Trivia / Carol

• Award Category Fraud: Rooney Mara's Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress when her screentime was virtually equal to Blanchett's. This was done largely because studios seek to earn nominations and wins in the easiest way that they can, and advertising one same-sex co-lead in supporting and one in lead is often easier that campaigning for both of them in lead. Of course, as some would argue, this does a disservice to those in actual supporting roles seeking nominations.
• California Doubling: Cincinnati "plays" New York.
• Creator's Oddball: A Queer Romance (with a Happy Ending!) from Patricia Highsmith, who made her name writing bleak crime novels.
• Dawson Casting: Carol is described as being in her early-thirties, but she's played by 46-year old Cate Blanchett. Therese's age isn't stated, but she appears to be in early 20's at the most, while being played by 30 year old Rooney Mara.
• Dueling Movies: Along with The Danish Girl, this is one of two period dramas about someone struggling with being LGBT to be released in late 2015. Interestingly, both titular roles are played by recent Oscar winners, both of whom were nominated for Oscars yet again. Additionally, both feature love interests to those titular characters whose actresses earned considerable controversy for getting nominated in the Supporting Actress category when many considered them to be at the very least co-leads, if not the actual point of view characters.
• Fake American: Subverted with Australian Cate Blanchett as Carol, as Blanchett has American ancestry and citizenship since her father is from Texas, but she was still born and raised in Australia so has to fake Carol's American accent.
• He Also Did: Zak Schneider—a bartender and YouTuber in charge of SaveDataTeam’s Ace Attorney with an Actual Lawyer! series—is one of the extras in the final scene, playing a waiter who serves lobster to a table near the one Carol sits at (the camera briefly views him from behind so you can’t see his face).
• Write Who You Know: Patricia Highsmith based Carol on an ex-girlfriend of hers who had been in an identical situation.

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