Jamie Lee Curtis Helps Cate Blanchett Avoid a Red Carpet Wardrobe Malfunction: 'I Got Her Back'

Mar. 15, 2025

Jamie Lee Curtis, Cate Blanchett attend the “Borderlands” Los Angeles Fan Event.Photo:Jon Kopaloff/Getty

Jon Kopaloff/Getty

Jamie Lee Curtisgave her co-starCate Blanchetta hand on the red carpet after she had a hilarious wardrobe malfunction.

During a red carpet appearance on Tuesday, Aug. 6, at an event for their video game-inspired sci-fi filmBorderlands, Curtis, 65, could be seen hustling to help Blanchett, 55, as she needed some help covering up, according toEntertainment Tonight.

“Nothing is going on! You know what is going on? I got her back,” Curtis said as she stood behind her co-star and seemingly held up her pants, according to the outlet, while Blanchett laughed.

“On every single movie that Jamie makes, she is the den mother,” Blanchett toldET.

Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis attend the “Borderlands” Special Los Angeles Fan Event on August 06, 2024.Leon Bennett/Getty

Leon Bennett/Getty

The actresses have previously been candid about their friendship.Speaking withThe Hollywood Reporterat the same event earlier this week, Curtis revealed that they grew close during the filming ofBorderlands.

“What I didn’t know is we’d become friends,” she told the outlet of working with two-timeOscarwinner Blanchett. “You hope you will, but you know, you make movies, you travel a lot, people travel all over the world."

“I had a great experience with her and it’s been lovely to become friends with someone who you’ve admired for such a long time,” Curtis continued. “We’ve had some really intimate moments together and she’s a beautiful person.”

Cate Blanchett attends “Borderlands” fan event in Los Angeles.Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

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Last month, Curtis also wrote in a lengthyInstagram postcaption that “the sole reason I left my family and moved to Budapest in the middle of Covid” when she was offered a part inBorderlandswas that she had the chance to work with Blanchett.

“She’s a great actress and role model and feminist and devoted, humanitarian and her work with @refugees is a great example to me of the marriage between art and ACTIVISM,” Curtis added of Blanchett and herhumanitarian workfor organizations like United Nations Refugee Agency.

The pair have been friends since the film wrapped, and evencelebrated their respective Oscar nominationstogether in January 2023 (Curtis' forEverything Everywhere All at Once,Blanchett’s forTár).

Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis pose backstage during the Palm Springs International Film Awards.Amy Sussman/Getty Images for Palm Springs International Film Society

That same month, the friends eventook a road tripto the 2023 Palm Springs International Film Awards. At the event, Curtis presented Blanchett with the festival’s Desert Palm achievement award — and took a few moments to joke about her driving skills.

“I made a condition that we drive together which immediately became an achievement competition of its own as [Blanchett] claims to be a great driver and I had to remind her that I am born and raised in the f—— city of angels,” Curtis told the audience at the award ceremony.

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“I’ve been to Palm Springs and back, high and not high, I’ve gone to Hadley’s and had a date shake a million times,” she continued. “And so, although I’m sure there are many, many things that Cate Blanchett can say about herself, and she may be under some delusion that her top three includes driving, I will beg loudly to differ…”

Borderlandshits theaters on Aug. 9.

source: people.com