Click to play videoNew Delhi: After Rituparno Ghosh's Amitabh Bachchan starrer The Last Lear, Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth:The Golden Age premiered at the ongoing Toronto Film Festival on Tuesday.
Spotted at the premiere were films stars Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen and Geoffery Rush. Blanchett, who was nominated for an Oscar in 1998 for her role of Queen Elizabeth, confessed that she didn't expect a follow up to the first film.
“It wasn't at all a film that lent itself to a sequel; it had very much an end point, so I think it took a long time to find where to start again. But, when Shaker conceived of having a love triangle, then the film of the film became really exciting for me. And with Clive in it, and Geoffrey, you know,” she said.
After a show at the recently concluded Venice Film Festival, George Clooney's Michael Clayton followed the festival circuit to Toronto.
The film sees Clooney play a lawyer at a well-established New York city law firm and the story revolves around his moral struggle when asked to clean up one of the firm's own lawyers.
"If you started this movie 10 years earlier he would be a bad guy in the movie. He's looking for redemption probably, just looking to be able to look his kid in the eye. So it wasn't really hard you could just look at it and think okay well: you've done a lot of terrible things in your life and you wanna make up for it somewhere along the way,” he said.
Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhall-starrer Rendition also premiered at the Toronto film festival.
Witherspoon plays Isabella, a pregnant woman who is waiting for her Egyptian-American husband to return from a trip in this film that explores the concept of extraordinary rendition- a policy in which suspected terrorists can be imprisoned and tortured without their native country's legalities interfering.
“Instead of talking about it in a sort of political way that is sort of abstract and not very personal, I think the film kind of shows you what these people's lives must be like: what it is like to be a parent whose child is influenced by religious cults, you know?” said Witherspoon.
Also spotted at the festival was actor Angelina Jolie who was present for the premiere of partner Brad Pitt's film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
“Yeah, I have seen the film and I already like it very much, I think it's wonderful,” she said. Upon being asked about Brad winning the award in Venice, Jolie said, "I'm very proud of him."
The festival which kicked off on September 6 will run through till 15th of this month.
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