Famous Hollywood actress Cate Blanchett spoke about the "severe lack of shame" in modern society during a discussion about her new series "Disclaimer*".
Blanchett's character, Katherine Ravenscroft, faces public shaming in this seven-episode psychological thriller. Asked at the Venice Film Festival if the way society "shames" women has changed in the last few years and how she approached this role as a woman, the Australian actress and director said: "I always approach every role as a woman, because I am." . I don't think much about it."
"Currently, there is a marked lack of shame in society. Shame is quite different from guilt. Guilt is a very useless emotion, I don't know what you can do with it. But shame and remorse, and the lessons that can be learned from it, are very powerful," she added. is an actress, Gardijan reports.
Blanchet added that there is still a lot of "shaming" in society.
"Just look at how you're trying to raise children. If you embarrass them publicly, it can lead to anger. Private conversations are often much more powerful than public ones. I'm not saying that public conversations aren't important, but face-to-face conversations, the conciliatory type of conversations, are much more powerful than public shaming," the actress believes.
The psychological thriller, which will premiere on Thursday, is the big-budget series debut of five-time Oscar winner Alfonso Cuaron. Based on the bestselling novel by Renee Knight, the series follows the story of an acclaimed journalist who discovers that she is the protagonist of a novel that threatens to reveal her darkest secret.
As Catherine tries to uncover the identity of the anonymous writer, she is forced to confront her past before it destroys her life and relationships with her husband (Sacha Baron Cohen) and their son (Cody Smith-McPhee). The series also stars Kevin Kline, Leslie Manville and Indira Varma as the narrator.
"We all have a dark side. It seems to me that there's a belief that if people don't tell you everything, they have something sinister to hide. It's called privacy. We think that if people aren't honest, they're doing something dishonorable, but maybe they're just dealing with those things alone. I play a woman who has things she suppressed, traumatic things," the actress pointed out. She also mentioned the book "The Body Records Everything" by Bessel van der Kolk, which talks about the effects of psychological trauma. "The way trauma can stay in the body at the cellular level, and what happens to repressed memories... I found that fascinating and quite painful, and I felt very grateful that I wasn't in that situation," Blanchett added. Cuaron, known for the films "Children of Men" and "Roma", admitted that he does not know how to direct television formats and that at this stage of his life it is probably too late to learn it, and that he approached this project as a film. He admitted that it might have been a misjudgment" on his part. "It takes more time to make a movie, and this was like seven movies. It was a really long process, I really sympathized with the actors," said the director.
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