Alfonso Cuarón is teasing just how impactful his upcoming Apple TV+ limited series is to his career.
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The five-time Academy Award winner told Vanity Fair that series “Disclaimer” is the most “overtly narrative” project he’s worked on to date. “Disclaimer,” which will premiere October 11, stars Cate Blanchett as an acclaimed journalist whose own secrets are brought to light when a novel mirroring a past indiscretion is published. Cuarón writes, directs, and executive produces the series which is based on Renée Knight’s bestselling novel. The show was announced in 2021 and is Cuarón’s first TV series since his short-lived 2014 NBC show “Believe.”
“In television, you go A, B, C, D. In film, you find a way to go from A to D directly,” Cuarón told VF. “Here it was about experimenting with something different. I have never done something so overtly narrative.”
The auteur continued, “The miscalculation is that I don’t know how to do TV. And I don’t think that at this stage, I want to really learn.”
Instead, according to the piece, Cuarón equated “Disclaimer” to being a seven-hour-long film .
“[Apple was] very generous when I said I could only do it as a film,” Cuarón said. “In a TV show, you shoot five pages a day, and sometimes even more. I shoot one page a day. So the shoot was very, very long. We were shooting with pandemic restrictions and with actors getting COVID, meaning changes of schedule and domino effects happening.”
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Cuarón also added in conflicting voiceovers and played with the use of first, second, and third person narration.
“By working with those voices, you dig further inside the characters,” the “Y tu mamá también” filmmaker said. “You can dig further inside fears, inside anxieties, inside their past, their guilt, their misgivings. I’ve always been intrigued, because there are not many films that use the second person in narration. In Spanish and in French, the second tense is called accusativo . Accusative. It is accusing. That was part of the reason for creating that voice in the second person.”
The star-studded cast for the psychological thriller also includes Kevin Kline, Sacha Baron Cohen, Lesley Manville, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Louis Partridge, Leila George, and Hoyeon. Cuarón has a deal with Apple that was first announced in 2019.
The “Gravity” and “Roma” director is set to be receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2024 Locarno Film Festival . “Disclaimer” is certainly not Cuarón’s first literary adaptation, either: The filmmaker has brought novels “Great Expectations,” “A Little Princess,” “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” and “Children of Men” to the screen across his career.
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