Did you these facts about this lesbian icon?
BY CAMILLE BAVERA, IMAGE BY DREAMSTIME
Cate Blanchett has had an impressive career as an actor. She’s a certified chameleon and lesbian icon. We’re well into Carol season, so there’s a high chance you’ve already re-watched her dazzle in the sapphic Christmas film 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 company
Dirty Films is an entertainment provider and production company that was co-founded by Cate and Andrew Upton.
Would you listen 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.
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.
She’s a bit of a lesbian icon
While Cate is not in fact a lesbian (despite playing them so well), she’s a certified lesbian icon. Both for her portrayals of sapphics in Carol, as the titular character and Lydia Tár in Tár. She’s also many a sapphic’s Roman Empire and we are all obsessed with her cheekbones.
She recently launched a new programme to help female, trans and non-binary filmmakers
In an interview with People she told the publication that she knew she had to do something after learning she was the only woman on set. “I was not only the only woman in front of the camera, I was the only woman on set. My shoulders sank. I wasn’t angry, I was disappointed.”
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