The carpet was blue but the skies were far from it as Woody Allen's new film 'Blue Jasmine' premiered in London on Tuesday.<br/> <br />Australian actress Cate Blanchett braved the British weather to promote the film -- her first with the prolific director.<br/> <br />It tells the cautionary tale of what happens when a woman builds her life around a wealthy husband, unaware of the house of cards in which she lives.<br/> <br />Blanchett's lead character Jasmine ends up losing everything -- including her mind -- thanks to her husband's financial and marital misdeeds.<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE, Cate Blanchett, actress, saying (English):<br/> <br />"You don't want to play for an audience's sympathy, that's a little bit nauseating and chocolate box, but you've got to present the character warts and all. But Woody's films are always human, and I suppose as an actress I'm interested in, not eliciting sympathy from the audience, but trying to get them to a point of understanding, even when the character does unpalatable thi
