Cate Blanchett at the “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” photocall during the 2nd Rome Film Festival, 10/19

Could definitely do without the shoes.
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Could definitely do without the shoes.

CATE BLANCHETT has likened BOB DYLAN to an unidentified flying object - because the legendary rocker is so elusive. The Australian actress, who appears as the Like A Rolling Stone singer in new movie I’m Not There, has never met Dylan. Blanchett tells MTV, “He’s a bit like a U.F.O. A lot of people have sightings.” But at least, she’d know Dylan - if she was sitting next to him, unlike her brother-in-law, who once thought the folk-rock icon was a gardener. She adds, “My brother-in-law was at a party in Los Angeles in the ’80s and was having a smoke with some guy, talking about horticulture, and after he left someone said, `How do you know Bob?’ And he said, `I thought he was the gardener!’”

OMG look at her shoes!!!

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Here is Cate at the premiere of her new movie “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” last night.
I don’t think I’m looking forward to any other movie - more than I’m looking forward to this movie. I get chills when I watch the preview - and I loved the first Elizabeth. They should just give Cate the Oscar now.

George Lucas and Steven Spielberg are being their typically secretive selves when it comes to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but — thankfully for fans of the series and MTV Movies — the movie’s cast has slightly looser lips.
According to a post published yesterday at MTV Movies, Cate Blanchett let slip with what might have been some telling details during a recent interview with the network. No, she doesn’t have any idea what that title means (”I went, ‘Oh, that’s what it’s called, is it?’”). But when it comes to rampant speculation regarding whether or not her character is Indy’s latest love interest, she’s understandably more certain.
During her interview, Blanchett shared memories of being a 12-year-old girl and watching Harrison Ford kiss Karen Allen during Raiders of the Lost Ark:
“I can remember that was a big part for me…I thought, ‘Ooh, gosh. When I grow up I’d like to marry a man like him, even if he does fall asleep after I kiss him.’”
The natural follow-up question, of course, is whether Blanchett will have the chance to lock lips with Ford in the new movie — and MTV didn’t fall down on the job:
So we asked straight away: Did she get her childhood wish? Does she finally get to kiss Indiana Jones? “[Not] unless they’ve changed the script pages,” she sighed. “I don’t think so.”
So, for those keeping track at home, signs currently point to Blanchett playing a villain in Indy 4 — MTV describes her rumored character as “a nefarious foe, possibly in league with the Russians.” Not that it matters what just about anyone in the cast plays, really; it’s gonna take a flaming moat around the theater to keep us (and, we imagine, most of you) away on opening day.




On the prettiest beach in Malibu, sprawled atop a sand dune built especially for her W photo shoot, Cate Blanchett is doing that thing she’s known for: shape-shifting in front of the camera. One minute she’s Deborah Kerr in From Here to Eternity; the next she’s Helena Christensen from that steamy Chris Isaak video. Blink and Bo Derek from 10 might emerge, sans the cornrows, of course. But after six hours of posing, when she steps down from her trailer as none other than herself—a chic wisp in an embroidered black cotton dress and a pair of mod, bauble-bedecked patent-leather sandals—the 38-year-old actress insists that all that morphing was entirely unintentional. “I was compleeeetely zoning out,” she says, her voice a low purr, her accent somewhere between England and Oz. “I mean, I was practically asleep for a while there. God, it was soooo relaxing.”
Basking on the beach for an afternoon, tasked with nothing more than looking pretty, is not something Blanchett gets to do very often, so one has to forgive her for taking peace where she can find it. The woman keeps herself quite busy. In the coming months, for example, she’ll have two films in theaters; finish work on two more; direct a play in Sydney; headline a performance-art festival in New York; and take over, along with her husband, Andrew Upton, the running of the biggest theater company in Australia. She has two sons under six. She’s done 33 films in just over a decade.
The mile-long résumé, to hear Blanchett tell it, is largely a result of her inability to turn down a challenge. “I used to constantly play that Truth, Dare, Kiss or Promise game as a child,” she says, now in a car (a chauffeur-driven Toyota Prius, per her request) crawling along the Pacific Coast Highway to a sushi place in Beverly Hills. “I guess I’ve never outgrown it. If somebody challenges me to do something, I say okay. I say okay very quickly.”
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