Cate Blanchett's boozy admission on Carol set while filming with Sarah Paulson

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She was nominated for an Oscar for her 2015 role in Carol – but Cate Blanchett has revealed that in one scene, she wasn’t actually acting at all.

Cate got sloshed on martinis in a boozy bar scene – and admits she has a hole in her memory from the shoot. With her character required to sink martinis with co-star Sarah Paulson, the pair were introduced to a new Hollywood term by the film’s art department. “A wonderful props guy said: ‘Do you want to go hot?’” recalls Cate. “If somebody says to you: ‘Do you want to go hot?’ You’ve got to say: ‘Yes.

Absolutely!’ “So we went ‘hot’. What we learnt was the alcohol would be real.” Cate – chatting to co-star Sarah during W magazine’s livestream – joked how she mispronounces a name during the scene,