this blog is like a box of chocolates. I read a lot. I want tin can roses. I drink too much Lady Grey. I recite film lines to myself when I feel sad. I eat a lot of apple strudel. and this is my masterlist.
& i've left for a while. but why?
basement fighter(s)
My father used to always say, you know, on the Tube, ‘Mind the gap’.
“It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.”
We didn’t have a stick of furniture. We would have picnics in the living room. We ate when we felt like it. Stayed up all night when we wanted. We vowed never to fall into routine, to go to bed or wake up at the same time. We lived on that mattress.
You don’t have to spend much time around them to see that the rapport of these two artists is another of the key elements in the birth of this project. While they shine in different fields, they also share some distinctive qualities: each is a serious thinker, tempered by a great sense of humour – hers is wicked, his dry.
During an earlier conversation, Blanchett had alluded to her and Upton’s yin and yang quality, describing herself as a pessimist and Upton as an optimist. Upton is keen to rephrase this more kindly as “realist and idealist”.
Blanchett, at any rate, credits Upton with the big ideas. “I often shoot off ideas from the hip and a lot of them are stupid,” says Upton. “But Cate has a great gift – as she does as an actor – for finding the arc and building the architecture that will make an idea get to the point it needs to get to in order to be more than just a stupid idea.” Occasionally, these roles are reversed.
— The Power of Two | MiNDFOOD Oct. 11, 2010
