Has Cate Blanchett's Career Gone Down the Shitter in 2024?

Whenever she goes the blockbuster route it's a fail.

Does she need money that badly?

I thought this diva made huge swan song semiotics that she was retiring from her illustrious career as a grande thespian.

R3: She's no Daniel Day Lewis.

She doesn't actually have much talent - little versatility, less connection with other actors.

She always "performs."

Like a Tilda Swinson with eyebrows.

She's no Jessica Lange.

there is a rumor that she will be back on the West End soon (Seagull directed by Ostermeier)

Variety says After ‘Tár,' It's Strange to See Cate Blanchett Slumming in a Middling Video Game Movie

She’s an ACTRESS not a movie star.

I'm looking forward to the Alfonso Cuarón tv drama she's in on Apple in October.

Lesley Manville, Kevin Kline, Sacha Baron Cohen, that weird Australian kid from The Power Of The Dog,

I always looked at her as the Meryl Streep of my (Millennial) generation. But even Meryl wouldn’t accept trash like Borderlands.

R9, she is desperate to continue her image as a movie star. She must have a contract rider that provides the luxury corner suite, her makeup team and red carpet entrances for the Venice, Cannes, etc. film festivals. And of course, her desire for honorary award recognition. Without appearances there wouldn't be much need for her Armani and Louis V. contract.

She got $3 billion for Lord of the Rings.

Blanchett is a great actress but she does come across as utterly pretentious in way that Meryl and Glenn and Judi and Helen don't.

Even the good humour has a pretentious air to it.

She doesn't have the Frenchness to pull it off.

[quote]She got $3 billion for Lord of the Rings.

Press X for doubt.

Her character's comeuppance in TAR was a thing of beauty to see!

[Quote] She doesn't actually have much talent - little versatility, less connection with other actors.

[Quote] She always "performs."

This is invariably said by a person who doesn’t like an actor praised as skilled. “Highly performative! Quite mannered don’t you know!”

Ok, who is just a very skilled actor in your opinion?

Maybe she’s like Michael Caine—a solid actor who would take schlock for the big bucks with no shame.

Most stars will take schlock and the good actors among them will make the schlock successful and entertaining.

She needs to stick to playing lesbians.

I always thought she had the eyes and mouth to play a vampire.

Lesbian vampire should be her next role.

R19, I don't think she made the schlock successful or entertaining in this one.

R21 exactly, Einstein. Which was. my snarky point. She sucks in schlocks and she's not the grande thespian she takes herself to be.

Sate

What’s the point of being Australian if not to have a well of Kath and Kim tastelessness to tap into? See you at Fountain Gate Mall, Cate!

This is what happens when you marry a talentless writer who can't carry his own weight. I believe all of his employment opportunities have been courtesy of Cate's name.

Is she blind or an actual lesbian? See Below:

I think she does more stage work than any star of her generation, doesn’t she?

She’s divine.

I still like her but she never was going to be a big movie star. I hope she at least gets some decent roles as she ages into her 60s.

Cate Blanchett Breaks Down Her Most Iconic Characters

Now is the time to release her line of fashionable blankets which offer no warmth called Cate Blankett.

Most actors have no qualms taking on terrible roles. They all start out in commercials.

(Cate wished for a packet of Tim-tams that never ran out!)

We know.

This will be her second flop with Eli Roth.

Who?

More Variety.

Look to Blanchett for a master class in making even the most ridiculous character sound convincing...she plays the flamboyant vigilante without slipping into camp (the way she did in "Thor: Ragnarok"). Even so, it's hard to overlook the irony, two years after "Tár," of seeing the star embody a video game character, considering where that film's whomp-whomp ending left her (at rock bottom, conducting video game music for a cosplay crowd).

Shouldn't she be in the middle of the poster, instead of something with a dog head?

Trailer for Disclaimer.

I'll live.

One of my favorite performances is of her in Don’t Look Up. She is perfect.

