From playing an incredibly layered, world-renowned conductor in TÁR to an intergalactic bounty hunter in new film Borderlands, two-time Oscar-winning Australian actress Cate Blanchett really can do it all. And on the promotional trail for the latter—a movie based on a bestselling video game of the same name and which follows a ragtag team of misfits on a mission to save a missing girl—Blanchett cements her moonlight role as a style chameleon.
While we usually see the 55-year-old acteur walking the world’s most glamorous red carpets in Louis Vuitton, Blanchett took a break from the French Maison on August 5, rocking up to an interview with Good Morning America in a blue-on-blue set from Brandon Maxwell’s Resort 2025 collection. Her jacket—which featured four pockets and gold buttons—was cinched in at the waist with a large, high prowess Brandon Maxwell heart-shaped belt. She paired the two with what looked like a pair of mid-wash denim pants. It’s a look a lot of Americans would call the “Canadian Tuxedo” but in actual fact, the jacket and pants were made from velvet and were designed to only look like denim. Some burgundy crocodile pumps completed the look. We’re obsessed!
“I also played an elf! And Bob Dylan!” joked Blanchett on Good Morning America. “So, when [software company] Gearbox said they were doing this, I thought, ‘well I haven’t done that before.’ I didn’t know the game at all, so it was a deep dove for me. Then I heard Jamie Lee Cutis was going to do it, I would have done anything!”
“It’s a story from the first and second parts of this game called Borderlines which billions of people play,” she continued. “I play a bounty hunter…and she’s got huge mummy issues and she goes back to her birth planet to help find the key to everything.”
It definitely sounds interesting! Blanchett was later spotted at JFK airport is the most stylish of plane outfits.
Borderlands is set to release into Australian cinemas on August 8.
