Finding yourself in Greenland
CATE Blanchett, Kristen Wiig, Laurence Fishburne, Billy
Crudup’s “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” is a film about a lady’s complicated chic world who, after years sacrificing for her family, runs far off to find herself.
Crudup: “We shot in Greenland, which resembles the last bit of the end of the world. Like Antarctica. Like Earth’s biggest meltdown. Primordial. Icebergs, rocks, mountains, scarce tundra. No parks or recognizable features. Being there, you learn what our planet could descend into.
“We stayed on a single decommissioned Russian ship, a sevenstory, 350-foot vessel. Off-hours we observed whales, colonies of fish, wildlife, geography, and existed through an 80 mph hurricane with the Atlantic’s 30-foot rolling seas.
“Except for the oil industry, nothing goes on there. Iceland’s the beautiful part of that world. Greenland’s not so beautiful. If we’d worked there in winter, we’d have frozen to death. We filmed summertime, and it was 60 degrees.
“I play the artificial intelligence tech millionaire husband of Bernadette — that’s Cate. He’s preoccupied. After she runs off he begins to pay her attention.”
A New Yorker, as is his whole family, knife-pressed blue suit, perfect blue tie, spit-polished shoes, what did spiffy Crudup buy in Greenland?
“You kidding? Nothing. They have no stores. There is absolutely nothing to buy and nothing to do.”
So now that you’re no longer shooting “Where’d You Go, Bernadette,” would you ever go back to Greenland? “Oh, definitely.” Cate arrived in Alexander McQueen’s black, supertailored, multicostly pantsuit with giantsize blue satin ruffled sleeves. She did not get this in Greenland.