two isolated, marginalized, but volcanic. Their relationship evolves in a specific social context, that of the 1950s, where a homosexual relationship, let alone when it undertook a mother, caused catastrophic tub.
The movie does not play the political card, but sets out the options available to Carol and Therese, and emphasizes the courage to take on Carol’s feelings. This is after the screening that may arise the debate of ideas. During, everything is based on elegance, lightness, musicality, more present than a political subtext.
The elegance precisely frieze here as everything is obsession graph, even in your every move, your head carriage or when you make love for the first time with Therese – Rooney Mara …
I wanted you to feel every movement of the character. Carol is both accessible and mysterious. It was to be fluid and elusive, to make you want to know. And, for the famous scene you mention with Rooney, there was no discomfort. Todd Haynes is of such delicacy! Like any creator, he is very meticulous, but not valuable.
He has a great sense of beauty, aesthetics, but is also very rock’n’roll and wild. His tact and his freethinking spirit create a unique texture on the plate that defines his work, it shows on the screen. Watch his previous films: Safe, Velvet Goldmine … It’s sassy, raw, beautiful. Carol has this more than Todd is aimed at a wider audience, while maintaining its integrity.
You talk about integrity but there are no feature films in your filmography you accepted just to check?
For this, we would have had me propose this big check – because I assume that the sum should be consistent so we agree to do something that we do not like! You will be disappointed: no. I absolutely have no regrets and I assume all my filmography.
You mentioned Cinderella . Admit that you did not expect there …
And it is precisely for this reason that I accepted! For example, when I was offered the role of Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings my agent told me that I was not obliged, with scorn in his voice. I treated sick and I have dark – and as I take my own decisions, I say relationships “beefy” with him! I kill myself to explain that everything is risky, you can have the best people at the base and ending up with a ratage on arrival.
It is often the unexpected that brings grace. I return to Cinderella : the budget costume, makeup artist and hairstylist scheduled on Carol was so small that all that could be economized. Thus the fittings of Carol took place on the tray Cinderella.
” Everything is based on a ELEGANCE, lightness, musicality. “(Carol Todd Haynes.)
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A big movie so allows you to support smaller projects?
Yes, but that’s not why I accept the bulk film. I am much interested in blockbusters that obscure works of the North China or Kazakhstan! I have no blinders. Woody Allen said a bad movie requires as much as a good effort. We just need to be aware of what you do. There will always be trade-offs and . constraints, but that’s part of the contract must be aware before
I am proud of Carol a small independent film whose script runs for a long time -. it was writes there about fifteen years. – and to which I am attached for six years The financial package has been compromised, the distribution was nearly canceled, production has crossed various obstacles without departing from the original plan. He successful or not, whether rewarded or not, we do not care. This is the movie we wanted to do.
Oscar winner for Blue Jasmine Woody Allen has he changed your life?
No. I just handed to believe a career in film. I started to mourn without great regret, because I worked a lot also, especially with a theater company in Australia. And then I had my children, I dealt more. Oscar This allowed me to remember the good memories of the profession and the public.
You just adopted a little girl, and you already had three children. How do you manage your family life?
My youngest is with me in my promotional trips. However, for a shoot, I try as much as possible to stay close to home. Especially the elder through a difficult period, the cadet exams, the third one does not expect to be at home to party …
Last year, I had a great script, but I said I would do as long as the filming takes place in Australia. The producers valued the budget, have realized that we could shoot in decorations … So, they agreed. But that does not bother me to refuse films. No one is indispensable, and we must leave work to others. My husband has a career was a living, all is well.
One whispers that you met your husband in a poker game. Really?
Yes! I also play, but not very well. I met Andrew at a party, we kissed, and three weeks later, we got married!
Cate Blanchett, with Rooney Mara in Carol Todd Haynes.
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And yet you play?
He, above all. He is doing well. I love poker : it is a life lesson and learn self
Your career took off at the same time as that of Kate Winslet with it Titanic , with.. Elizabeth . always confused the two of you?
Yes! How often do we not congratulated me for Titanic I can not get enough I do not belie and I say thank you There is a week, someone stopped me and started.. “Are you who I think?” I replied: “That is to say?” – “Kate Winslet” The person was so happy … I reaped the compliments and I continued my way and you do not know the best and Kate.? I have the same agent!
Do you read what people say about you on the Internet?
Social networks are a great tool, but is like the toilet: graffiti on the walls are never very helpful. Sometimes it’s funny, we can find a touch of poetry, but it takes 1001 to read unnecessary things or nasty to find significant … I am not registered or on Twitter or on Facebook. I prefer to do things that comment.
Carol , Todd Haynes. Output January 13, 2016.
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