After starring in multi-Oscar winner Gravity, Cate Blanchett collaborated with Alfonso Cuaron again in the latest Apple TV+ show Disclaimer. In a recent interview, the actor recently shared that she was “really gripped” working with the director who has a stunning reputation for being one of the most acclaimed directors working today.
Cate Blanchett Shared Her Experience Of Working With Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuarón and Cate Blanchett. Image Credit: Apple TV+
Cate Blanchett has long admired the work of director Alfonso Cuarón. Over the years, she had watched from afar as he moved through various genres, appreciating his astounding legacy as a filmmaker. Blanchett recently shared that being someone with eclectic tastes herself—both as a performer and an audience member—she was curious about what had drawn Cuarón to this particular project.
“I’d admired Alfonso’s movies from afar you know for such a a long time and also how you’d moved through so many different genres and so I have quite eclectic tastes both as an audience member and as as an actor as a performer. And so, I was really curious as to why this particular story like why? What could hold you your creative brain for not just as a film but for so many chapters or episodes, and then I was really well I don’t know why I should be surprised because you’re always surprising as a director,” Blanchett said of the director during her chat with ScreenSlam.
She added, “What you choose to do you know from a moment to Gravity it’s like Roma they’re all such different you’re approaching audiences and the and the subject matter so differently but once we began to unpick with you the way you wanted to approach it that I was really gripped by by that.”
Blanchett saw exciting possibilities, both for her as an actor and for the audience. What had initially seemed unfamiliar to her started to reveal its potential after her introspect into the project.
Cate Blanchett Explains Her Disclaimer Character
Cate Blanchett. Image Credit: Apple TV+
In the Apple TV+ series, Disclaimer, Cate Blanchett plays a respected documentary journalist. Her career is built on exposing abuses of power and hypocrisy in both systems and individuals, making her a revered figure in her field. She is portrayed as being in a strong marriage, though she has a strained relationship with her son. At the start of the first episode, her seemingly stable life is disrupted when she receives a mysterious book titled Perfect Stranger.
“She’s so revered and respected in a great marriage, a problematic relationship with her son. And right at the beginning of that first chapter, the first episode, a book arrives and it has a disclaimer at the beginning. It’s a pulpy novel called ‘Perfect Stranger.’ And she opens it up, then why has this been sent to me? And the disclaimer says, any resemblance to persons living or dead is intentional. You know how it normally goes the other way? – Yes. – She goes, ‘Hang on a minute.’ And she starts to read it,” the 55-year-old explained during her chat with The Kelly Clarkson Show.
As she begins to read, she realizes that the story is closely connected to a traumatic event from her own past—something she has buried deep and never spoken about. “It’s like a grenade has been thrown at her,” the actor continued. This discovery shakes her, and soon, the book is sent to her husband, her son, and a colleague. “And then it gets sent to her husband and to her son, and to her workmate and her life just falls apart,” she added. By the end of the first episode, her life begins to unravel as the secrets from her past threaten to destroy everything she has built in her life.
Created by Alfonso Cuarón, Disclaimer also stars Kevin Kline, Sacha Baron Cohen, Lesley Manville, Louis Partridge, Leila George, Indira Varma, and Kodi Smit-McPhee.
Disclaimer is now streaming on Apple TV+.
