cate blanchett, welcome to the arts interview. thank you. so i wanted to begin byjust getting you to explain the whole idea of new boy. well, it's a film by warwick thornton, who's one of australia's great directors. he's a cinematographer, he's a writer, and this is a film that's intensely personal that he's sort of wrote 20 years ago from personal experience, and then it's been extrapolated out from there. but in a nutshell, it's set on a remote monastery in the 1940s, so the backdrop is the second world war. and the monastery is being presided over by a nun, who i play, who's officiating mass, the priest is dead. and one night, unceremoniously, a young indigenous boy is dumped on the doorstep of the monastery to be cared for as part of the reprehensible government policy of assimilation of indigenous children, in order to separate indigenous children from their culture. and this powerful spirituality of this young boy destabilises the surety of the catholic faith there, and these strange miracles start to happen. which we see so vividly i