Cate Blanchett

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Cate Blanchett Stars in Sparks' 'Girl Is Crying in Her Latte' Video (Rolling Stone)

Pop-rock stalwarts Sparks landed one of the greatest acting talents the world has ever seen, Cate Blanchett, for their new music video and got her to do what ...

If she wins, it’ll be her third Oscar, following a Best Actress win for Blue Jasmine and a Best Supporting Actress win for The Aviator. [Cate Blanchett](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/cate-blanchett/) in Paris at the César Awards last year, little knowing that a year later, one of the great actors of our time (and a splendid person!) would graciously consent to lending her bootie-shaking skills to the first video from our new album, The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte. The Girl is Crying in Her Latte marks Sparks’ 26th album, follows 2020’s A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip, and is set to arrive May 26 via Island Records. [Sparks](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/sparks/)’ next album), Blanchett appears in a striking yellow suit with red headphones covering her ears, oblivious to Sparks’ Ron and Russell Mael behind her. [Massive Attack’s 2016 clip for “The Spoils.” ](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/watch-cate-blanchetts-warped-face-in-new-massive-attack-video-103542/)The new video arrives as Blanchett gears up for the Academy Awards next week, where [she’s up for Best Actress](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/oscar-nominations-2023-1234666577/) for her performance in [Tár](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/tar-review-cate-blanchett-1234606544/). We will sleep well tonight knowing that forever we can say we co-starred in a film with Cate Blanchett!”

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Sparks on New Video With Cate Blanchett, 'Girl Is Crying in Her Latte' (Variety)

Sparks' Ron and Russell Mael talk about Cate Blanchett starring in their music video, 'The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte,' and their new album and tour.

“But we kind of start with a detail, like, with the song ‘The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte,’ just with a view of a coffee shop and a girl kind of by herself — the loneliness and the question about why she appears to be in the state that she’s in, and just a song around that. hit in the mid-70s] as a single, that was not a mainstream pop song, but the company had a vision that you can do music that’s really unique and special, but it can also work commercially. And so I went online and I saw that one painting of his of a girl sitting at a coffee shop, obviously in a different decade, but with just a cup of coffee and looking really forlorn. But we go at it with that kind of spirit that we’re kind of not resting on our past in any kind of way. And I think that that’s what they feel about the new album — that it’s not middle of the road pop music, but it’s accessible even as it’s coming from a unique perspective, in our own kind of universe that we’ve created. The Bowl has hometown meaning, in that “the first time we ever went there, our mother took us to see the Beatles,” Russell recalls. “It’s really crazy because this is not the typical career arc, that a band with 26 albums is now finding a new phase that’s so positive and bringing on a lot of new fans,” says Russell. The new album will be their first since “A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip” in early 2020 and will inevitably be greeted by many sets of eyes and ears that weren’t there for them prior to Sparks becoming a veritable one-band film festival two years ago. in ‘74” — a move that paid off with Sparks becoming bigger in England than they were at home — “we lived in an area that wasn’t far from the Royal Albert Hall and, for us for Americans as well as real Anglophiles, Royal Albert Hall signifies something. Possible, but probably not.) Then it was Russell’s idea just this past month to use that DM capability to enlist possibly the most lauded actor in the land at the moment to do something that, on the serious artiste scale, lands above Lydia Tar taking a commission to conduct the orchestra at a “Monster Hunter” cosplay event, but “not in the same stratosphere as conducting Gustav Mahler,” as Ron will cheerfully admit. [Ron Mael](https://variety.com/t/ron-mael/), “She adopted a character really in the video. When it came to her final participation in the video, “we didn’t even know she was gonna necessarily be dancing.

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Cate Blanchett Stars in Sparks 'Girl Is Crying in Her Latte' Video (Billboard)

On Friday (March 3), the band — which consists of sibling duo Ron and Russell Mael — released a video for “The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte,” in which actress ...

