I could pretty much watch Cate Blanchett interacting with a giant dragon for the rest of my life. These are pics of Cate and the cast of How To Train Your Dragon 2 on the red carpet at Cannes. Cate is the only one who really posed with the giant dragon on the red carpet. She stroked him, she leaned on him, she rubbed his chin, she gazed admiringly at him, she flirted with him. Look at these photos and tell me La Blanchett doesn’t need a giant dragon on every red carpet from here on out.

Cate wore Givenchy. I have to wonder about her loyalty to the House of Givenchy even now that Kim Kardashian is wearing Givenchy on the reg. Does Cate even know what a “Kim Kardashian” is? Or does Cate just wear whatever she wants and she doesn’t give an eff what anyone thinks? For the record, I like this… from the front. The back is not great (I loathe that illusion netting stuff). But the front part… those look like scales. Like, dragon scales. Hot.

While doing promotion in Cannes, Cate took a moment to bash the idea of women “having it all” and the journalists who perpetuate that line of questioning. Cate said, in part:

“It’s certainly a question that’s never asked of men. The question is only ever directed towards of women. ‘How do you balance? How do you have it all?’ When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That’s complete rubbish. We did discuss a lot about that particular issue because of course there is a judgment on how women parent. The film actually deals with it really beautifully and deeply and emotionally.”

And Ms Blanchett criticised the constant fixation with a woman’s age or beauty, at the expense of more pertinent issues.

“We live in a world where there is still not equal pay for equal work. I still don’t understand in 2014 why that is the case. I’m not just talking about the industry in which we work, it’s every industry. I’m an actress at a film festival. I can cope with the questions, I’m a big girl. But it does surprise me that we’re still asking those questions.”

[From The Independent]

Word.

Meanwhile, Cate’s costar America Ferrera was “pranked” by that douchebag Vitalii Sediuk, the Ukrainian “journalist” who runs onto red carpets and accosts (re: assaults) celebrities. He was the guy who wouldn’t let go of Bradley Cooper and he was the guy who got slapped by Will Smith. On this red carpet, Sediuk got on the ground, lifted up America’s dress and stuck his head under it. What I like about the photos is that Cate seems extremely protective of America – you can see Cate holding on tightly to America’s wrist, and it looks like Cate is comforting her.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.