Cate Blanchett Intelligent Life Issue 20

**Honey** · March 21st, 2012, 06:34 PM

When other magazines photograph actresses, they routinely end up running heavily Photoshopped images, with every last wrinkle expunged. Their skin is rendered so improbably smooth that, with the biggest stars, you wonder why the photographer didn’t just do a shoot with their waxwork.

It’s a supreme example of having it both ways. Publishers want a recognisable person on the cover, with a real career; but they also want an empty vessel—for clothes and jewellery and make-up, which often seem to be supplied by the advertisers with the most muscle. (One cover shoot we spotted this week even had a credit for a fragrance. You would hope that the readers smelt a rat.) The actresses end up playing two conflicting roles: both modern women and throwbacks, both something to aspire to and something to negate.

—Tim de Lisle is editor of Intelligent Life

Cate Blanchett 'Intelligent Life' Cover Is Pleasantly Un-Photoshopped (PHOTO)

**fgg** · March 21st, 2012, 06:36 PM

wow, not flattering.

**rollo** · March 21st, 2012, 06:58 PM

But she looks normal at least.

**politesse** · March 21st, 2012, 07:18 PM

I think she looks beautiful.

**sputnik** · March 21st, 2012, 09:58 PM

i think she looks beautiful too.

**KrisNine** · March 21st, 2012, 10:44 PM

Me, three. I think she looks better without the crazy photoshopping. She looks good.

**rockchick** · March 21st, 2012, 10:50 PM

I love her and think she looks great.

**SillyME54** · March 22nd, 2012, 01:50 AM

I thinks she looks beautiful too. She looks very real unlike all those other ridiculously fake photoshopped mag covers. And even with her wrinkles she looks very refreshing.