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Carol: 2? Blanchett and Mara Set Photos Captivate Lesbian Fans
Carol: 2? Blanchett and Mara Set Photos Captivate Lesbian Fans
Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara have reunited on the set of Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley, and queer women can't believe it's not a Carol sequel.
Oscar-winner Guillermo del Tormo's Nightmare Alleyis currently shooting. And while the film boasts a heavy-hitting cast that includes Bradley Cooper, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, queer women on social media are losing it over shots from the set of a reunion of Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara that are uncannily close in tone and energy to what fans are calling Carol: 2.
The film from the Shape of Water director tells the story of a dangerously manipulative carny (Cooper) who beds his psychiatrist (Blanchett), who allegedly has more to hide than he does. Mara, Dafoe, and Ron Perlman are all part of the carnival, while Richard Jenkins plays a wealthy industrialist.
Carol, Todd Haynes's adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1952 novel The Price of Salt, starred Blanchett and Mara as women who fall in love in a time when it was all kept very close to the vest. Despite the tenor of the era, Carol does feature a hopeful ending that implies a future together for Carol and Therese. Fans of the film have latched onto the photos of Blanchett and Mara in Nightmare Alley as if they were signs of Carol and Therese's ongoing life together and are calling it Carol: 2. And the tweets are signs that there's definitely interest in a sequel to Carol.
Here are some of the reactions.
\u201cCarol 2 starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. A MF CONCEPT\u201d— Rina (@Rina) 1580492345
\u201cCATE BLANCHETT AND ROONEY MARA ARE MAKING ANOTHER MOVIE THATS THE BIGGEST GIFT 2020 CAN GIVE US\u201d— panchhi \ud83e\udd8b (@panchhi \ud83e\udd8b) 1580492987
\u201chow tf do you get cate blanchett and rooney mara looking like this under the fucking snow AND IT\u2019S NOT FOR CAROL PART TWO\u201d— maxy \u200e\u29d7 (@maxy \u200e\u29d7) 1580493457
\u201cThis is BTS from "Nightmare Alley" including Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett styled in similar clothes like in "Carol" and IM ABSOLUTELY LOSING MY MIND!\n\nThank you.\u201d— Zofia Wijaszka (@Zofia Wijaszka) 1580493006
\u201cOhmygaaad whaat. I'm dead. You tell me this isn't Carol Aird. Cate Blanchett snapped!\u201d— \u2133\u00e1ri (@\u2133\u00e1ri) 1580491924
\u201cI\u2019m screaming!!! \nCate Blanchett Rooney Mara #Carol\u201d— milss (@milss) 1580497630
\u201cCate Blanchett and Rooney Mara on set of Carol 2...\u201d— Val (@Val) 1580493719
\u201cAlso known as \u201cCarol, The Sequel aka Harold, They\u2019re Lesbians\u201d\u201d— Marcie Bianco (@Marcie Bianco) 1580498604
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