Creator and Director Alfonso Cuarón, Cate Blanchett, Lesley Manville, and Kevin Kline sit down to unpack central themes and narratives in DISCLAIMER*. In this edition, they reflect on the cataclysmic moment of a mother losing her son that happens in Chapter III.
DISCLAIMER* is now streaming on Apple TV+ https://apple.co/_Disclaimer
DISCLAIMER* is a gripping psychological thriller in seven chapters, starring Academy Award winners Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline. Written and directed by five-time Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuarón, DISCLAIMER* is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Renée Knight. Acclaimed journalist Catherine Ravenscroft (Blanchett) built her reputation revealing the misdeeds and transgressions of others. When she receives a novel from an unknown author, she is horrified to realize she is now the main character in a story that exposes her darkest secrets.
As Catherine races to uncover the writer’s true identity, she is forced to confront her past before it destroys both her own life and her relationships with her husband Robert (Sacha Baron Cohen) and their son Nicholas (Kodi Smit-McPhee). The ensemble cast includes Lesley Manville, Louis Partridge, Leila George, Hoyeon, and features Indira Varma as the narrator.
Hailing from Apple Studios, DISCLAIMER* is co-produced by Esperanto Filmoj and Anonymous Content. Cuarón executive produces for Esperanto Filmoj alongside Gabriela Rodriguez. In addition to starring, Blanchett serves as executive producer. David Levine and the late Steve Golin executive produce for Anonymous Content. Academy Award winner Emmanuel Lubezki, Donald Sabourin and Carlos Morales also executive produce. Renée Knight serves as co-executive producer. Lubezki and Academy Award nominee Bruno Delbonnel serve as directors of photography. The score is composed by multiple Academy and GRAMMY Award winner Finneas O’Connell.
DISCLAIMER* is now streaming on Apple TV+ https://apple.co/_Disclaimer
DISCLAIMER* is a gripping psychological thriller in seven chapters, starring Academy Award winners Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline. Written and directed by five-time Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuarón, DISCLAIMER* is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Renée Knight. Acclaimed journalist Catherine Ravenscroft (Blanchett) built her reputation revealing the misdeeds and transgressions of others. When she receives a novel from an unknown author, she is horrified to realize she is now the main character in a story that exposes her darkest secrets.
As Catherine races to uncover the writer’s true identity, she is forced to confront her past before it destroys both her own life and her relationships with her husband Robert (Sacha Baron Cohen) and their son Nicholas (Kodi Smit-McPhee). The ensemble cast includes Lesley Manville, Louis Partridge, Leila George, Hoyeon, and features Indira Varma as the narrator.
Hailing from Apple Studios, DISCLAIMER* is co-produced by Esperanto Filmoj and Anonymous Content. Cuarón executive produces for Esperanto Filmoj alongside Gabriela Rodriguez. In addition to starring, Blanchett serves as executive producer. David Levine and the late Steve Golin executive produce for Anonymous Content. Academy Award winner Emmanuel Lubezki, Donald Sabourin and Carlos Morales also executive produce. Renée Knight serves as co-executive producer. Lubezki and Academy Award nominee Bruno Delbonnel serve as directors of photography. The score is composed by multiple Academy and GRAMMY Award winner Finneas O’Connell.
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00:00Forever, their life will be defined by this cataclysmic moment.
00:04Destiny doesn't knock on any door.
00:07♪♪
00:09-♪♪
00:12It crashes in without calling.
00:14♪♪
00:18There's two families described in Disclaimer,
00:22two parallel families,
00:23both mother and father with a son at the center,
00:26sons which they both want to protect
00:28and that they kind of worship.
00:30Nancy, the police are here.
00:35Jonathan died in an accident.
00:38We're very sorry.
00:40Nancy has one son, Jonathan.
00:42I happen to be the mother of one son,
00:45so I understand that level of love.
00:48I think Jonathan, for her,
00:50has become the center of her life.
00:53So how do you portray, dramatically,
00:57a moment like that?
00:59I think because Nancy is so complicated,
01:03the only way she can deal with this news
01:05that her son has died
01:07is to shut the rest of the world away.
01:10Look.
01:11-♪♪
01:13Nancy had a very possessive relationship with Jonathan.
01:17She excluded Steven from their lives,
01:20you know, very emasculated by Nancy.
01:23But a role that Steven accepted very easily.
01:27We pack all this?
01:28Yes, don't worry about that, Steven.
01:30I'll take care of everything.
01:31♪♪
01:33Nancy is crushed,
01:35and Steven doesn't react very well to it himself.
01:39He's, however stoical he may try to be,
01:42he's ravaged by this.
01:44Steven just thought,
01:46she's my wife, I should know what to do,
01:48but I don't know how to help,
01:50and she won't let me help.
01:52And from that moment on,
01:53she goes right into that sad spiral
01:56and thinks, yeah, I'm gonna stay in this dark place.
02:02Steven tries to be strong and support her,
02:04but when a child dies before the parent dies,
02:07it's a devastating thing.
02:09It's against all nature.
02:12-♪♪
02:14From the get-go, I was intrigued about this point of view,
02:18the cinematic language of each one.
02:20I thought that they should have a distinctive look
02:23so we could see that same event in two different spaces.
02:27We're at this stunning beach,
02:29which you have seen in earlier episodes,
02:31blue and bright,
02:33but of course, I'm looking at it through the lens of Nancy.
02:37She's not seeing the beauty of the beach.
02:39There's a coldness about it.
02:41It doesn't look the same.
02:42It's suddenly a beach where death has happened.
02:46It happened over there next to the lifeguard chair.
02:49And I'm looking around,
02:50and I'm really in Nancy's state of mind,
02:54and she's not really listening.
02:55She's just looking at the sea.
02:57Nancy.
02:59Nancy.
03:00She needs to be in that water where her son died.
03:03It's a very moving idea, even reading it on the page.
03:08Even talking about it now makes me upset.
03:13Forever, their life will be defined
03:15by this cataclysmic moment.
03:17How do you live after a moment like that?