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Every year,\xa0Film\xa0at Lincoln Center honors a luminary of the\xa0film\xa0industry with the\xa0Chaplin Award. This year\u2019s recipient, the 47th, is an actress who has essayed some of the most iconic performances of the last quarter-century, and whose nearly superhuman versatility is matched by the consistency of her craft: Cate Blanchett. In an in-depth tribute essay, the scholar Amy Herzog writes that \u201cBlanchett\u2019s almost otherworldly range has generated certain tropes in reviews of her work: she is often described as \u2018chameleonic,\u2019 or said to \u2018disappear into the character. But these takes, which suggest an innate and natural ability for imitation, or even an erasure of the self, don\u2019t capture the careful calibrations of Blanchett\u2019s craft.\u201d\n\nA couple of weeks ago, I sat down with Blanchett to dig into those calibrations and the process behind some of the most interesting performances of her career. We discussed her iconic turns in Jim Jarmusch\u2019s Coffee and Cigarettes, Todd Haynes\u2019s I\u2019m Not There, Taika Waititi\u2019s Thor: Ragnarok, and some deeper cuts, like her early roles in the Australian miniseries Bordertown and Tom Tykwer\u2019s Heaven (which was written by Krystof Kieslowski).