Cate Blanchett & Michelle Yeoh Reveal Their 'Tár' & 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' Roles Were Originally Intended for Men

Cate Blanchett and Michelle Yeoh have something in common.

The two stars are featured in the Actors on Actors issue of Variety, where they discussed their careers together in a conversation.

During their conversation, they opened up about their two acclaimed movies of the moment: Cate‘s Tár, and Michelle‘s Everything Everywhere All at Once, and they found out they have something in common about their experience.

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“They initially wrote it for a man,” Michelle said of her role as Evelyn in the film.

“I think it’s the norm, because it would be easier to finance. It would be easier to understand that a guy would multiverse jump. But then they changed it into a mother role, which actually suits the Daniels so much more, because they’re surrounded by very strong, smart women.”

Cate then weighed in about her movie.

“It’s funny that you say Evelyn in Everything Everywhere All at Once was originally written for a man. When Todd [Field] was thinking about it, Tár was originally a male role,” she said.

“Because the film is a meditation on power, you would’ve had a much less nuanced examination of that. We understand what the corruption of male power looks like, but we need to unpack what power is itself.”

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