Carol star Cate Blanchett has attended the 2026 Cannes Film Festival to reveal her casting in Brady Corbet‘s upcoming film The Origin of the World. Michael Fassbender and Selena Gomez have already been confirmed to also be featuring in The Brutalist director’s project, set to narrate a time period of 150 years, focusing primarily on the 1970s.
There are rumours that The Origin of the World will take on an ensemble cast, with the filmmaker stating it will present on the “American mysticism and the history of the occult in America,” as well as charting “the migration of the cultist belief systems and structures.”
Occult historian Mitch Horowitz has reportedly helped Corbet out with the script.
Blanchett has recently appeared in the Steven Soderbergh spy thriller Black Bag, alongside Fassenbender, as well as Jim Jarmusch’s anthology comedy-drama Father Mother Sister Brother. She is also set to reprise her role as Valka in the live-action remake of DreamWorks ‘ How to Train Your Dragon II, having provided the voice acting in the original 2014 animated sequel, in addition to the sci-fi comedy Alpha Gang by filmmaker David Zellner and Nathan Zellner.
Meanwhile, Fassenbender has recently been credited in the South Korean cosmic horror film Hope, due for a Cannes premiere, by Na Hong-jin, as well as the comedy-drama Kneecap by Rich Peppiatt and the sports-comedy Next Goal Wins by Taika Waititi, based on the documentary of the same title by Mike Brett and Steve Jamison.
Gomez holds acting credits in Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, Jacques Audiard’s Oscar-winning Emilia Pérez and Stephen Gaghan’s Dolittle.
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