[Cate Blanchett](https://www.billboard.com/t/cate-blanchett/) in Paris at the César Awards last year,” the Mael brothers said in a press release, regarding their decision to cast Blanchett in their new video. [Sparks](https://www.billboard.com/artist/sparks/) is back with a brand-new single and music video to accompany it, featuring a very special movie-star guest. “Little knowing that a year later, one of the great actors of our time (and a splendid person!) would graciously consent to lending her bootie-shaking skills to the first video from our new album, ‘The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte.’ Dreams really do come true.

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Cate Blanchett Dances Wildly in Sparks' New Video: Watch (Pitchfork)

The Tár star gives David Byrne a run for his money in the video for “The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte”

The brothers will soon make their first foray into screenwriting with a musical epic called [X Crucior](https://pitchfork.com/news/new-sparks-penned-musical-in-the-works/). 1 in Heaven](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sparks-no-1-in-heaven/). [Sparks](https://pitchfork.com/artists/4152-sparks/) have enlisted Cate Blanchett for the video of the title track from their new album, [The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte](https://pitchfork.com/news/sparks-announce-first-album-for-island-records-in-47-years/).

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Watch: Cate Blanchett Dances Wildly in a Music Video Starring Role (W Magazine)

Stop whatever little TikTok dance you're trying to learn, because Cate Blanchett is here to show you some new steps. Somehow in between promoting and ...

And this isn’t even her first music video: she also [starred in a clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r31DFrFs5A) for British trip hop legends Massive Attack back in 2016. In 2021, they were involved in two films that hit the festival circuit. But the group has enjoyed both popularity in Europe and a rabid underground devotion that has helped sustain a long career. [Tár](https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/danielle-deadwyler-todd-field-tar-directors-issue-cover) and shooting numerous other upcoming projects, Blanchett found time to dust off her dancing shoes to star in the new video from cult art rock band Sparks. They would have been fine with her simply standing still in their video, but the actress decided to add her own steps. Blanchett, clad in a sunshine yellow suit and a pair of cherry red headphones, stands still during the song’s verses, but comes along with reckless abandon during the choruses.

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Watch Cate Blanchett star in new Sparks video, 'The Girl Is Crying In ... (Crack Magazine)

'The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte' is the first single from the brother duo's new album of the same name, due out on 26 May via Island Records.

Speaking on the collaboration with Blanchett, the sibling duo said, “We met Cate Blanchett in Paris at the César Awards last year, little knowing that a year later, one of the great actors of our time (and a splendid person!) would graciously consent to lending her bootie-shaking skills to the first video from our new album, The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte. Sparks’ new album marks their 26th studio album and is scheduled for release on 26 May via Island Records. The music video for the title track from their forthcoming release sees the Oscar-nominated actor star alongside the veteran pop duo.

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Cate Blanchett Stars in Sparks' New Video for 'The Girl Is Crying in ... (Our Culture Mag)

Sparks have unveiled the title track to their forthcoming album The Girl is Crying in Her Latte, alongside a video starring Cate Blanchett.

We will sleep well tonight knowing that forever we can say we co-starred in a film with Cate Blanchett!” [title track](https://sparks.lnk.to/TheGirlIsCrying) to their forthcoming album [The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte](https://sparks.lnk.to/album), alongside a music video starring Cate Blanchett. [Variety](https://variety.com/2023/music/news/sparks-cate-blanchett-music-video-album-girl-is-crying-in-her-latte-1235542099/): “We met Cate Blanchett in Paris at the César Awards last year, little knowing that a year later, one of the great actors of our time (and a splendid person!) would graciously consent to lending her bootie-shaking skills to the first video from our new album, ‘The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte.’ Dreams really do come true.

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Watch Cate Blanchett star in new Sparks video (Goldmine Magazine)

Sparks premiered an official music video for “The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte,” the first single and title track from their 26th studio album, ...

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