She's a prestige movie star in the vein of Meryl in the 1980s and similar to Kate Winslet up until fairly recently. They are continually cast and get nominated for awards bait projects. However, once they hit their 40s those parts going to younger actresses and they have to start working in more commercial fare to keep their profile up. Having done seemingly one awards bait film anually in the 1980s, Meryl had to start 'slumming' it by doing more mainstream commercial pictures in the 1990s, Death Becomes Her, She Devil (technically late '80s), Postcards, The River Wild, Music of the Heart. The prestige level of Meryl's films dropped in the 1990s and it was in the mainstream The Devil Wears Prada where Meryl reupped her cred as THE film actress of her era. Cate (and Winslet) are both going through a similar career phase that Meryl went through in the '90s and early '00s, though now there is prestige cable which helps a bit (at least Winslet).

Agree but a key difference is that Streep was a box office star, even in her 40s and 50s, but Cate and Kate may be too humorless for that to happen. Kate did well with Mare of Easttown but I can’t imagine Cate doing that role. She’s too cerebral and uptight.

Wasn't much of a fan of Jamie Lee Curtis but she was pretty funny here. When she told Cate she couldn't dance -- that was really something. I think Cate was in shock because she clearly believes she's a good dancer.

She's too old and too handsome looking.

Their dynamic is so off-putting I would never want to see them in a film together.

Jamie Lee must have missed Cate's dancing in this music video.

Hello? I do exist.

R40 Yes I would say that Kate W has more range. She can be warm whereas Cate is a bit of an ice queen.

I like Kate W more and more. She takes good roles and there is a humility/grace to her. The Regime was not great but funny. Cate prides herself on taking the "weird ask" roles. Her movie Rumours coming out in the fall looks absolutely dreadful.

Rumours trailer.

Cate just isn't all that attractive.

Those racoon eyes on Jamie Lee in the interview do her no favors.

Personally I think Cate is a better stage actress.

[quote] Personally I think Cate is a better stage actress.

I felt the same way about Meryl.

I love Cate Blanchett but she benefitted from what I call prestigious white woman syndrome. That is phenomenal white actresses who never really were box office draws but became A list because of prestige projects and a bunch of Oscar wins or nods. They had a few projects with a bigger budget than your typical indie flick and went all the way to the Oscars. Their A list status is then inflated because they are nice looking white women. I bet you she demands a higher salary than Taraji P. Henson and she shouldn’t because Taraji has actually put butts in seats.

Sure R53. How many butts did Taraji put in theaters for The Color Purple? To compare her to Cate Blanchett is laughable. If you want a fair comparison acting-wise, write a post comparing Cate and Viola (and please leave your delusional Whoopi love out of it.)

R54 I never said she didn’t have flops. Care Blanchett is a phenomenal actress, just brilliant. She is my favorite white leading lady after G. I’m comparing to A listers and the Hollywood double standard of how they treat women of color. I personally believe Taraji is a better actress than V. V has been called the black Meryl Streep. She is more like the black Julianne Moore. Good but not great.

[quote]extremely fortunate based on her metrics and many dud films.

A decade of duds hasn't seemed to hurt Nicole Kidman.

[quote]She got $3 billion for Lord of the Rings.

This never happened.

[quote]Taraji has actually put butts in seats.

This also never happened.

People say black actors don’t do well overseas. It’s funny because it seems like we were it doing very well for centuries lol.

#Opportunity

R55, what has she ever done to make you think Taraji is A-List? A tv/voice actress who occasionally scores a supporting role in an ensemble cast. To quote one of your favorites: Seriously?

Kate W has more personality. Cate tries to come off hip and cool but more often than not it comes across as phony and desperate.

[quote]V has been called the black Meryl Streep.

Viola called herself that.

Taraji starred in one of the biggest scripted shows on television. And make no mistake about it; she was the star of Hidden Figures even though it had a large cast. Also starred in What Men Want and a couple of Tyler Perry films that were profitable. Benjamin Button, Four Brothers, Date Night.

R61 I don’t think Cate is phony at all and I think she is a better actress than the talented Kate Winslet. She had me in stitches on WWHL.

