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| | Cate Blanchett thinks she's old, she's 'suffering a major midlife confidence crisis' | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Cate Blanchett is tied with Emma Thompson for my #1 favorite celebrity/person/actress/fantasy girlfriend. I find Cate to be exquisitely beautiful and mind-numbingly talented, but with all of that beauty and talent, she still seems? real. She seems like fun. She seems sassy and interesting and up for a good time. Maybe she?s a little eccentric, but that?s part of her charm. What I?ve never really doubted about Cate is that she?s a confident woman, because she has so much to be confident about, you know? But Star Magazine is trying to convince me that my fantasy wife is deeply flawed and racked with self-doubt. Blanchett, please.
Cate Blanchett has one of the most flawless faces in Hollywood, but Star has learned that the actress has become an insecure recluse!
?Cate is suffering a major midlife confidence crisis,? stated a close insider. ?She thinks her kids are growing up too quickly and it makes her feel old.?
The Oscar winner, 43, is the mom of three children ? Dashiell, 11, Roman, 8, and Ignatius, 4 ? and is fretting about her appearance.
?She feels like she?s always being watched and is very self-conscious,? admits the spy. ?She used to be so outgoing, but now she?s very shy. Her friends have tried to discuss it with her, but she just plays it off, claiming she has a case of real-world stage fright.?
[From Star Magazine, print edition]
Well, she was JUST at the premiere of The Hobbit last week (I?ve included a couple of photos below from the premiere), so it?s not like she?s holed up somewhere, getting boozy and obsessively applying eye cream. Or maybe that?s what she did at The Hobbit afterparty? Anyway, I think this is probably more about Cate?s lack of Hollywood drive, and I?m not saying that in a bad way at all. She just hasn?t made a lot of movies over the past few years, mainly because she and her husband were working in Australia and committed to stage work. But there is some good news? Cate has about a million projects lined up or already in postproduction. 2013 will The Year of The Blanchett!!! HUZZAH. Maybe then she?ll finally leave her husband and she and I can marry in Washington State? (Huzzah to you, Washington state!)
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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Looking to spend a little time Down Under, Cate Blanchett arrived at the Kingsford Smith International Airport in Sydney, Australia on Wednesday (November 14).
The Aussie born actress was stylishly dressed in black pants, a blouse and black jacket as she made her way through the busy airport with her luggage.
Ms. Blanchett was nominated for a British theater award for her role in the Sydney Theatre Company?s touring production of ?Gross Und Klein.? The ceremony will be held in London on November 25.
Fans can also see the 43-year-old star in her upcoming film ?The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.? The Peter Jackson directed flick hits theaters nationwide on December 14, 2012.
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| | Cate Blanchett in Proenza Schouler at the Elle event: stunning or bizarre? | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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These are photos from the ELLE magazine 19th Annual Women In Hollywood Celebration held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills last night. There are going to be several posts devoted to this event, because lots of lots of A-listers and B-listers showed up, and there was some? ?interesting? fashion on display. Let?s start with Cate Blanchett, shall we? Cate is beautiful. Cate is lovely. Cate is amazing. Cate is a role model. Cate can pull off looks that no one can pull off. Take this Proenza Schouler dress (with Roger Vivier shoes). As with most of Cate?s looks, if this was on another woman, I would be yelling. On Cate, it?s stunning and beautiful. Girl is 43 years old, and she looks younger than most of the women at this event.
Elle Fanning in Dolce & Gabbana Calvin Klein. It has straps! So I?m okay with it. It seems slightly too mature for a 14-year-old, but I think the cut of the skirt saves it for Elle ? if it had been tight throughout, I would have a problem. But she looks good!
Emma Stone in Valentino. DISASTER. From head to toe, I really dislike this Pepto-Bismol thing. I don?t have a major issue with young women wearing pink? but don?t do it if the dress is this particular shade of Pepto-pink. The sheer sleeves suck, and I really wish Emma would stone with the blonde. Sidenote: this looks like something Michelle Williams would wear, right?
Rachel Zoe in an unknown designer? it looks a bit like Calvin Klein. You know what? This would have been minimalist and lovely if the dress went to her knees, and it wasn?t full-length. It would have been cute. But this is just a boring sack on a boring skinny girl.
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| | Cate Blanchett in a geometric LBD in NYC: stunning, boring or awful? | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos of Cate Blanchett at the opening night party (on Saturday) for the production of Uncle Vanya. Cate starred in the play in Sydney, and she and her husband Andrew Upton have brought the production to the New York City Center as part of the 2012 Lincoln Center Festival. Upton adapted the Anton Chekhov play for the Sydney production. As for Cate in this geometric dress? I?m not so sure about it. I mean, obviously, ON CATE it?s fantastic. She could make a burlap sack look like a one-of-a-kind couture piece. But I don?t think this dress would look good on anyone else. As for her face? I will literally burst into tears if Cate ever Botoxed or tweaked. Her face is magnificent. Here?s a bit more about the production and some quotes from Cate:
With five Academy Award nominations and one Oscar win to her name, it’s no doubt that Cate Blanchett reigns as one of the world’s most gifted actresses. While she’s widely known for her work on film, the statuesque performer never strays far from the stage.
