Martha Stewart says Cate Blanchett is rumored to play her in “Good Thing” biopic — and she seems to approve
Martha Stewart says Cate Blanchett is rumored to play her in “Good Thing” biopic — and she seems to approve
Kathleen PerriconeWed, April 15, 2026 at 4:42 AM UTC
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Cate Blanchett and Martha StewartCredit: Ian West/PA Images via Getty; Astrida Valigorsky/GettyKey Points -
Martha Stewart says Cate Blanchett is set to star as the lifestyle guru in an upcoming biopic.
The film is rumored to be called Good Thing, a reference to Stewart's television catchphrase.
Stewart previously was the subject of the 2020 Netflix documentary, Martha, which she criticized.
Cate Blanchett has a knack for portraying real-life characters, everyone from the Queen of England (Elizabeth) and Katharine Hepburn (The Aviator) to Bob Dylan (I’m Not There). Could her next role be Martha Stewart?
The lifestyle guru broke the casting news, seemingly inadvertently, on Tuesday evening as she walked the red carpet at the New York premiere of Brunello: The Gracious Visionary, a documentary about Italian fashion designer Brunello Cucinelli.
Asked by a Variety reporter 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, “called Good Thing.”
Variety subsequently reported Blanchett’s casting and confirmed Janicza Bravo (2020’s Zola) will direct the biopic. A representative for the actress did not immediately respond to EW's request for comment.
Good Thing — a reference to her Martha Stewart Living catchphrase, “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 of Martha, a Netflix documentary that she publicly criticized.
"I love the first half of the documentary," she admitted to the New 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 that Martha’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 the NYT.
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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. I hate those last scenes. Hate them.”
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