Cate Blanchett might be headed for yet another Oscar nomination this year for her work in Todd Haynes’ Carol, an adaptation of a Patricia Highsmith story. In the LGBTQ community, the story was always beloved because it features a lesbian romance with a “happy ending,” as in, no one dies. While it doesn’t feel like Blue Jasmine all over again – which is when Cate had the Best Actress race wrapped up in the summer of 2013 – it does feel like Cate and Rooney Mara are probably going to be all over this awards season. So Cate’s presence on the latest issue of the New York Times’ T Magazine (their Style magazine) seems like a preview of coming attractions. You can read the T Magazine piece here – Cate sounds sort of pretentious here, but she’s also kind of funny, like she knows she comes across like a fart-sniffing artiste at times. Cate also explains why it’s the worst insult in the world to call her a “Hollywood actress.”

She once drove her kids to the edge of a volcano: “It was fantastic to be able to say, I’m deciding to do this. I’m deciding the level of safety for my children without someone telling me what to do.”

What she learned by running a theatre company: “I learned to not feel responsible to other people’s perceptions of who you are. I suppose I’ve gone through a process of maturation, in a way, because running the company is a public position.”

She hates being called a “Hollywood actress.” “That’s what they say about you when they want to insult you.”

Her advice to young actresses: So not go on social media, which “creates a culture of self-consciousness.”

Her love for novelist Patricia Highsmith: “She writes so fearlessly — and often ambiguously, but often ferociously — about human relationships and the human heart. I always have this terrible sense of foreboding, like a thrilling sense of foreboding, like something terrible is going to unfold. Like you never feel safe.”

Monologue sucks, collaboration is where it’s at: “That’s the dangerous side. You really don’t know where you’re going to go.”

[From The NYT]

While I like that Cate is still fighting the good fight about social media and stoking an air of mystery around oneself, at this point, it does feel like a lost cause. Most actors are on social media in some way and it’s fine. Personally, I think Cate would be awesome at Instagram, and if she was on Twitter, she could raise money and awareness for her offbeat art and side-projects. As for calling her a “Hollywood actress” as an insult… um? She has two Oscars. She IS a Hollywood actress. She’s also an Aussie actress, a stage actress, an art-house actress and everything else.

Here’s the new trailer for Carol… I love when Todd Haynes does ‘50s stuff. He has a really eye for period detail.

Covers courtesy of T Magazine.