“Monopolies are disastrous and dangerous”she said in Valencia (eastern Spain), where Cate Blanchett was to receive the international Goya prize awarded by the Spanish Academy of Cinema in the evening.
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Australian actress Cate Blanchett defended the cinema on Saturday February 12, faced with the domination of streaming platforms and series boosted by the pandemic, worrying about the emergence of a unique creative model.
“Monopolies are disastrous and dangerous”she said in Valencia (eastern Spain), where she was to receive the international Goya prize awarded by the Spanish Academy of Cinema in the evening. “We have to make sure that we continue to develop good projects” without “become slaves to the format of the series”she pleaded.
Cate Blanchett – who starred in the recent Netflix streaming platform hit Don’t Look Up – mentioned the quality of such productions but felt 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 Variety, the 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 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 again.