Cate Blanchett has revealed that her new political comedy film Rumours was named after the seminal Fleetwood Mac album.
While attending a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday (May 19), Blanchett opened up about the film and its title. After receiving a four-minute standing ovation following its premiere the night before (May 18), Blanchett said that the film was named after Fleetwood Mac’s celebrated 1977 album.
Blanchett remarked, per Variety: “I did confirm something with [director] Galen [Johnson] last night, and it’s weird that it never came up in rehearsal, which is: ‘Why the hell is this movie called Rumours?’. And my husband had said, ‘Is that after the Fleetwood Mac album?’ And you said, ‘Yes it was.’”
The film tells the story of a group of politicians who gather at a G7 summit and are tasked with forming a group statement but get entangled in debauchery and love connections.
Galen Johnson went on to explain: “‘Rumours’ the album was famously creatively fraught and everyone was sleeping with each other, so it made sense to us. No one questioned it. We thought people, producers and financiers, would be like, ‘Why Rumours?’ But no one ever questioned it, so it just made the title.”
Rumours also stars Alicia Vikander, Charles Dance, Takehiro Hira and Zlatko Burić among others. A release date for Rumours has yet to be announced.
Earlier this month, it was revealed that Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’ was named as the best-selling vinyl of the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. Fleetwood Mac was also revealed to have landed in the UK’s most streamed songs from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s in April.
