On the prettiest beach in Malibu, sprawled atop a sand dune built especially for her W photo shoot, Cate Blanchett is doing that thing she's known for: shape-shifting in front of the camera. One minute she's Deborah Kerr in From Here to Eternity; the next she's Helena Christensen from that steamy Chris Isaak video. Blink and Bo Derek from 10 might emerge, sans the cornrows, of course. But after six hours of posing, when she steps down from her trailer as none other than herself—a chic wisp in an embroidered black cotton dress and a pair of mod, bauble-bedecked patent-leather sandals—the 38-year-old actress insists that all that morphing was entirely unintentional. "I was compleeeetely zoning out," she says, her voice a low purr, her accent somewhere between England and Oz. "I mean, I was practically asleep for a while there. God, it was soooo relaxing."
Read the rest of the article at www.style.com
Simply beautiful!