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Cate Blanchett Talks 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' and Immigration

"You hope to provoke a sense of empathy and change in audiences," says Cate Blanchett.
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I suppose that's what you get when you watch a film rather than read a novel: You see what the character doesn't," says two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett about her troubled yet comical character, Bernadette Fox.

In theaters this month, her, tells the story of an agoraphobic architect—an "absurd, hilarious and negative character"—who has been avoiding her problems for so long the only place left is Antarctica. After one too many lapses in judgment, she must now confront her fears.

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