Benjamin Button? You mean she had a minor supporting role in a Cate Blanchett film. Kind of sums up her career vs Cate's.

Even if we go with your argument, that she was denied roles because of the color of her skin - if she were truly the stand-out you claim she is, she would have been offered more prestigious roles in small independent films. Either she took the easy paycheck for the Tyler Perry films or those great roles were not forthcoming. I'm guessing it's the latter.

[quote]R41 Wasn't much of a fan of Jamie Lee Curtis but she was pretty funny here.

JL Curtis has always been pushy and grating.

You’d think finally getting an Oscar would calm her down but it’s just made her worse.

I thought Jamie Lee was the alpha in this interview - rare to see with Cate. Jamie also called her out on wearing a leather outfit in July. Two very different women: Cate with her hair extensions, fake gel nails and loads of plastic surgery. Jamie -- IDGAF secure with her gray hair, wrinkles and opinions.

R65 I wouldn’t call her role minor. After Brad and Cate she is defacto lead of the support cast.

R67, people like Jamie who always claim to not give a fuck. Give a fuck. Her behavior in that video proves as much. Her "look at me aging naturally" is more blatantly obnoxious and attention-seeking than Cate's choice to maintain a conventionally feminine look for a career that requires as much.

[quote] One of my favorite performances is of her in Don’t Look Up. She is perfect.

Agreed, because it's the role most like her real life personality. In every interview that I've seen of her, she comes across as superior and dismissive.

R69 How can someone’s look at me aging naturally be obnoxious. That doesn’t even make sense. At that point you are splitting hairs to criticize someone.

Cate is brilliant in Blue Jasmine and Talented Mr. Ripley.

Jamie has to go against the Hollywood norm and talk about it incessantly because she's "so authentic." She's more of a fake than any of the botoxed and bleached blonde Cate Blanchetts in Hollywood.

Now go take a nap. Thanks.

Like I said for a grown adult to state someone aging naturally is obnoxious is a grown adult that isn’t very grown at all.

With the news of the Glengarry Glen Ross remake, she should produce either a remake or an upade of A Streetcar Named Desire; alas, as good as Cate was playing Blance at BAM, she's obviously too mature to play the role, now. I just pray it isn't someone like Mia Goth as Blanche.

I don’t blame prestige actors who take paycheck roles as they age. A bitch gotta eat. Many of us are working in corporate America shilling products or working for companies that are utterly harmful for the environment.

Cate and Gina Gershon were interviewed by Andy Cohen on WWHL the other night so I would say her career is officially on the crapper. She was also a big bore. But, I watched TAR on cable last night. My second viewing and I cannot understand how she lost the Oscar. She is brilliant.

R77 WWHL is a highly popular show. Superstars go on there all the time men and women. The only superstar you will never see on there is the Queen because she doesn’t do regular shit.

She doesn't do live interviews because she comes off like an idiot, teacake, and I'm a fan.

R79. You sound like an idiot. She did interviews for over 15 years until she got to a place where simply didn’t have to. The Queen doesn’t follow anyone on instagram, not even her own husband.She is a celebrity to celebrities. It’s all part of her brand as the 21st century goddess of Hollywood.

Cate has "open mouth - insert foot" disease. Witness her recent comments about being middle class.

R81 I heard that middle class means different abroad and in European culture it’s a signifier of an educated class of professional people. Basically what we use as middle means upper middle class in Western Europe and Australia.

People felt that as a multi-millionaire, she had some nerve describing herself as "middle class," but she meant that in terms of her background and values rather than in terms of her current bank balance.

Except she didn't grow up as middle class. Maybe she'd like people to believe that but she grew up in wealthy enclave and attended private schools. She grew up with privilege.

She should wisely avoid drawing attention to her social class in interviews altogether, when referring to either her upbringing or her current financial status. And, preferably, learn to talk a little less like her "Carol" character.

At heart, Australians are trashy. Cate may pretend to be a lady but she’s a trashy Sheila.

She likes to think of herself as a Southern Hemisphere Isabelle Huppert.

Is Cate a better actress than fellow Aussie Toni Collette?

