Cate blanchett joins pal robert de niro at bfi london film festival

By ISABELLA NIKOLIC FOR MAILONLINE Published: 16:27 EDT, 11 October 2019 | Updated: 17:09 EDT, 11 October 2019 Cate Blanchett was spotted making a surprise appearance at an interview with

Robert De Niro about his new role in the upcoming film The Irishman.  The 50-year-old unexpectedly showed up to support her fellow actor De Niro, 76, as he discussed his new role in director

Martin Scorsese's latest gangster film during the Screen Talk at the BFI London Film Festival.  Speaking at the British Film Institute to a sold-out audience on Friday, the Godfather

actor reflected over his career which has spanned 50 years.  Robert also went on to mention Cate, alongside Christian Bale and Bradley Cooper, as he gave examples of contemporary actors that

he greatly admires.  He also reasserted his views on Donald Trump and according to Screen Daily he said: 'Everything has been turned upside-down because of Trump, because he’s such a

dirty player that it’s amazing to me that he has just upended it and is getting away with it.  'He won’t get away with it forever.' Meanwhile, Cate oozed sophistication as she

arrived in a tweed coat paired with a demure black Gucci handbag.  Cate let her shoulder-length blonde locks loose and finished off her look with a pair of navy blue glasses as she arrived

at the British Film Institute.   De Niro looked dapper in his laid back ensemble of black chinos with a navy blue polo shirt.  He finished off his look with a simple pair of black loafers

and a relaxed zip-up cardigan.  The Irishman premiered on September 27 at the New York Film Festival, finally raising the curtain on the director's long-awaited, 209-minute crime-drama

opus. Though the film's genre and cast, including Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci, has led some to expect a gangster thriller in the mould of GoodFellas or Casino, The Irishman

is a more reflective, less flashy rumination on morality, violence and American power. Through de-aging visual effects, the performances by De Niro, Pesci and Pacino span decades of their

characters' lives. It stars De Niro as Sheeran, a mafia hitman and high-ranking Teamster official. Shortly before his death, the real Sheeran confessed to killing Jimmy Hoffa (played

here by Pacino) — a confession that remains in dispute, with Hoffa's disappearance officially unsolved.  Scorsese called his film 'an interesting hybrid' as both something

made for theatres and for watching at home. 'All of us now are in an extraordinary time of change,' Scorsese said. 'But when it comes down to it, I felt - Bob (De Niro) felt -

the picture had to be made for ourselves.' Cate BlanchettLondon