I just got back to the West Coast after flying to the East Coast to see Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman on Broadway. Had I known about Blanchett, I would have planned my itinerary accordingly.
Peter Marks of the Washington Post gave her similarly high marks, and I have to say, after having seen the play in DC, I don't feel quite the same way.
I'm a big fan of hers overall -- she's beautiful, of course, and extremely charming and polite in person, and she comes across as elegant and classy in pretty much everything she does.
In Streetcar, though -- at least the performance I saw -- I found her performance to be sort of unsubtle and overwrought. She frequently shook and trembled, for example, and I could just see her deliberately making her hands shake. And her histrionics -- though of course some histrionics are key to Blanche's character -- were too over the top for my taste. I just didn't find her very convincing, and I preferred the slightly subtler performances of the play's other actors.
This, of course, is why I'll never be a theater critic.
Love her and love the play but that review is absurdly overwrought. "Cate Blanchett soars spectacularly on the gossamer wings of fantasies that allow her character to live with herself." What?
I love this woman so much. Cate and Naomi Watts are my two favorite actresses and I would gone to see Bride Wars if they were in it. Meryl Streep part deux.
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Can't they do the movie version with her?
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I'm a big fan of hers overall -- she's beautiful, of course, and extremely charming and polite in person, and she comes across as elegant and classy in pretty much everything she does.
In Streetcar, though -- at least the performance I saw -- I found her performance to be sort of unsubtle and overwrought. She frequently shook and trembled, for example, and I could just see her deliberately making her hands shake. And her histrionics -- though of course some histrionics are key to Blanche's character -- were too over the top for my taste. I just didn't find her very convincing, and I preferred the slightly subtler performances of the play's other actors.
This, of course, is why I'll never be a theater critic.
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