Cate Blanchett playing Bob Dylan in new movie

“The times they are a-changin’. Cate Blanchett, we read from Cannes, is one of a number of actors scheduled to play Bob Dylan in Todd Haynes’s forthcoming biopic, writes Michael Billington. If one raises one’s eyebrows, it is not at the idea of a woman playing a man. There’s a long cinematic tradition of gender-swapping, dating from Garbo happily donning male attire in Queen Christina and Katharine Hepburn masquerading as a boy in Sylvia Scarlett to Hilary Swank in Boys Don’t Cry. The only surprise stems from the fact that Blanchett, a statuesque Australian, seems to have little in common physically with the scrawny songster from Duluth.” [Guardian]