‘Disclaimer’: Why Cate Blanchett Wanted to Wear Something Red for Every Scene

variety.com:

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Cate Blanchett knew exactly what look she wanted for her character Catherine Ravenscroft in the limited Apple TV+ series “Disclaimer.” Despite playing a wealthy, award-winning journalist, she didn’t want to look like one, so she’d send costume designer Jany Temime pictures of boho society women as examples.

Temime wanted to make sure Catherine’s look wasn’t just feminine, but sexy, too. “If I had dressed her in trousers or big sweaters or shirts, you never would believe the story,” Temime says.

Blanchett also suggested a touch of red in everything she wore — whether it was a scarf or a ring, something not always obvious to the audience, but to Catherine, an important color.

In “Disclaimer,” Catherine’s life is upended by the publication of the novel “The Perfect Stranger,” a very lightly fictionalized account of an incident that actually happened to Catherine 20 years earlier at an Italian beach resort.