Cate Blanchett Revisits Sensational Cannes Quote

Much ado about nothing.

In London for the U.K. premieres of Truth and Carol, Cate Blanchett sat down with The Guardian’s Xan Brooks for a delightful interview.

VarietyMay12CoverAmong the many topics touched on is a May 12 Variety cover story by the publication’s New York film editor Ramin Setoodeh. The good news for Setoodeh is that he got the Cannes words right; the bad news is that he, as many other journalists also would have, missed the wink-wink context of Blanchett’s purportedly salacious statement:

Following Carol’s Cannes press showing, Blanchett told a Variety reporter that she had personally had many relationships with women – which was technically true, in that she has friends and family and colleagues.

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