R88 Oh wow all these years I thought she was British. Wow. Because I first discovered her in About a Boy.

I've seen Tar 5 times. Brilliant. I honestly want to read the screenplay, her monologues must go on for pages.

[quote] After Brad and Cate she is defacto

No, you are Defacto.

Hasn't her career been IN THE SHITTER before? More than once? She seems to have survived those intervals when her career was IN THE SHITTER. If her career is, indeed, IN THE SHITTER, right now, I wouldn't worry. She's proven herself capable of reviving a career that was IN THE SHITTER before.

And I'm not sure it's IN THE SHITTER now. Who decides on the criteria for identifying a career is IN THE SHITTER? There has been a multitude of comebacks from IN THE SHITTER.

She’s appearing in B-movies with hermaphrodite performer Jamie Lee Curtis so her career is essentially on the skids.

I think Angela and Cate are friendly with each other.

Is it possible that Blanchett comes across as “superior and dismissive” only to people like you, R70?

[quote]Jamie -- IDGAF secure with her gray hair, wrinkles and opinions.

You still think that horseshit after last year? Bitch would have rolled around naked through mud if it meant getting that oscar. It was one of the most embarrassing campaigns ever.

R96 rolling around in mud naked. Great idea for my Emmy campaign. Thanks.

R84 the majority of Australians see themselves - ourselves - as middle class. Blanchett went to a private school but a lot of Australians went to private schools. She was also raised by a single mother as her father died when she was quite young - ten, I think. She grew up in a nice enough Melbourne suburb.

Yes, she’s now rich and famous, but I’d see her values as Australian middle class. I’ve seen her on public transport in Sydney a couple of times - no limos there.

The problem is that she described herself as middle class in an English context where the class stratifications are much more nuanced. Here she’s just another Methodist Ladies College old girl who did well for herself. And good luck to her!

Cate's dad was originally from the US so I believe she's always had dual citizenship.

The actress I wish did more is Charlize. But not action films. The actress I wish did less? Nicole Kidman! She’s become a poor man’s Donna Mills.

You've never seen Muriel's Wedding, teacake?

Is Cate a better actress than fellow Aussie Toni Collette?

I equate them as Toni as Oscar and Cate as Felix in The Odd Couple. If they switched roles they would be ACTING. Toni is more proletariat and is just as phony as Cate to me. I hate her resting retard face.

Cate BlandShit

Love her or hate her - she is talented.

A while ago I wrote a comment about her here saying I thought she may be shy and that's why she could be perceived as standoffish in certain situations. Someone replied that they had first-hand knowledge she was a bitch. I'm assuming they worked with her, but they offered no further details.

When there are rumors, about "difficult" celebs, I often take them with a grain of salt. If they're still steadily working after years in the business, it usually means they're professional and they don't cause problem on set. Cate's still working, so take from that what you will.

I feel sorry for her. That video game film is a major bomb.

[quote]If they're still steadily working after years in the business, it usually means they're professional and they don't cause problem on set.

Hahaha.

R107, unless you have first-hand knowledge you'd like to share, I'll just chalk up your comment as another person believing what they read.

This looks like a poor man’s Guardians Of The Galaxy.

She was good in that Thor movie, but I think it was dumb luck and editing.

[quote]Has Cate Blanchett's Career Gone Down the Shitter in 2024?

No, OP. It has gone the way of 'I'll do whatever pays the most' and, by the looks of it, it's working rather well for her... Well, at least from a financial standpoint. In terms of quality, things are not so positive.

Terrible movie but I'm sure she's happy to use her 8-10 million fee to buy more solar panels for her mansion.

R112 the problem with that strategy for an actor like Blanchett is that their name is linked with quality and low-grade projects, no matter how much they pay can have a damaging effect on that aspect of their brand. Olivier--sort of--got away with it, but Blanchett has never been the stature of Olivier...

It just proves again that Cate is box office poison.☠️

[quote]the problem with that strategy for an actor like Blanchett is that their name is linked with quality and low-grade projects, no matter how much they pay can have a damaging effect on that aspect of their brand. Olivier--sort of--got away with it, but Blanchett has never been the stature of Olivier...

