Out of the Archives: Cate Blanchett on Playing Katharine Hepburn
Cate Blanchett spoke with HFPA journalists in 2004 about playing Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator directed by Martin Scorsese, with Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes. “Kate Hepburn was a deeply private woman, so we were trying to unlock the human being while also watching her body of work and paying nods to certain performances.