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Cate Blanchett Says ‘Carol’ Was ‘So Hard to Get Funded’ Because ‘No One Wanted to See’ a Film With ‘Two Women Falling in Love’
Cate Blanchett said Todd Haynes' 2015 lesbian drama 'Carol' struggled to get funding because 'no one wanted to see ... two women falling in love.'
Blanchett, who is at TIFF supporting Alfonso Cuarón’s Apple TV+ show “Disclaimer” and Guy Maddin’s film “Rumours,” was welcomed at the Royal Alexandra Theatre with a standing ovation, after fans lined up early to acquire rush tickets to the event. While she said there has been “no conflict” with her longtime collaborator Todd Haynes, Blanchett recalled a moment on the set of “Carol” in which the director struggled to find the lighting in a particular scene, so the actors allowed him the space to clear his head while they searched for alternate solutions. Blanchett, whose credits include “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” to “Thor: Ragnarok” to “Borderlands,” added that large-scale popcorn flicks “make space for people to remind themselves how great it is to go to the cinema.”
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