Cate blanchett gay
Well, it was a nice five days, wasn&#;t it? A authentic nice hours. A glorious almost-week of thinking Cate Blanchett had enjoyed many dips in the lady pond, many trips around the sapphic sun, many evenings at Jodie Foster&#;s clambake. It was just Thursday when Variety published a profile of Blanchett that included this exchange:
When asked if this is her first turn as a lesbian, Blanchett curls her lips into a smile. “On film — or in genuine life?&#; she asks coyly. Pressed for details about whether she’s had past relationships with women, she responds: “Yes. Many times,&#; but doesn’t elaborate. Like Carol, who never “comes out&#; as a lesbian, Blanchett doesn’t necessarily rely on labels for sexual orientation.
We delighted in the glory of that revelation, like everyone else with a beating heart. (I represent, even the New York Times was excited.) And now we must all rip our clothes and wail because it turns out Variety misquoted Blanchett, and she hasn&#;t gone spelunking in Janey Cave, after all. While promoting her upcoming lesbian-themed film, Carol, at a Cannes press con
Cate Blanchett defends straight actors playing LGBT roles
Cate Blanchett has defended straight actors playing gay roles in film and TV.
Hollywood has been criticised for giving LGBT roles to straight actors and earlier this year Scarlett Johansson pulled out of playing a trans character following a backlash.
Blanchett played a lesbian in 's Carol.
She said: "I will fight to the death for the right to suspend disbelief and play roles beyond my experience."
The Australian actress disagrees with the idea that a performer only really knows a character if they have shared experiences.
"Reality television and all that that entails had an extraordinary impact, a profound impact on the way we view the creation of character," she said during a Q&A at the Rome Film Festival.
"I think it provides a lot of opportunity, but the downside of it is that we now, particularly in America, we expect and only expect people to make a profound connection to a character when it's close to their experience
I’m going to keep ringing this bell, I don’t care how annoying I am: Tár was my favorite film of the past year. The past several years, honestly. I loved Cate Blanchett’s performance, I love the ghost story aspect of the film, I love the evocative, moody, gothic drama of it, I loved that Todd Field created this total world of Lydia Tár. As I was reading Cate’s Awards Insider cover story, I learned that the box office for Tár was actually pretty bad? But it’s been available for streaming/rent for nearly two months, so I imagine that’s how people will find the movie, as I did. You should absolutely aim to find it, it’s brilliant! Anyway, Cate has been promoting Tár for months and she found herself in the middle of a huge Oscar campaign, thus this Awards Insider cover. Her interview was charming (to me). Some highlights:
Cate doesn’t even have all the answers on Tár: “I found Tár the most all-consuming, confronting, joyous, life-affirming endeavor that I’ve ever been involved in. I don’t understand what exactly it is, but I know it’s something. So I want people to declare me what i
Sorry, Cate Blanchett, Gays Really Carry out Need to Shout Their Sexuality From the Rafters
I admit, in May, when a Variety cover story suggested that the gorgeous and brilliant actress Cate Blanchett might harbor same-sex desires, I was as aflame as any other red-blooded American dyke.
Imagine my disappointment when, at the Cannes Film Festival a few days later, she claimed that the reporter had misrepresented their conversation. In fact, she’s not had sexual relations with women. That revelation wasn’t as surprising, though, as the contempt she seemed to express toward gays who, in her view, make their sexualities too public and central to their identities.
Discussing Carol, her new film based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Price of Salt, which chronicles a like affair between two women in s New York City, Blanchett told the press at Cannes that Carol’s “sexuality is a private affair,” adding with perceptible disdain: “What happens these days is if you are homosexual, you have to talk about it constantly; it has to be the only thing; you have to put it before your work, be