I think the general public/movie lovers will continue to associate her with her stronger, more serious roles, such as "Blue Jasmine," "Elizabeth," "Carol," and even "Tár." All schlock aside, like Liam Neeson, she proved that she can act decades ago. Some careers are quite immune to low-grade output and/or flops. Even thespy Tilda Swinton has done Marvel stuff (Dr. Strange and Avengers: Endgame).

^She truly is and has been box office poison for a long time. Like Lydia Tar, Cate needs a PR reset. Someone in her inner circle, please whisper the idea of being humble from now on. Hard concept for her, I know, but less talking might be an advantage.

She'll be like Redgrave, working into her seventies and eighties

Yes, Redgrave did but pretty much outside of the typical Hollywood structure. Her political activism over the years played a part.

Cate was very good in The Gift.

She needs to consider a Goop-like lifestyle brand.

R104 she surely is. Her and G might be the greatest actresses alive today.

Sorry if this has been mentioned before, I'm too lazy to read all of the replies. What happened to Cate's nose? In the movie Tar, she looked like she had a nose job but now her nose looks normal again.

R120. Very good. Keeanu too. Might be his best performance actually.

Glenn is one of the greatest actresses alive? Oh brother. In what basis? Hillbilly Elegy?

I think it's funny to imagine Meryl Streep trying to do Blanchett's role in TAR; that would've been possibly the campiest movie ever made.

Blanchett was totally robbed of the Oscar for that role.

The girl needs a sitcom!

It's officially a bomb

If she was Cate’s age, yes I can imagine Streep doing Tar. The only difference is that more people would have seen it.

[quote] She'll be like Redgrave, working into her seventies and eighties.

Redgrave hasn’t done anything of note for years. She was phenomenal in Atonement but mainly because she got to follow Saiorse Ronan and Romola Garai.

Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins and Glenda Jackson are all better companions to Blanchett. Jackson won major awards after coming out of retirement after over 20 years as an MP.

Diane Rigg had a higher profile before her death and Anne Reid and Judy Parfitt are getting better roles than Redgrave.

Vanessa Redgrave is in poor health and has been for the past few years.

I think her career will go the way of De Niro i.e. anything to pay the bills. He has a bunch of ex-wives and lovers who are mothers of his children (7 kids) one of which was born last year.

She has that unemployable, unfortunate looking husband and a bunch of kids to support.

She's pretentious , overhyped, full.of it and all her movies suck

R132 = Guy Pearce.

R132, maybe she'll be part of an ensemble "big" picture but probably never again as the lead. She'll stick to her smaller artsy movies with her desired directors. Small budget with small box office expectations. Hopefully, she can lay off the plastic surgery before she morphs into Ellen Barkin territory.

As long as middle aged woman around the world continue to make history there is a biopic waiting for Cate Blanchett.

Andrew Upton - Blanchett's husband - is hardly unemployable. He was a successful and recognised playwright and screen writer before they met and has continued as a screenwriter, producer, actor and director since then. He was, along with his wife, artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company for five years. Of course you will say that that was only because of his wife, which would show that you know nothing about the Sydney Theatre Company.

I have no comment on his appearance, being no oil painting myself, but let me ask you, R132 - what do you look like? Incredibly attractive? And your professional accomplishments? Care to list them, or at least the highlights? Of many, obviously.

R137 you gotta remember the average Datalounger is bitter and basic as fuck.

Cate is my favorite actor so say what you want, makes no difference to me, I love her.

Actually before Andrew Upton met Cate he worked in the script continuity department of a few films. He made his own short film with her (Bangers - unbelievably bad). The fantasy that he was a successful and recognized playwright prior to meeting her is ridiculous. She is 100% responsible for his success - he is fortunate to have piggybacked on her name, her talent & her reputation in the industry.

I'll add to R140's post by adding the abysmal Riflemind. I read the play, and it was awful. Needless to say, it closed after a few performances.

