our next guest is an academy award-nominated actress starring in a new film entitled the
missing it opens November 26th here's the lovely Kate Blanchett everyone welcome to the show thank
you now is it uh true and I think more or less it is true that to be on this show and maybe to do
other things you've actually flown from Rome Italy uh to be here and then you have to go right back
to Rome Italy in about three minutes is that right I think well I can't I can't thank you
enough for uh taking the trouble to do that that's got to be quite grueling forever it's a good time
because I'm with child and congratulations well congratulations to you thank you this
is your second patrol number two number two but the great thing is that the character
I'm playing in this film with Wes Anderson that he's directing she's actually pregnant so it's
um and that's how I found out I was pregnant which was very uh I don't get that well I've said
Wes told me he had a bad boy his voices no I had to be fitted with a prosthetic
belly because I wasn't pregnant or I didn't realize I was and I don't know if you've ever
had a plaster cast made of yourself but it's very odd of course I have I've ever made it
myself several of that but you have to get naked in front of strangers who you get to
know very quickly they lubricate you you fell for this yeah well no wonder you're pregnant
and I fainted oh during the process we don't know what they do is they cover
you they lubricate you in this kind of jelly stuff
it's freaking funny and then they plaster cast you all over with this past of Paris and they
do the front and the back but it's like a corset so when they started to do the back I couldn't
breathe and I fainted and then there's all this black plastic to catch all the plaster and I
woke you know after you faint you don't know what's happened and I woke up naked covered in
jello I bought it on black plastic though this ain't good no has that happened here before
not that I remember well what an odd way to find out but congratulations thank you and and is it
can I ask how far along you are in the process about four months oh good for you and you had
no trouble with the the being sick the first three months well no I was disgustingly healthy
the First with the first baby but this time I've been really grumpy and difficult to live with so
um so you're on location now for the remainder of the pregnancy probably right during two two
more weeks oh two more weeks oh that's good that's good and what is it like living and
working in Rome and being pregnant it's great I mean I do like pasta but it's it
what I don't know did I miss that I don't know what that is
but it's it is it's in monoculture so after a while you sort of crave Lebanese food and
you can't really get it what is it like uh what is it like having how old is the one
child now dash he's almost two two or two years old that must be a great time right
it's Sublime because he's you know he's developing language and he's doing it
in Italy which is very sweet I called him last night and Andrew my husband said say
hi to mummy and there's this you know how kids breathe on the phone you can hear them thinking
and she's a really sleazy breath and he went and then he went Ciao Bella
that's very cute I like that
all right stay right there stay pregnant we'll be right back okay Kate Blanchard everybody tell me
uh how you started making films where did you begin was it I mean how does that process take
place if you wanted to be an actress all your life yes no no no no I sort of thought it was an odd
thing to do no I sort of went to University and went traveling and went through Europe and down
to Egypt and was kind of trying to escape acting really I was actually inadvertently in a film in
Egypt but I'd never seen it wow now that that sounds is that a good story or a bad story well
it's odd I was just in this weird place called The Oxford House I don't know if any of you have
been to Cairo it probably has been burnt down and this in the foyer people always printing
passports and money and there was some deposed Turkish prince who had was having a relationship
with Miss Denmark in the corner room but in there's a very odd place and I had no money
and so the girl I was traveling with hooked up with this Scottish guy who was oh God this
is a long story oh but I love stuff like this I can't get enough of this kind of thing and I had
no money and I needed some money to stay for a week longer in Cairo and he was recruiting
English now American looking extras to be in an Egyptian boxing film and they were going to pay
like two to two Egyptian pounds which would have been paid my rent for the week and I said sure
and it was I'm gonna get free Falafel so getting it fed and it was so boring the director actually
had one of those megaphones with director written in Arabic on the side I don't know what they did
they sort of had this boxer and the Egyptian crowd who were cheering the Egyptian boxer were amazing
those extras were phenomenal and then when it got to us we had given these pom-poms and they
were going okay look at that telling us to cheer and we just went it was so embarrassing we just
went yay and they didn't feed us and so I left and so I was like La Blanchette walking off the
stairs and but it's very as you know it actually was completed and was released the film I'm sure
it was a masterpiece oh yeah those Egyptian boxing movies that's a regular Rocky there
now let's show people to tell people a little bit about your film The Missing and then show
the folks a clip uh directed by Ron Howard and I'm working with Tommy Lee Jones it's set in the
southwest pioneering country and it's a story of redemption really it's a father-daughter story I
play a homesteader with two girls one of whom goes missing she's captured by a renegade groups of
um Indians and whites of trying to sell girls across the border into
slavery and I have to recruit Tommy Lee who I'm estranged from and hate actually
um who's my father to help me find the girls all right and you know the scene that we're going to
see here I think so I think that's where he's tried to come back to reconcile himself with
me and I want nothing to do with all right let's take a look oh man it's called the miss
you're on your way back to Italy yeah well travel safely congratulations on the baby
good luck with everything pleasure to see you again Kate Blanchard everyone
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