Cate Blanchett must have had so much fun putting together her wardrobe for this past week of promotional work, because she has been killing it. I covered some of her looks on Friday – go here to see. These photos are from the Friday night screening of Carol in NYC. Cate decided to mix it up in an interesting way with this Aouadi Paris Fall 2015 dress. She doesn’t really have those tattoos and she did not get tattoos painted onto her body. That’s a sheer netting thing with “tattoos” built in. Thoughts? I like it because it’s different and because it’s interesting to look at. If she had fake tattoos painted on, I wouldn’t have liked it at much. As for Rooney Mara, she wore Chanel. I would have liked her look more if she had done a different hairstyle.

Everyone’s talking about how Cate has delivered two amazing projects this year, Truth and Carol. There’s some talk that she could get Oscar nominations for both, but I’m almost positive that is impossible with the Oscar rules – an actor cannot be nominated two times in the same category in one year (it is possible to get nominated for Supporting and Lead in the same year though). So if Cate had to choose, for which role would she want to get nominated?

For Truth, Cate and Robert Redford sat down with The Daily Beast to discuss the film, America, gun control and much more. You can read the full piece here. Here are some assorted quotes from Cate:

Cate on America & guns: “Doesn’t it have to do with the relationship this country has with its Founding Fathers and its Constitution? We’re trying to get changes to our Constitution to finally recognize indigenous Australians who were classified until 1969 as part of “flora and fauna.” We want to finally get constitutional recognition of them and it’s very difficult for a government to open the door to change the Constitution. But it seems profoundly impossible for this country to reassess that amendment that deals with the right to bear arms.”

Schoolkids & guns: “It’s also analyzing just how many kids in schools in America are on medication and the FDA and the amount of corn syrup in food, and what that does. There’s a whole intersection of issues apart from guns themselves. Certainly I know my children get nervous about the idea of coming here and going into school, but yeah, it’s an issue.”

On George W. Bush’s legacy: “I’ll never forget that moment with the second inauguration [of Bush] where, for the first time in American history, the cavalcade up to the White House was completely closed black cars. It was one of the most sinister things I’ve ever seen in my life.”

[From The Daily Beast]

Cate in particular has been doing a pretty good job of not stepping into some massive political controversy while promoting Truth. She and Redford have been getting so many political questions, and Redford answers most of them. He’s old, he doesn’t give a sh-t, and he’s a well-known lefty in political circles, so his statements aren’t that controversial. Cate is asked point-blank if she believes that the documents about Bush’s National Guard service were faked or real and she basically doesn’t say anything other than “there had long been a question mark over Bush’s service.” You know what would be interesting? If some big media outlets went through the information again now that Bush is out of office. I think a lot of people would still really like to know WTF happened when Bush was supposed to be serving in the National Guard.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.