2 h. 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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5 h. ago Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, civil rights leaders in Selma continue fight

Election of Trump and threats to democracy front of mind as activists remember peaceful marchers attacked by policeWhat would John Lewis do today?On a Sunday morning 60 years ago, activists rewrote the story of the civil rights movement in their own blood on the streets of Selma, Alabama. State troopers turned their truncheons on a peaceful march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge at the behest of Alabama’s stridently and infamously racist governor George Wallace, protecting Alabama segregation and white supremacy. Continue reading...

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8 h. 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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29 h. 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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34 h. 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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3 d. 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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3 d. 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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3 d. 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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3 d. 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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3 d. 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 d. 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 d. ago Steven Soderbergh’s new thriller Black Bag about married spies is brilliant, sexy, and as tight as a drum

Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett’s espionage aces share a marital bed – but not state secrets – in this immensely pleasurable new genre outing

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4 d. ago Black Bag review – Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett intrigue in marital espionage

Steven Soderbergh’s spy comedy sends two married agents after a mole, who might turn out to be one of themThe months and years drag on with no new James Bond, no clear indication of how he is to be repurposed as IP. Into this vacuum has rushed a new generation of spy stories on streaming television: action-intelligence office procedurals such as Black Doves, The Day of the Jackal, Slow Horses and indeed The Agency, starring Michael Fassbender, remade from the French show Le Bureau Des Légendes. These are secret agent dramas that give us the violence and the tech, juxtaposing suspected treason and infidelity in the traditional way, but with a new kind of workaday realist sexiness, and more elaborately about showing up for work: much emphasis on ID badges of various security-clearance levels that beep on card readers and can be worn round your neck on lanyards.Steven Soderbergh’s downbeat, affectless tongue-in-cheek spy comedy (“caper” isn’t quite right) is in this new mode, though ta...

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1 week ago The 10 best new London theatre shows to see in March, from Cate Blanchett to My Neighbour Totoro

The 10 best new London theatre shows to see in March, from Cate Blanchett to My Neighbour Totoro  Time Out London

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2 w. ago Roksanda brings sculptural silhouettes to London Fashion Week

The Princess of Wales’ beloved designer played with space and shapes at London Fashion Week.

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2 w. ago This is Farage’s moment of reckoning: he can choose British voters – or Putin and Trump | Gaby Hinsliff

The Reform leader and Kemi Badenoch have struck the wrong alliances at the wrong time. Ukrainian sovereignty is a cause close to rightwing heartsTiming is everything in politics. So when the leader of the opposition realised she was due to be making a speech heaping praise on Donald Trump, just as the president plunged her own country into a national security crisis, you might think even she would have hesitated.But seemingly nothing can keep Kemi Badenoch from a culture war, not even the threat of an actual war. So, at a rightwing conference in London on Monday morning, she duly ripped into corporate diversity policies, climate activism, Keir Starmer taking the knee four and a half years ago, and various other imagined threats to western civilisation that are not forcing Britain to consider deploying troops against them, before concluding triumphantly that when people ask her what difference a change of leader makes, her answer is, “Take a look at President Trump.”Gaby Hinsliff is ...

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