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Cate Blanchett defends unbent actors playing LGBT roles
Cate Blanchett has defended unbent actors playing male lover roles in movie and TV.
Hollywood has been criticised for giving LGBT roles to direct actors and earlier this year Scarlett Johansson pulled out of playing a trans character accompanying a backlash.
Blanchett played a lesbian in 2015's Carol.
She said: "I will battle to the death for the right to suspend disbelief and play roles beyond my experience."
The Australian actress disagrees with the notion that a musician only really knows a character if they have mutual experiences.
"Reality television and all that that entails had an extraordinary impact, a profound impact on the way we view the creation of character," she said during a Q&A at the Rome Production Festival.
"I ponder it provides a lot of opportunity, but the downside of it is that we now, particularly in America, we expect and only expect people to make a profound connection to a character when it's close to their experience."
When Scarlett Johansson was announced as the manage actor in a film about 1970s Pittsbu
Did you these facts about this lesbian icon?
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Cate Blanchett has had an impressive career as an actor. She’s a certified chameleon and lesbian star. We’re well into Carol season, so there’s a high chance you’ve already re-watched her dazzle in the sapphic Christmas production at least once this holi-gay. There’s no better time to sit back and get ready to learn more about the iconic star. Here are five facts to get you started.
She co-founded a production firm
Dirty Films is an show provider and production company that was co-founded by Cate and Andrew Upton.
Would you heed to Cate read your shopping list?
Cate has a very mesmerising voice which has caused many a DIVA to swoon. In addition to appearing onscreen, the actor has used her vocal talents to narrate audiobooks such as Virginia Woolf’s The Lighthouse.
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Cate made history as the first actor to win an Academy Award for portraying another Academy Award-winning actor
This was of course for her depiction of Katherine Hepburn in Aviator.
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She’s a bit of a lesbian icon
While Cate is not in fac
Cate Blanchett reveals she had 'many' homosexual woman relationships
Happily-married Oscar-winning Australian actor Cate Blanchett has revealed she had "many" past relationships with women in an interview with an American magazine.
The Australian, 45, made the comment while promoting her latest film Carol, in which she plays a bi-curious woman in 1950s New York.
When asked if it was her first rotate as a woman loving woman, Blanchett asked: "On film -- or in real life?"
Pressed by Variety magazine for details about whether she had past relationships with women, she said: "Yes. Many times," without elaborating.
Blanchett has been married to screenwriter husband Andrew Upton for 18 years. They three have sons -- Ignatius, 6, Roman, 10, and Dashiell, 13 -- and in March adopted a baby daughter.
In the film, which is due to premiere at Cannes this month, Fresh Yorker Carol Aird (Blanchett) embarks on a love affair with a juvenile department store clerk Therese Belivet, played by Rooney Mara.
While giving no details about her past romances, Blanchett said in the interview that she was someone who treasured her privacy and never uses Twitter or Googles herself.
She has also never watched herself in movies
Sorry, Cate Blanchett, Gays Really Do Need to Shout Their Sexuality From the Rafters
I admit, in May, when a Variety cover story suggested that the gorgeous and brilliant actress Cate Blanchett might harbor same-sex desires, I was as aflame as any other red-blooded American dyke.
Imagine my disappointment when, at the Cannes Film Festival a few days later, she claimed that the reporter had misrepresented their conversation. In fact, she’s not had sexual relations with women. That discovery wasn’t as surprising, though, as the contempt she seemed to express toward gays who, in her view, make their sexualities too public and core to their identities.
Discussing Carol, her new film based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Price of Salt, which chronicles a adore affair between two women in 1950s New York City, Blanchett told the press at Cannes that Carol’s “sexuality is a private affair,” adding with perceptible disdain: “What happens these days is if you are homosexual, you have to talk about it constantly; it has to be the only thing; you have to put it before your work, before any other aspect of your personality.” Perhaps Blanchett was decrying conservative culture’