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Carol sweeps gay and lesbian critics’ awards after Oscars snub

Cate Blanchett won a Dorian Award as Best Actress! Fifties romance Carol was the big winner in the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association awards – the Dorians – taking five top prizes including best film, best director for Todd Haynes and best actress for Cate Blanchett. The critically acclaimed period drama, which was nominated for … Continue reading

New video interviews from Carol promotion

Two new video interviews! The first one might be look familiar: it’s a longer version of an interview for Entertainment Weekly, now revived for the Oscars Gallery Links: Video Screencaptures > Online Interviews > Entertainment Weekly: Academy Awards – January 14th, 2016 The second interview, aired on the French channel Canal+, puts together bits of interviews from Cannes … Continue reading

New interviews and featurettes for Carol

Three new interviews: from Spain Gallery Links: Video Screencaptures > Press Junket & Promotional Interviews > Carol > El Diario (Spain) From Belgium Cate Blanchett ontdekt de damesliefde in ‘Carol’: ‘Ik draag een galajurk, maar je zou mijn onderbroek eens moeten zien’ Veel films maakt Cate Blanchett de jongste jaren niet meer. Daarvoor heeft ze … Continue reading

Recent interviews: Variety’s Actors on Actors and Carol press junket

Good morning! The video from the Actors on Actors Conversations between Cate Blanchett and Ian McKellen, Gallery Links: Video Screencaptures > Online Interviews > Variety – Actors on Actors Conversations – December 2015 And four new press junket interviews for Carol, the first one recored after the Los Angeles press conference of Carol (Nov. 13), and … Continue reading

Two short interviews with Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett: forbidden love and female empowerment It’s been touted as period-defining – even a ‘lesbian cult classic’ – but for Hollywood royalty Cate Blanchett, the premise behind Carol, the big-screen adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s seminal novel, The Price Of Salt, is far simpler. “It’s about two people falling in love, in the way that … Continue reading

Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara and Todd Haynes for Dujour

The lead actresses and the director of Carol share their defining moments with Dujour. Carol “It felt real for me once we landed in Cincinnati. I had never been there and in a way we could have never achieved what we did in the film in New York,” the actress says of the 1950s story … Continue reading

Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara talk with the Los Angeles Times

New interview and new photoshoot! Gallery Links: Photoshoots, Outtakes, Portraits & Photo Sessions > 2015 > 024 – Los Angeles Times Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara faced ‘secrets … forbidden topics … taboos’ in the world of ‘Carol’ In the period drama “Carol,” Cate Blanchett plays the elegant, sophisticated, title character who resides in the tony … Continue reading

Cate Blanchett Covers W Magazine December 2015

Cate Blanchett Covers W Magazine December 2015

Cate Blanchett is the cover of the December issue of W Magazine, here are the cover, photoshoot and a preview of the article. Dont forget to pick up your issue on the newsstand or the digital version! Cate Blanchett: A Rose Without Thorns Cate Blanchett insists she is not the embodiment of perfection. We beg … Continue reading

The Guardian Weekend: Interview and photos

The Guardian Weekend: Interview and photos

The Guardian published online the interview and the photos from The Weekend insert. Gallery Links: Photoshoots, Outtakes, Portraits & Photo Sessions > 2015 > 018 – The Guardian Weekend – November 7th, 2015 I am half an hour early for the interview but the discreet hotel library has already been taken. A woman (blond, gangly, … Continue reading

‘I can switch off and be a good mother’: Cate Blanchett on juggling her Hollywood career with motherhood

New interview! SHE’S just been honoured for outstanding contributions to film, but Cate Blanchett says acting is still giving her the same kind of kicks it did when she started in the business. “I’m almost afraid to admit that I love it more than ever,” Blanchett says. “Being able to create and play characters and … Continue reading

Cate Blanchett donates her shoes for charity

For the second year in a row, Cate Blanchett donates a pair of her shoes for charity. After the Chloe’s she had worn while shooting Elizabeth, this year she donated the Giorgio Armani’s pale pink pumps she wore during the Robin Hood promotion in Cannes in 2010. You can bid from November 1st at the … Continue reading

Cate Blanchett on Competing Against Herself and Her Favorite Movies of the Year

A new interview with Indiewire! Thanks to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ eligibility guidelines, no actor or actress — lead or supporting — can be nominated in the same category in the same year, a provision that seems likely to impact Cate Blanchett this year, as both of her lead turns in James Vanderbilt’s “Truth” and … Continue reading

Todd Haynes, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara talk ‘Carol’

From the New York Film Festival premiere On Oct. 9, Examiner.com was on the red carpet for the New York Festival premiere of “Carol” at Alice Tully Hall. Director Todd Haynes, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, writer Phyllis Nagy, producers Christine Vachon and Elizabeth Karlsen, and composer Carter Burwell were all in attendance. Blanchett and Mara … Continue reading

Carol – Reviews from NYFF

Not once salacious, Todd Haynes‘ Carol is a subtle and elegant telling of a romance between two women in the 1950s. Cate Blanchett is the title character and Rooney Mara is the young woman smitten by her. Their affair is brief but not without it’s repercussions. Todd Haynes knows a little something about 1950s style … Continue reading

Cate Blanchett on Truth, Quentin Tarantino, and Her Very Big Year

Cate Blanchett talks about Carol, the announced biopic on Lucille Ball, and Cancer Vixen too. When it comes to this year’s Academy Awards, Cate Blanchett has a problem that’s at once frustrating and enviable: she’s poised to dominate this awards season with lead roles in the Todd Haynes lesbian romanceCarol and the journalism drama Truth, but Oscar … Continue reading

Cate Blanchett to attend the New York Film Festival

The 53rd New York Film Festival will host two screenings of Carol: the first one on October 9th, and a second one on October 1oth. The cast is set to attend this one. Romance in New York “Carol,” director Todd Haynes’s 1950s-set tale of forbidden love, has already wowed festival crowds across the globe. Star Rooney … Continue reading

Oscars: Weinstein Confirms It Will Campaign ‘Carol’ Star Cate Blanchett For Lead Actress

The Weinstein Company has made it official, as if there was really any doubt who is a lead and who is supporting in its November 20 release, and Oscar hopeful, Carol. No sooner had my flight back from the Toronto Film Festival landed at LAX than I received a call from TWC clarifying that it definitely will … Continue reading

Cate Blanchett on costumes, characters and red carpets

A new interview with The Telegraph (check the source for the behind-the-scenes video of the new Sì), and two new promotional images for Sì Eau de Toilette. When Woody Allen was asked what it was like to direct Cate Blanchett, the new face of Armani Sì, in Blue Jasmine (in itself a measure of her standing … Continue reading

“Carol” to be screened at the Mill Valley and Austin Film Festivals

Returning for its 38th year, the Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF) runs Thursday, October 8 – Sunday, October 18, 2015, and here’s the early word on what’s to come: 11 days of films, panels and performances in Marin County. This year’s lineup already boasts plenty of Oscar contenders, Cannes winners and Bay Area premieres. The … Continue reading

Cate Blanchett promotes “Sì”

Ten days ago, Vogue Germany published a short interview with Cate Blanchett, and the first promotional image for the new Sì Eau de Toilette campaign. Enjoy! VOGUE: Neben dem Film “Carol” nach einem Roman von Patricia Highsmith stellten Sie während der Filmfestspiele in Cannes auch einen neuen Spot für Armanis Eau de Parfum “Sì” vor. … Continue reading