(Valencia) Australian actress Cate Blanchett on Saturday defended the cinema, faced with the domination of streaming platforms and series boosted by the pandemic, worrying about the emergence of a unique creative model.
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“Monopolies are disastrous and dangerous,” she said on Saturday in Valencia (eastern Spain), where she was to receive the international Goya prize awarded by the Spanish Academy of Cinema in the evening.
“We must make sure to continue to develop good projects” without “become slaves to the format of the series”, she pleaded.
Cate Blanchett-who starred in the platform’s recent hit streaming netflix Don’t Look Up — referred to the quality of such productions but considers that it would be “negligent” not to reflect on the consequences of this new market situation.
The 52-year-old actress and producer, who has won two Oscars and three Golden Globes, has never hesitated to get involved in causes such as feminism, ecology and the #metoo movement.
Before heading to Valencia for the grand gala of Spanish cinema, Blanchett passed through Madrid to begin work on Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar’s next film.
According to film magazine varietythe Australian will not only star in what is Almodovar’s first English-language feature, but will also co-produce it.
It will be an adaptation of the short story book by the American Lucía Berlin, “Handbook for housekeepers”.
“I’ve known Pedro for 20 years and we’ve been talking about the possibility of working on a project for a long time,” said Cate Blanchett.