Martha Stewart says Cate Blanchett is set to star as the lifestyle guru in an upcoming biopic.
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The film is rumored to be called Good Thing, a reference to Stewart's television catchphrase.
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Stewart previously was the subject of the 2020 Netflix documentary, Martha, which she criticized.
Cate Blanchetthas a knack for portraying real-life characters, everyone from the Queen of England (Elizabeth) and Katharine Hepburn (The Aviator) toBob Dylan(I’m Not There). Could her next role beMartha Stewart?
The lifestyle guru broke the casting news, seemingly inadvertently, on Tuesday evening as she walked the red carpet at the New York premiere ofBrunello: The Gracious Visionary, a documentary about Italian fashion designer Brunello Cucinelli.
Asked by aVarietyreporter if she would ever want someone to play her on the big screen, Stewart replied, “I hope so… I’ve been hearing rumors.”
Stewart then went on to spill the tea on what she knows so far. “I think there’s something in the works right now with… Cate Blanchett,” she teased, raising an approving eyebrow, “calledGood Thing.”
Varietysubsequently reported Blanchett’s casting and confirmed Janicza Bravo (2020’sZola) will direct the biopic. A representative for the actress did not immediately respond to EW's request for comment.
Good Thing— a reference to herMartha Stewart Livingcatchphrase, “It’s a good thing” — wouldn’t be the first time the entrepreneur’s life story was told onscreen. In 2024, she was the willing subject ofMartha, a Netflix documentary that she publiclycriticized.
"I love the first half of the documentary," she admitted to theNew York Times.
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The second half, however, focused too much on her 2003 indictment for insider trading, subsequent conviction, and five months in federal prison.
"The trial and the actual incarceration was less than two years out of an 83-year life,” Stewart said in 2024.
Other gripes were the exclusion of her “utterly fantastic” grandchildren and “my love of travel.” Stewart was particularly annoyed thatMartha’s director, R.J. Cutler, missed much of the “fun” aspects of her life.
“R.J. didn’t get any of that in the movie,” she told theNYT.
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But the worst part was the ending.
"Those last scenes with me looking like a lonely old lady walking hunched over in the garden? Boy, I told him to get rid of those," Stewart said of Cutler. "And he refused. Ihatethose last scenes. Hate them.”
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