Blanchett and her husband, writer and director Andrew Upton, are currently in town with the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of “Uncle Vanya.” The pair, who has been serving as the company’s artistic heads since 2008, brings the Anton Chekhov classic to the city after a premiere down under in 2010. Blanchett stars as Yelena in her husband’s new adaptation of “Uncle Vanya,” which is currently part of the 2012 Lincoln Center Festival.
?For me the importance was not so much to play Yelena but to be part of the ensemble. That was my drive,? Blanchett says.
Blanchett and Upton’s journey with “Uncle Vanya” began to germinate after they experienced another Chekhov play at the Lincoln Center Festival in 2009: a production of “Ivanov,” directed by Hungarian artist Tams Ascher, who is now at the helm of “Uncle Vanya.?
?We approached him thinking he?ll never say yes because he doesn’t know us, he doesn’t know the company. And he said yes,? Blanchett says.
?He was very, very insistent that I pay very close attention to the actual structure of the Russian senses,? Upton says.
In recent years, Blanchett has been seen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on the New York stage playing Hedda Gabler and faded beauty Blanche DuBois in “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
?They?re not museum pieces and for me, that?s the challenge when you?re doing a classic. It?s through performing it you understand why these things live now,? Blanchett says.
And while the pair will officially step down from their post as Sydney Theatre Company heads in 2013, Blanchett says she hopes to eventually make her Broadway debut.
?I?d love to,? she says. ?Yeah, I?d absolutely love to.?
[From New York 1]
I can?t believe Cate has never actually been in a Broadway production. She?s performed in plays in London, Sydney, and Washington, DC? someone offer her a Broadway play!
I should also mention this ? after barely taking any film roles over the past few years, Cate has a slew of films coming out next year. She?s spent the last six months or so working back-to-back of various projects, including The Hobbit, a Woody Allen movie, that Knight of Cups film with Christian Bale, and something with Terrence Malick.
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| | Cate Blanchett: 'shaving off my hair is so liberating' I?m thinking about doing it again' | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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These are some new photos of Cate Blanchett arriving at LAX yesterday. Thoughts on her outfit? Only Cate could pull this off, and even then? just barely. I?m not big into plaids, and I really don?t ?get? why anyone would want to wear a plaid suit, but sure. On Cate, it works. It could also work on Tilda Swinton and Alan Cumming. And that?s about it.
Cate also covers the Summer issue of Gotham, but from what I can see from the interview, it?s all about her theater in Sydney. While I?m happy for Cate and her husband and their commitment to bringing quality theater to Australia, I find all of that stuff kind of tedious. Maybe I?m just sad because I miss seeing Cate in movies. In any case, you can read some excerpts of her Gotham piece here.
In addition to the Gotham article, Cate recently spoke to an Australian newspaper, and these quotes were much more interesting. I didn?t know she was just cast in Woody Allen?s new movie! That?s something. Also, she?s considering shaving her head again! She says, “Shaving off my hair is so liberating. I had to do it once for a film role, but I’ve done it periodically too. At school it was probably to rebel, but I cut my hair short a few years ago and I’m thinking about doing it again.” Have you ever seen Cate with a shaved head? She looks amazing.
Cate also says she hates working out: “I try to be healthy but I find exercise deathly dull. It tends to be easier to get outside in Australia, but the rain and floods have been atrocious in the past few years which limits things? Luckily, work keeps me fit and I’ve just been on stage with a show that’s very physical, which staves off the gym for a bit longer.” Eh? I believe her. I think she keeps active without being a gym rat. She seems like she has a really awesome metabolism too.
Oh, and she’s 43 years old. This is why she should be the poster girl for good skin care.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, Gotham.
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| | Cate Blanchett & Florence Welch: 2012 Met Gala Girls | | Added 13 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Showing off some serious style, Cate Blanchett and Florence Welch were both spotted at the 2012 Costume Institute Gala in New York City last night (May 7).
Ms. Blanchett arrived at the Metropolitan Museum of Art sporting a beautiful black feathered McQueen gown as she posed for a few pictures.
Meanwhile, Florence also turned heads in an Alexander McQueen creation, flashing a big smile to onlookers and shutterbugs.
Ms. Welch and her band Florence and the Machine will be hitting the road this September for a one-month tour.
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| | Cate Blanchett in black, feathered McQueen at the Met Gala: absolute perfection? | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Cate Blanchett to Beyonce: GIRL, THIS IS HOW YOU DO FEATHERS.
My girl Cate Blanchett is just perfection, isn?t she? Blanchett wore a Fall 2012 Alexander McQueen – which surprises me a little bit, because Cate was really close to the late Alexander McQueen, and if she was going to wear something McQueen, I would have thought it would be something vintage. But now we know – Cate supports Sarah Burton, the line?s new head designer. Cate was Burton?s first choice, apparently. They were each other?s dates.
