Everything We Know About The New Cate Blanchett Thriller, Disclaimer
Oscar winner Cate Blanchett has starred in films like the critically acclaimed Tár and can currently be seen in action-comedy Borderlands, but she’s also set to appear on the small screen this year in a new drama from Apple TV+.
Disclaimer is a psychological thriller miniseries that’s directed by Roma and Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón, and will star Blanchett as a respected journalist who finds that someone has turned her into the main character in a mysterious novel, a revelation that threatens to upend her life. Here’s all you need to know:
What is Disclaimer about?
Catherine Ravenscroft (played by Blanchett) is a respected and acclaimed journalist, who mostly works in documentaries. She’s gotten a reputation for uncovering harsh truths and the darker side of people’s lives, cementing her as a veteran journalist. Out of the blue, she finds on her bedside table a mysterious package containing a novel, and intrigued to figure out why she’s been sent it, begins to read. It’s not long before she realises that her life has been used for the main character in the novel, and having spent her career revealing the hidden misdeeds of others, is now having her most intimate secrets spilt out on the page.
Of course, this revelation alarms her, since someone seems to know information that no one else should, and she races to find out who exactly authored the mysterious book and what if anything they want with her. But now she faces a reckoning with all that she’s done and achieved in life, and must face up to her past as she moves to find the writer.
Who else stars and when does it release?
In addition to Blanchett, Disclaimer is also set to star Sacha Baron Cohen (The Trial of the Chicago 7) as Catherine’s husband Robert, whose relationship with her could be permanently wrecked by this turn of events and the secrets of her past. Meanwhile, actor Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog) will portray their son, also caught up in the fallout, and Kevin Kline (The Good House), Louis Partridge (Pistol), Lesley Manville (The Crown) and Hoyeon Jung (Squid Game) also star. It will release on Apple TV+ later this year on 11th October.