Blanchett, Redford take on newsroom drama

The 46-year-old actress was joined by her co-stars John Benjamin Hickey, Dennis Quaid, Robert Redford, Dermot Mulroney, as well as Orange Is The New Black’s Alysia Reiner and host Andy Cohen, who both came out to show their support. Though he penned a spec script in 2007, Truth didn’t really get off the ground until years later when the script reached Cate Blanchett the morning after winning her second Oscar (Blue Jasmine).

“But Aaron Sorkin and I are talking about…yeah, we don’t know what form it’s gonna be in”, she added.

Vanderbilt has been commended for the keenly focused intelligence and low-boil intensity of directorial de but, with Cate Blanchett, once again, garnering unanimous critical praise for her performance.

Blanchett called working with Redford “extraordinary” and said she felt a “very particular responsibility” in playing Mapes, who was sacked after the network, CBS, conducted an independent investigation and ultimately retracted and apologized for the report.

Blanchett plays producer CBS producer Mary Mapes in the docu-drama “Truth”.

While Blanchett could conceivably split her own vote and get snubbed – an actor can only be nominated for one film in any category under longtime academy rules – my money’s on the great Cate being nominated for her tour de force in Todd Haynes’ “Carol, ” which has its New York premiere on Friday night at the New York Film Festival, ahead of its November. 20 theatrical debut. “Even though it feels like recent history, 2004…the media landscape, the political landscape has changed entirely”, Blanchett says. “It was at the beginning of the whole kind of hateful blogosphere”.

We could soon see Blanchett in a very different role.

“Truth” will have a selected release in the United States on October 16.