Look, on another woman, this look would have been a total disaster. But I love this on Cate. As it always with Cate, it?s simply about how she wears it. She can pull off the strangest thing, and she never lets a dress wear her. Look at the detailing on this dress too – the whole thing is made of those rich-looking feathers. You seriously need to go back and look at Beyonce?s tacky monstrosity of a dress, then come back and look at this. Beyonce = Busted, Budget, Las Vegas Diva. La Blanchett = Beautiful, Perfect, Classic, Amazing Style Icon.
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| | Cate Blanchett spends the day sightseeing in Paris with her rowdy, adorable boys | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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These photos are a rarity. Cate Blanchett is in Paris with her husband and her three boys, and the paparazzi got lots of photos of the family while they were sightseeing yesterday. The photos are AMAZING! You know how I feel about Cate and how I find her to be an extremely inspirational woman, right? Part of my love for her is that she?s not constantly talking about motherhood for some kind of profit, angle or relatability. She?s an Oscar-winning movie star, she runs a theater, AND she?s the loving mother of three boys – she doesn?t bash us over the head with tales of motherhood and stuff.
I had to actually look up the boys? names and ages because I didn?t know them off-hand. The names? Roman Robert Upton, Ignatius Martin Upton, and Dashiell John Upton. Don?t ask me which is which. If you ask me, they all look like Cate. They seem to have all gotten her coloring and I can see a definite resemblance. The littlest one – Ignatius (I hope they call him Iggy or Nate) – is not happy to be spending a day in Paris. Iggy is all ?FML.? Iggy seems to be bored, tired and over it. I love the look on Cate?s face as she?s soothing him too. She has a great Mom-Face. It?s basically the look of, ?You think I haven?t seen a tantrum before? I have. Now behave.?
I also love the way the boys pose for their mom?s camera. This family is adorable. Those boys must be super-rowdy – I wonder if Cate ever feels outnumbered?
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| | Cate Blanchett appears on a magazine cover without retouching or Photoshop | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Cate Blanchett appears on the cover of a magazine called Intelligent Life. You can read the interview with Cate here – it?s a lovely piece, albeit a bit boring. It?s all about how she put her Hollywood career on hold to focus on her great love, the theater, and how hard she works running the Sydney Theater Company. But what is getting the most press for this cover story is the actual cover – an un-retouched photo of La Blanchett, wrinkles and pores and all. Isn?t it refreshing? Obviously, Cate is a 42-year-old woman who looks great for her age (or any age). But it?s just nice to see a woman in her 40s on the cover of magazine without her looking like a victim of excessive Photoshopping (or plastic surgery, since Cate eschews tweaking).
It could go without saying, but here’s confirmation that a host of Hollywood actresses – Demi Moore included – are cut from a different cloth to Cate Blanchett. In the same week that Moore’s new ad campaign for cosmetics brand Helena Rubinstein showed her looking closer to 20 years of age than her almost-50, Australian Blanchett has eschewed all post-production magic for her Intelligent Life cover.
The magazine’s editor, Tim de Lisle, explained the reasoning behind the un-retouched image in his editor’s letter: “When other magazines photograph actresses, they routinely end up running heavily Photoshopped images, with every last wrinkle expunged. Their skin is rendered so improbably smooth that, with the biggest stars, you wonder why the photographer didn’t just do a shoot with their waxwork.”
Oscar-winning Blanchett talks of her job as joint artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company and return to Europe to star in an Australian production of a German play. She posed for the cover quite simply, in her working clothes.
“She looks like what she is” continues de Lisle, “a woman of 42, spending her days in an office, her evenings on stage and the rest of her time looking after three young children.
‘We can’t be too self-righteous about it, because, like anyone else who puts her on a cover, we are benefiting from her beauty and distinction. But the shot is at least trying to reflect real life. It’s a curious sign of the times that this has become something to shout about.”
The result is most certainly ‘real’, with the odd line visible here and there, but Blanchett’s luminous complexion and enviably clear skin are certainly nothing to be sniffed at.
[Via The Telegraph]
I wish more magazines would do this. And I wish more actresses were up for it. I look through red carpet and candid photos all day, nearly every day, and let me tell you something, ladies: you almost always look younger and fresher when you?re photographed ?naturally?. Yes, in candids, we can see your wrinkles, the bags under your eyes, and maybe you feel naked without a face full of makeup – but I almost always think that you look younger.
Cover courtesy of Intelligent Life, photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Cate Blanchett & Andrew Upton: '2 One Another' Lovers | | Added 13 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Stepping out for a special event, Cate Blanchett was spotted at the opening night of the Sydney Dance Company?s ?2 One Another? production today (March 13).
Joined by hubby Andrew Upton, the ?Curious Case of Benjamin Button? babe looked to be in good spirits as she posed for the paparazzi outside the Sydney Theatre.
On the topic of Hollywood?s obsession with plastic surgery, Cate recently told press she?s not interested in going under the knife anytime soon.
?I?m not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn?t do. I just know what works for me. I?d be too frightened about what it means long-term. Looking at women in their 20s doing this stuff, in the end all you see is the work. It doesn?t fill me with admiration; it fills me with pity.?
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