Blanchett Does Drag for Bob Dylan-esque Role

Cate Blanchett is decked out in a wig, shades and leather jacket to rival the singer's distinctive look. "It's a riff on who Bob Dylan could possibly be. When I saw the script I thought, 'This is so out there I can't run away from this,'" she said.

August 22, 2007 at 3:10 pm -
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Sean   August 22nd, 2007 - 6:53 pm

I guess I can play Russell Crowe now

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mark   August 22nd, 2007 - 8:02 pm

This is the coolest thing I have seen in a long time. Blanchett is incredible; so Dylan-like. If the rest of the movie is as neat as this clip, then I can’t wait!

GeSchmidtt   August 22nd, 2007 - 8:35 pm

Just watch the Scorsese documentary, and leave this fluff behind.

Tim   August 22nd, 2007 - 9:07 pm

Wow, she actually looks decent as a man whereas she is a nasty female. Maybe she should have the operation.

ajwood   August 22nd, 2007 - 9:11 pm

It wasn’t the youthful Blanchett-Dylan or the side-by-side vehicle ‘messaging’ with Ginsberg that caught my eye.
It was the way the actors and script properly measured and applied the word “man” in a sentence that showed promise for portraying the era and language.
I want to see more.

BobDylan   August 22nd, 2007 - 9:59 pm

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reg   August 22nd, 2007 - 11:18 pm

um is it me or DOES SHE SOUND LIKE A WOMAN???

oh right…it’s one of those movies where we just have to imagine really hard. imagine the movie doesn’t suck cause she sounds LIKE A WOMAN.

ScottMcC   August 23rd, 2007 - 1:32 am

Imagine you’re in the pitch meeting for that movie:

THE 63 YR-OLD WHITE GUY MOVIE EXEC: So, it’s about Bob Dylan?
THE 42 YR-OLD WHITE GUY DIRECTOR: The “Spirit” of Dylan in our culture and society. It’s different stages of Dylan’s psyche at different stages in America’s growth during the 60s.
THE 26 YR-OLD WHITE GUY WRITER: It exposes the drama of the times as told through Dylans music.
MOVIE EXEC: You’ll need the most passionate overactors available…
DIRECTOR: I want Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan and
the weird little man from Mr. Show and Arrested Development as Alan Ginsberg.
WRITER: Ginsberg was awesome. He would hate George Bush. I hate George Bush.
DIRECTOR: Me too.
EXEC: I like where this is going, but you know what this movie needs? A funny talking dog as Dylan’s sidekick and narrator. CGI rather than a puppet… and a *black* dog for the sake of diversity.
DIRECTOR: Eddie Mur– no, Jamie Foxx. Of course, I love the passion of Latinos… Maybe we could get a chihuahua and cast George Lopez?
WRITER: What are you doing to my words?! This is a lifestory chronicling the greatest musical genius if he lived as 6 different scene-chewing actors! I refuse to change the script to have a talking ethnic dog!
EXEC: What if it’s a gay dog?
THE DIRECTOR SQUEALS WITH DELIGHT AS THE WRITER’S EYES GO WIDE WITH SURPRISE.
WRITER: That’s… **perfect!**

mark   August 23rd, 2007 - 5:06 am

she looks a little like him but sounds like a woman. that really sucks. I agree with GeSchmidtt and leave this crap behind. What a waste.

John S.   August 23rd, 2007 - 7:52 am

This is ridiculous….she still sounds like a woman.

:yawn:

rhonda   August 23rd, 2007 - 9:00 am

Awful, just another way of “educating” the American people into their position on homosexuality. Make it normal!

Dave   August 23rd, 2007 - 9:49 am

She’s not supposed to sound like a man. You’re not supposed to overlook the fact that it’s Cate Blanchett playing a male role. The movie plays fast and loose with Dylan with symbolic portrayals of his identity and storytelling, which is why you have various people portraying him, including a woman and a young black actor.

Allen Ginsburg there is David Cross, who is fantastic.

scott   September 7th, 2007 - 4:22 pm

She plays him perfectly…like the woman he is!

Ed   September 7th, 2007 - 6:15 pm

Pathetic!

YAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWNNNNNNN zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Annie   September 7th, 2007 - 10:21 pm

I’m surprised to read the negative comments. I expected her performance to be overrated but after watching that, I think the Best Actress Oscar is hers for the taking. Not only was she believable as a man (and how did she do that voice???) but she sounded like a young Dylan. And Cross as Ginsberg is genius casting.

Dr. Rockcoat   September 8th, 2007 - 9:05 am

If Cate Blanchett can imitate Dylan then I can imitate Homer Simpson, “This sucks!”

(Seriously,this looks really awful)

Jake   September 8th, 2007 - 3:39 pm

Uh this looks lame.. what ever they were trying for, they’ve missed the mark. I like Cross and Blanchett but no, she does not look or sound like Bob Dylan. She looks and sounds like herself.

Bruce   September 8th, 2007 - 10:42 pm

[quote]Annie
I’m surprised to read the negative comments. I expected her performance to be overrated but after watching that, I think the Best Actress Oscar is hers for the taking. Not only was she believable as a man (and how did she do that voice???) but she sounded like a young Dylan.[/quote]

hahahahah! You’re kidding, right? She sounds NOTHING like Dylan! And that wig looks like a $3 halloween costume wig.

Please.

/nothing to see here, folks. Move along now/

Jim Z   September 9th, 2007 - 7:09 am

this is embarrassing to actors everywhere. A rip off is I ever saw one. please……, Dylan was so cool at that stage of his career. He would never had spoken like a woman. Get real and get a real male actor to play the great Bob Dylan. Adam Sandler would be perfect as Dylan at any stage and I am not a Sandler fan. Cate’s stills look like Dylan but when the action starts it is all over. Very bad indeed.

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