A Review: Riflemind Genre: Drama Opened 18 Sep 2008 Written: by Andrew Upton Directed: Philip Seymour Hoffman Cast: John Hannah, Paul Hilton, Susan Prior, Steve Rodgers, Jeremy Sims, Ruth Gemmell (Cindy) Synopsis: Twenty years after their frontman, John, walked off stage for good, the iconic rock band Riflemind are set to get together again. For John , a reunion might be his second chance; for his wife Lynn , it could be the end of the world as she knows it ... As the band descends upon John's country manor, one weekend fast becomes the ultimate test of talent, friendship and loyalty.

What the popular press had to say..... NICHOLAS DE JONGH for THE EVENING STANDARD says, "Aggressively dull." THE DAILY TELEGRAPH says, "Andrew Upton, however, better known as Mr Cate Blanchett, has somehow managed to turn potential dramatic gold into dreary dross in a leaden and confusing drama that is poorly constructed, dismayingly unfunny, and without a single character you come to care about." BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE for THE TIMES says, "Not interesting enough. The cast is immaculate...The emotional stakes never seem as high as effective drama demands." PAUL TAYLOR for THE INDEPENDENT says, "This international co-producing effort is mortifyingly bad...There are dead lines, there are no deadlines to give the piece requisite tension." MICHAEL BILLINGTON for THE GUARDIAN says, "May be of interest to aficionados but it never achieves the potency of theatrical metaphor...I felt that it never delivered its initial promise of putting rock in a wider social context."

The gag line was that Cate got Andrew Uptown.

Cate Blanchett and Gina Gershon Take The BFF Test

[quote]He was, along with his wife, artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company for five years. Of course you will say that that was only because of his wife, which would show that you know nothing about the Sydney Theatre Company.

You mean, their tendency to choose the shittiest artistic directors they can find? Yeah, I know about them. I hope the incoming one is going to be better than the last.

R137, I guess Giorgio Armani became a patron of the Sydney Theatre Company because Andrew was taking the lead. Good grief.

Cate Is Cleopatra In Armani.

Blanchett is a terrific actress, but as I see it there are two key points to note:

1. She can't do comedy. It's worked for her in film one or two times, but my guess is that was editing fixing her timing. She can't do it on stage for anything.

2. Actors who become very famous very early often do so because they have a freshness, including the ability to make innovative acting choices. Most find it impossible to sustain this quality when they are successful and pampered, and so gradually become caricatures of themselves. Which is easier today than it used to be, when the unrealistic veneers and the ongoing plastic surgery are thrown into the mix. I will grant Kidman, a far inferior actress, that she keeps choosing roles likely to keep her off-balance, and that's why she might end up more esteemed than the technically far superior Blanchett.

Blanchett also has Streep's problem, that she chooses scripts according to the challenge of the role, not according to the excellence of the script as a whole. I suspect in both cases they are not capable of recognising an excellent script.

Does Kate have a new face? I barely recognize her.

Kate Bosworth? Yes.

Cate Blanchett Loves This Borderlands Jumpsuit So Much, She Wore It Twice

R147, go watch Don't Look Up and then get back to us. I thought Cate was fantastic as the morning news anchor. She had great comic timing. Counter that to Meryl's performance in the film which I felt was a little too rehearsed and mechanical. It was like watching comedy by the numbers. Of the two, Cate was the far superior comedic actress.

Cate admires Jamie Lee for Perfect? I have to laugh when Cate equates herself with actresses like Jamie Lee and Gina Gershon.

Cate's performance in Don't Look Up was a caricature and her Nightmare Alley acting was a pile of ham. Cate feels superior to Jamie Lee and Gina - I don't see anything less from her.

In interviews Cate will proclaim sisterhood but in casting when Jamie Lee or Gina is proposed instead of her, she will give an Oh please.

The comparisons to Streep seem off. Cate is not warm or funny. I also don’t know what people are expecting Cate to do differently at this age where she’s in her 50s.. She’s not going to suddenly become popular. Hopefully she recalibrates and stops trying too hard to be commercial.

