Cate Blanchett Set to Play Donald Trump's Sister in James Gray's ARMAGEDDON TIME
Academy Award winning actress Cate Blanchett, known for her roles in Aviator, Blue Jasmine, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, is taking on another real-life character role in director James Gray’s upcoming film, Armageddon Time. Blanchett will play Donald Trump’s sister in a small role that will include a speech that Gray describes as a “real scene-stealer.”
Blanchett is joined in the film by a star-studded ensemble that includes Robert De Niro, Oscar Isaac, Donald Sutherland, and Anne Hathaway.
Armageddon Time is an autobiographical drama inspired by Gray’s coming-of-age as a child while attending the Kew-Forest School in Queens, New York. Donald Trump is an alumnus of the school in real life, and the former U.S. president’s sister visited the school when Gray was a student to give a speech to the student body.
Gray spoke to Collider about the project last year, saying:
“It’s very simply kind of a memoir about when I was twelve and in the fall of 1980 in New York about my best friend and my relationship with him and when I moved from public school to private school. And how my relationship with him was destroyed in the process. So it’s a family story, but in a way, it’s kind of a love story between myself and my good friend, who I never saw again after I changed schools. And the idea is to make a film about how class and racism divides us, because he was Black, my friend.”
This sounds like a great cast and story, and I’m intrigued by it for sure. Armageddon Time is currently in pre-production.
via: Indiewire