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‘Was I cast because you couldn’t get anyone else?’ Cate Blanchett discusses Rumours

Blanchett and director Guy Maddin attempt to explain their supremely odd new film about the G7

Jasper Rees
Cate Blanchett slips into the role of German chancellor Hilda Ortmann as comfortably as all those other powerful women she has portrayed © Bleecker street media / landmark media / alamy stock photo
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