Cate Blanchett speak German | The Good German

Cate Blanchett speaks German in The Good German film. Cate had to learn to speak German in such a short time, because 11 hour before shooting the good german’s director (Steven) told her that he wanted Cate to speak German. Cate’s interview in blackfilm dot com: interviewer: Your accent in this film doesn’t sound like a Hollywood German accent. It sounds like a German German accent. Can you talk about the dialect training you might have undergone? Cate Blanchett: You mean someone like James Mason doing. interviewer: Honest to God, it sounds like a German person. Cate Blanchett: : I think the model was more the European actresses who were embraced by Hollywood during that period. As an actress, I watched a lot of Hilda Garnett, whose work I didn’t know before; and Maria Louis Reyna and Ingrid Berman. Fortunately when it’s released in Germany, it would be dubbed. What the difference I suppose is that if it was a film of the 40s then I wouldn’t be speaking German and that Steven decided at the 11 th hour,