She might be the greatest dramatic actress of her generation, but Cate Blanchett hasn’t scared away every comedic director. After all, “Rumours” helmers Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson sent her the script for their audacious satire. “I think in a strange way, everything is funny,” Blanchett said during an interview at the Variety Toronto Film Festival Studio.
“We are all absurd in some way, and we all think we’re the heroes and the tragedians of our own stories. Yeah. Sometimes you make decisions about what you can be involved in based on a lot of things that don’t have to necessarily do with choice.
Sometimes it’s to do with whether it fits in with your kids’ holidays.” “That’s how we got you?” Evan Johnson asked. “Yes, I wanted to be in the forest at night for eight weeks in Budapest, and my kids were really happy about that!” she added.
All kidding aside, Blanchett was familiar with the Canadian trio’s respective work known for poking fun at otherwise weighty subjects. For the two-time Oscar winner (for Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator” and Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine”), “Rumours” offered a chance to play an Anglea Merkel-esque world leader alongside Roy Dupuis as a Justin Trudeau stand-in in a seeming homage to “Dr. Strangelove.
” “This was a laugh out loud script, but it was also confounding and bewildering and deeply distressing,” she said of the black comedy. “I knew Roy’s work and the ensemble was s.