Cate Blanchett shared a sweet moment with her daughter Edith, nine, before taking to the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday.
The actress, a regular at the annual event, attended the star-studded opening premiere for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, but not before taking in the festivities with her little girl.
Cate and Edith were spotted watching the red carpet from a balcony, snuggling up as they enjoyed the spectacular view.
Later, Cate headed down the premiere, looking stunning in an Armani Privé champagne gown. accesorised with a dramatic Louis Vuitton necklace designed from repurposed pearls and diamonds.
Cate Blanchett shared a sweet moment with her daughter Edith, nine, before taking to the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday
Cate shares four children with her husband Andrew Upton – sons Dashiell, 22, Roman, 20, and Ignatius, 16 and daughter Edith.
She has previously admitted that her kids are ‘disinterested’ in her fame, ‘in the best possible, healthiest way.’
Cate and her husband adopted Edith in 2015, with the actress’ speaking at the time about her sons’ close bond with their little sister, saying that she finds it ‘extraordinary.’
‘I find it extraordinary, glimpsing them becoming a unit. And a very welcoming unit,’ she told the Sydney Morning Herald in 2015. ‘I’m very proud of them.’
She has also explained how she and Andrew first discussed the possibility of adoption two decades ago.
‘We actually began the conversation a very long time ago, after our first son was born and he’s about to turn 14,’ she told Women in the World’s Tina Brown shortly after adopting Edith in 2015.
‘And then we just had two other children and it sort of dropped off the radar.’
Cate also emphasised that the decision to adopt Edith was not based on a desire to have a girl after having three sons, explaining:
‘I felt we had space, enough emotional room in our hearts and were privileged enough to have the capacity to have another child, so it wasn’t about biology.
The actress, a regular at the annual festival, attended the star-studded opening premiere for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, but not before taking in the festivities with her little girl
Cate and Edith were spotted watching the red carpet from a balcony, snuggling up as they enjoyed the spectacular view
Later, Cate headed down the premiere, looking stunning in an Armani Privé champagne gown
She accesorised with a dramatic Louis Vuitton necklace designed from repurposed pearls and diamonds
The actress is back in Venicethis year to promote her starring role in Alfonso Cuaron’s new Apple TV+ limited series Disclaimer, which premieres at the festival on Thursday
‘It wasn’t about a desire to have a girl, the gender of the children was never particularly important to me,’ she added. ‘It’s more about their spirits.’
The actress is back at the Venice Film Festival this year to promote her starring role in Alfonso Cuaron’s new Apple TV+ limited series Disclaimer.
The show, scheduled to premiere at the festival on Thuesday ‘follows Catherine Ravenscroft, a television documentary journalist whose work has been built on revealing the transgressions of long-respected institutions.’
She stars alongside Sacha Baron Cohen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Kevin Kline, and Lesley Manville.
