6 d. ago Cate Blanchett, Heston Blumenthal, FKA twigs: best original Observer photography

From Heston Blumenthal on the bipolar diagnosis that saved his life to FKA twigs and Charlotte Church on her retreat space in Wales: the best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in March 2025 Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Dressing Naomi Campbell, Cate Blanchett and a show inside a skirt: Martin Grant’s 40

From 1980s Melbourne to 2020s Paris, the Australian fashion designer reflects on some of the highlights of his career, featured in a major retrospective at the National Gallery of VictoriaMartin Grant exhibition is at the Ian Potter Centre, NGV in Melbourne from 25 March 2025 to 26 January 2026Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Continue reading...

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1 week ago Inside Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender's super stylish house in the Black Bag film

The production design behind the super slick look of the new spy thriller

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2 w. ago Cate Blanchett has a controversial idea for the future of awards shows

‘There’s so few spaces that you can go now, where you are private,’ says the Oscar winner

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2 w. ago Cate Blanchett has a controversial idea that would bring back fun to awards shows

‘There’s so few spaces that you can go now, where you are private,’ says the Oscar winner

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2 w. ago Hollywood stars call on Donald Trump to make AI pay for their work amid tech row

Cate Blanchett, Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Bette Midler are among 400 actors, film-makers, writers and musicians urging his administration to resist lobbying by Silicon Valley.

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2 w. ago Black Bag review – glossy Steven Soderbergh spy thriller is less Slow Horses, more show pony

Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett head a starry cast to match the luxurious production design, but the director’s espionage yarn could do with some gritIn a world built on deception, populated by people who can lie as easily as breathe, strait-laced British intelligence agent George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender) values the truth above all else. Which is probably why he’s given the task of unmasking a traitor suspected of stealing and selling a piece of potentially devastating technology. What complicates matters is the fact that one of the main suspects is his wife, high-ranking fellow agent Kathryn (Cate Blanchett). Others in the frame include in-house psychiatrist Dr Zoe Vaughan (Naomie Harris), alcoholic maverick Freddie Smalls (Tom Burke) and junior agent Clarissa Dubose (Marisa Abela).This knotty spy thriller from Steven Soderbergh attempts to distract us from a convoluted plot and baffling character motivations with fabulously chic interiors, impeccable tailoring and a ge...

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3 w. ago Bond actress Naomie Harris says she hopes franchise doesn’t become ‘too modern’

The British actress who features on the latest digital cover of Harper’s Bazaar also teased her pick of who should be the next 007.

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3 w. ago Cate Blanchett Wears Backless Dress for ‘Black Bag’ London Premiere with Michael Fassbender & More

Cate Blanchett Wears Backless Dress for ‘Black Bag’ London Premiere with Michael Fassbender & More  Just Jared

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3 w. ago Cate Blanchett pans film industry for gender inequality and insists women are 'still having to fight' for #MeToo progress: 'We're nowhere near equal pay!'

Speaking on Monday, days before the release of spy thriller Black Bag, in which she stars opposite Michael Fassbender, the actress, 55, made her feelings clear on inequalities within Hollywood.

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3 w. ago Cate Blanchett reveals daring morning activity keeping her ‘sane’

‘You can resist that pain or you can surrender to it,’ actor said

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3 w. ago Cate Blanchett says Hollywood is still ‘nowhere near equal pay’

Australian actor was one of several to speak out about equal pay during the #MeToo movement

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3 w. ago ‘Everything is so fragile’: Cate Blanchett on marriage, #MeToo and the state of the world

Over turmeric tea one evening, double Oscar winner Cate Blanchett talks about the secret of relationships and how to survive the current news cycle. The answer? Jump into the ice Cate Blanchett saw in the New Year in the Arctic, with her husband and four children, by cutting a hole in the ice and jumping in. It was -30C and she wore a “funny hat” for the cold and, “It was fabulous,” because, she says, “Everything paused.” It’s February now, and the restaurant near the river is just beginning to fill with evening diners when Blanchett slides between the tables in her tartan “chicken feeding coat” [is this her description?] and striped shirt, collar popped. “Who are they murdering out the back?” she shouts – the noise of dough being pounded in the kitchen sounds as if they’re beating somebody to death and means we need to lean in, over her pot of turmeric tea. “I always thought, if the acting thing didn’t work out, which it still might not, I would love to be a Foley artist,” creating...

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4 w. ago Cate Blanchett soars in the Barbican’s utterly engrossing update of Chekov’s The Seagull

Tom Burke and Emma Corrin also star in this three-hour production of the classic play that’s languid, thoughtful, and often hilarious

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4 w. ago Cate Blanchett shines in the Barbican’s utterly engrossing update of Chekov’s The Seagull

Cate Blanchett stars in a three-hour production of the classic play that’s languid, thoughtful, and often hilarious

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4 w. ago The Seagull review at Barbican Theatre, London: Cate Blanchett is incandescent

The Seagull review at Barbican Theatre, London: Cate Blanchett is incandescent  The Stage

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4 w. ago The Seagull, Barbican Centre review: Cate Blanchett stars in an indulgent take on the Chekhov classic

The Seagull, Barbican Centre review: Cate Blanchett stars in an indulgent take on the Chekhov classic  Time Out London

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4 w. ago The Seagull at the Barbican review: is Cate Blanchett's performance the year's best?

Blanchett delivers an highly skillful performance in director Thomas Ostermeier’s meta production of the Chekhov class

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4 w. ago From Ripley to Ragnarok: Cate Blanchett’s 20 best film performances – ranked!

Ahead of her starring role in Steven Soderbergh’s thriller Black Bag, and as her London stage run in The Seagull continues, we look at the screen queen’s most commanding rolesCate Blanchett played a pretty generic “wife” role in this interesting, somewhat forgotten US comedy about air traffic controllers from director Mike Newell, whose title is their slang for guiding planes. It was saddled with a terrible ending by its screenwriters, Glen and Les Charles (creators of TV’s Cheers), and blitzed at the box office by The Matrix. Its genesis is amusingly described by its producer, Art Linson, in his memoir What Just Happened? Blanchett plays the wife of hotshot young air traffic controller John Cusack, who has an affair with Angelina Jolie – who is married to Cusack’s workplace rival, Billy Bob Thornton. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Domino's divides pizza fans with quirky topping branded the 'only acceptable' one

Takeaway favourite Domino's shared a controversial topping idea online, with some fans thoroughly impressed and branding it "delicious," while others said it was just wrong

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