says it was an enormous relief when she finally filmed the finale of her series . “To finally have given voice to that trauma, to be able to tell the story in its entirety,” she says, was so monumental that she actually felt a physical reaction. “I didn’t realize how tense I was for six months until we finally filmed the confrontation scene with Kevin [Kline] where I could finally speak.
” Related Stories Blanchett’s Catherine Ravenscroft is finally given the space to tell her story in that finale scene, and the one that she tells reframes everything the characters in the Alfonso Cuarón miniseries thought they knew. The flip on the show’s narrative also forces the made across the seven-episode series. Up until that scene, Catherine, an acclaimed journalist, had been vilified and essentially canceled after a novel, called arrived out of the blue to out her for a past affair with a 19-year-old named who tragically drowned after saving Catherine’s young son, aged 4 at the time.
According to the book, Catherine (played in flashback by Leila George), saw Jonathan struggling in the water but made no effort to signal for help. When Catherine finally sits down across the kitchen table from Kline’s Stephen — the father of Jonathan whose late wife Nancy (Lesley Manville) penned — Blanchett’s character reveals for the first time in her life the brutal sexual assault that she survived the night before by Jonathan, who was in reality a disturbed, young man and not.