R153 it was supposed to be a caricature/parody. That's the point of the film for goodness' sake. The only sane people are the protagonists.

R155, have you seen the film? Cate's performance was seamless while Meryl's delivery was off.

Carol annoyed me so much that I never wanted to see her again. I don’t like her placid pixie dream girl roles.

Cate held her own opposite Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal. Judi would have wiped a lesser actress off the screen in that movie. She's a terrific actress.

I hope she finds her way. I was thinking it’s a sign of a movie star that you can be relaxed on camera and draw in an audience. I hope she breaks the code.

I love Gina

Wardrobe malfunction:

I like JLC’s satan outfit.

R161, It's interesting to see how much prettier Jamie is than Cate in that photo. Jamie has gotten better-looking as she's aged, even though she's had no plastic surgery or injections.

They both have good bone structure

That spoon top is creepy.

Borderlands -- so, so very bad.

[quote]R163 Jamie has gotten better-looking as she's aged, even though she's had no plastic surgery or injections.

Jamie Lee Curtis has had her eyes done in the past.

I was just thinking how she looks like a weathered old surfer dude.

I thought during the Tar Oscar campaign she spoke of retiring to Australia where she was going to devote all her time to gardening?

Promises. Promises.

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[quote]In her first theatre performance in six years, the Australian actress will portray Arkadina in an adaptation of Russian writer Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull.

Wow. I saw her play Nina at Belvoir Street, back before Elizabeth.

As for retiring to Australia, the two youngest children must be still at school?

Will this be a new translation by Andrew Upton?

She looked spectacular at the Venice Film Festival.

She rewore two looks in one day. Outrageous!

Cate Blanchett says there is a ‘distinct lack of shame’ in modern society:

R175 She is 100% right. One hundred percent.

Cate Blanchett Says ‘Carol’ Was ‘So Hard to Get Funded’ Because ‘No One Wanted to See’ a Film With ‘Two Women Falling in Love’

Cate Blanchett touched down in Toronto for a wide-ranging talk about creative conflict on film sets, making big-budget films “risky,” and why her six-time Oscar-nominated film “Carol” struggled to find funding.

Blanchett, who is at TIFF supporting Alfonso Cuarón’s Apple TV+ show “Disclaimer” and Guy Maddin’s film “Rumours,” was welcomed at the Royal Alexandra Theatre with a standing ovation after fans lined up early to acquire rush tickets to the event.

Early in the conversation, Blanchett talked about her love for performing theater in front of a live audience, leading her to address the “streamers out there” that don’t release viewership data.

"The world has no shame."

Well.....she would know all about that.

Why spoons are Cate Blanchett’s new fashion accessory

The actress has worn eye-catching garments made from cutlery on two different red carpets. They are designed by Swede Ellen Hodakova Larsson, who has just won the LVMH award and counts Emma Corrin and Kylie Jenner among fans of her recycled-material designs

Cate likes to present as just plain folks by using public transport but you just know she has mace in her purse ready to use on anyone who speaks to her.

I think she would just ignore you and stare at her phone. Cate's mid-life crisis is on full display with her recent show-my-chest outfits and spoon accessories. Not to mention her terrible performance in Borderlands and upcoming Rumours.

DL fave of legend Bunnika wouldn't have the spoons for that dress

She's in it for the long haul. An actor of her staure takes the work to pay the bills, great writing for women in movies is such a crap shoot, especially lately. Look at Russel Crowe, he's just a jobbing actor now, Something will come up that'll have substanse, for the both of their careers. The industry is stagnant and all I hear or read is that it's failing, or some exorbadunt amout of money is spent and wasted. Direct to streaming, less pay and shorter careers is what I think will happen to actors. It's happening now but some will still hold on to movies. The pictures are getting smaller and smaller.

R181 Yes, she has really been obnoxious lately. I don't care for her anymore.

She's exhausting.

Wearing the spoons on stage at TIFF:

I think she would just ignore you and stare at her phone

She is more likely to be reading a book old school.

R183=Norma Desmond.