The Aussie screen veteran remains open to surprises, which is just as well, given her role in Rumours.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.They’re a weird mob, the presidents and prime ministers making the big decisions. Cate Blanchett, who plays a fictitious but quite recognisable German chancellor in– very probably the only zombie horror-comedy ever to be set at a G7 summit – is remembering the footage of real G7 meetings watched by the cast as they rehearsed their unlikely roles as world leaders fleeing from undead Neanderthals.
“Mostly it’s about power,” says Denis Menochet, who spends much of the film being pushed around in a wheelbarrow as the French president. Whimpering with self-pity, he bears little resemblance to Emmanuel Macron. “It’s about people with power, like kings and queens, almost.”, for which she received her first Oscar nomination, Blanchett herself retains a queenly authority.
The seven leaders are first seen lined up before a German stately home, posing with their flags. There have been some recent thrilling but grisly discoveries of Neanderthal graves in the castle grounds, where bog men have been buried along with their severed genitals; the leaders duly pose over an excavation holding shiny new shovels. They are supposedly gathering to put out a communiqué. They sit in a candle-lit gazebo for a working dinner, making notes.
Harsh but fair, one might think. “When you go to Westminster or Canberra or wherever it is, there is kind of a strange boarding-school quality to the environments,” says Blanchett. “They are so hermetically sealed, so far away from the real world and yet they are making important, impactful decisions.”, these are decisions that are simultaneously loaded with gravitas but are not expected to affect anything. “There are no consequences,” says Menochet.
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