Cate Blanchett has been picking up early Oscar buzz for her performance in Todd Field’s “TÁR” since the film premiered at Venice and screened at the Telluride in the same week.
But the film’s wide release this week will provide the largest platform yet for her performance, which sees her playing a brilliant orchestral conductor who finds her career derailed by scandal.To promote the film’s expansion, the Oscar winner made an appearance on “Hot Ones,” the talk show that features prominent entertainment figures discussing their work while sampling various hot sauces.
She was an enthusiastic participant, joking that for host Sean Evans, eating extremely hot chicken wings will be “the closest you’ll ever get to knowing what menopause feels like.”Once they began, the conversation soon turned to her experiences filming “TÁR.” The conducting scenes featured Blanchett presiding over the actual Dresden Philharmonic, an experience
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