Aviator It focuses on the turbulent twenty-year life of American industrialist Howard Hughes, passionate about aviation, cinema, and female conquest. The film sets out to tell a passionate young man without hiding the neuroses that will gradually tear him apart from the rest of the world. Camped by Leonardo DiCaprio, both childlike and ingenious, Hughes replicates his brilliant skills: sets airspeed records, pays TWA airline, builds Spruce Goose (a huge military transport seaplane), shoots multiple movies… an incredible array of adventures with movie stars . However, instead of detailing his turbulent love life, the movie focuses on the three women he cares most about in his life.
Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn
For the Australian actress, it wasn’t about “being”.a pale copy”. “I had watched many of his movies from Indiscretions to African Queen. But my job was to find the young Katharine before Spencer Tracy.” Strong and independent, the wonderful sportswoman (played tennis and swam like a champion) will have a three-year romance with the billionaire. “I was madly in love with Howard Hughes”, the player will tell in his memoirs. Cate Blanchett plays a surprisingly natural and brash Hepburn. His performance earned him the Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
Kate Beckinsale is Ava Gardner
Between playing a vampire warrior in the fantasy saga underground, and embodying the supreme Ava Gardner, there’s a huge bridge that the British actress hesitates to cross. Determined to partner her up, Leonardo DiCaprio personally traveled to London to persuade her to accept the role. And we wouldn’t say no to Leonardo. “The biggest challenge was not playing Ava Gardner, but shooting under Scorsese. I was scared to death. I’ve watched most of Ava’s movies to absorb her accent, her sensual gestures. She was extraordinarily beautiful and I needed ten makeup artists to look like her.”
Gwen Stefani as Jean Harlow
He only has one scene to play but what a scene! Jean Harlow on her lover’s arm caused a sensation on the red carpet of a preview in platinum blonde and lamé sheath. “Something I’ve done a thousand times”, the singer laughs, very convincing in the role. Howard Hughes noticed the young woman when she was an extra in Laurel and Hardy’s films. Mad at her exaggerated blonde and lavish curves, she made her film debut in 1930, angels of hellIt’s a blockbuster movie that would cost insane $4.5 million at the time.
Aviator, 3 July Monday at 20:55 Arte
Isabelle Magnier
Source: Programme Television
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