| The star of “Tár” reunites with her opening-scene partner for a conversation about listening to music, going before audiences, and the art of acting in life and in the movies.  Photograph by Pari Dukovic for The New Yorker Todd Field’s movie “Tár” begins with a scene at a fictional New Yorker Festival. Cate Blanchett plays Lydia Tár, the lauded conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, and her interviewer, the staff writer Adam Gopnik, plays a version of himself. In a conversation published today, as part of our second annual digital-only Interviews Issue, the two have reconvened—this time at Gopnik’s apartment in New York, where both of them are finally playing themselves. Blanchett reflects on the making of the film, the daunting task of inhabiting the role of a female conductor, and more. - On the director Todd Field: “He’s like Martin Scorsese. He sits not behind the monitor but by the camera. And you can feel the energy.”
- On the meaning of the name “Tár”: “When I saw the anagrams, I was thinking, I can’t play ‘rat’ . . . I said to my husband, ‘I can’t play that level of judgment. We’ve got to change the name.’ And he—my husband—just very simply said, ‘It’s also an anagram of “Art.” ’ ”
- On the atmosphere of the set: “I don’t think anybody knew on a visceral level that we were making something. Todd and I kept calling it, like, a monster that was locked in the closet. We kept calling it the thing.”
The 2023 Interviews Issue: This week, we’ll be publishing interviews with Will Shortz, Sandra Oh, and many others. Read more » | 
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