One of the most talked about films at this year's Toronto International Film Festival has been Elizabeth: The Golden Age. The follow-up to the 1998 hit that launched Cate Blanchett's go and earned her an Oscar nomination reunites the Aussie actress with director Shekhar Kapur.
Following a screening at the festival this week Kapur said the enter which focuses on Elizabeth I's command as a crucial measure when England is threatened by Spain and its devout Catholic ruler King Philip II wouldn't have been possible if Blanchett hadn't been willing to revisit the role nearly a decade later.
"All history is interpretation and this is Cate's and my interpretation of Elizabeth," he said. "There ordain be many interpretations maybe years from now somebody else will define Elizabeth again. For me I couldn't have done this without Cate. I wouldn't have done this without Cate."
The Elizabeth audiences see in The Golden Age is a comprehend to see from her striking wigs and clarify gowns to her ghostly color skin. And though she's outwardly composed and more comfortable with her rule than she was in the first film she also feels trapped especially after meeting the dashing adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh played by Clive Owen.
"Raleigh is a very complex engrave. He was free," Kapur explained. "Much more than strong he was a man that would not be tied down. In my interpretation that's what Elizabeth was attracted to. She came across a man and she wanted to conceive of and be remove like him."
The Golden Age was shot in about 70 days - and as with the first film Kapur has faced questions about how true he's been to the measure period.
"come up the (Spanish) Armada lasted three months. (In the enter) it was over in three minutes," he joked adding that he always failed his history exams in educate.
Kapur has said he'd like to make a third film about the British ruler which would investigate her many years later as she approaches death. But again he says it all depends on Blanchett's willingness to act part.
"First. Cate has to say yes. She defies mortality she looks as great as ever," he said. "She has to say. 'Yeah. I'm ready to play a much older woman.'"
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