Cate Blanchett Talks About Me, My Elf and I

Blanchett, Academy Award nominated for her performance in Elizabeth is in the final stages of filming another Queen, the role of elf Galadriel in Lord of the Rings. Blanchett explains why an attraction to Jackson’s filmic edge vision caused her to lobby hard for the role: “I heard on the grapevine that Peter [Jackson] and Fran Walsh, his writing partner, were going to do it. I’d long been a fan of their films.”