“I don’t know much about anything and the more I know, the less I know.” With these words and quoting Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector and “the advantages of not knowing”, the Australian actress Cate Blanchettreceived the Donostia Prize of the 72nd edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival.
As expected, it was delivered to him by Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón, with whom I just finished filming the series ‘Disclaimer’but he also appeared by surprise, through a video recorded from Venice, the actor and director George ClooneyClooney, who worked with her in films such as “Oceans 8” and “The Good German” and who directed her in “The Monument Men”, He congratulated her on her Donostia and placed him, by his manner of acting, in an artistic league alongside myths like Marlon Brando, Katharine Hepburn, Meryl Streep or Robert de Niro.
“You are part of this legacy and I am fortunate to have led you and acted with you.” said the actor, who tried to take away the solemnity of the moment by joking that he wasn’t wearing pants in the video.
The winner of two Oscars, for Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine” and Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator,” is one of the most recognized and sought-after actresses in the film industry.
Also He has four Golden Globes, four BAFTAs and three Screen Actors Guild Awards and in 2022 received the first Goya International of the Spanish Academy of Cinema.
“I’ve had an eclectic and strange career, but if there’s one thread that binds it together, it’s the desire to know and understand what it means to be human,” he said. Blanchet with his Donostia in his hands. In this sense, called the level of certainty and lack of doubt that seems to exist in today’s world “disconcerting.”
“Living a creative life full of doubts is the DNA of any project“When you start something, you recognize that you know nothing and that you are there to try to discover, that’s why it worries me to see that we sometimes try to find answers very quickly,” he said.
Blanchett has revolutionized the city since arriving early in the afternoon at the Hotel María Cristina, in a blue suit and flat shoes, and with a crowd gathered at the doors asking for a photo or an autograph.
