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Cate Blanchett Offers an Update on Rihanna's Muppet Coats

The Ocean’s 8 cast has some great outerwear.
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Between all the cast members of the upcoming Ocean’s 8 is a closet full of great coats of many colors and textures. While Rihanna tends to be a leading force on set, wearing oversized puffers and enormous hooded fur jackets, Cate Blanchett is here to remind the world that she shouldn’t be forgotten. While out in Tribeca on January 9, Blanchett was wearing her own version of Rihanna-inspired outerwear in a long, furry, emerald-green Dion Lee coat. The texture resembled that of a shaggy Muppet, a style her co-star has popularized.

As for Rihanna, she's been sporting furry and shaggy coats for years. From her elaborate (and absolutely humongous) cape at the 2015 Met Gala designed by Guo Pei, to the now iconic, ultra-furry green Versace coat she wore to the 2015 iHeartRadio Music Awards, Rihanna’s set a precedent for channeling your inner (but very cool) muppet, and that influence seems to have spilled over on to the Ocean’s 8 set.

Though Blanchett wasn’t on the Oceans 8 set at the time she wore the green outerwear, she might as well have been. The cast seems to share a mutual love for statement coats, or perhaps they’re a pivotal force in the movie—only time will tell. Blanchett has also been spotted wearing a brown fur cape, while Sandra Bullock has been seen wearing a crisp, white fur coat, both while hanging out on set. Then there are the non-furs running around, which include Mindy Kaling’s black, double-breasted version and Sarah Paulson’s oversized cardigan. If anyone is on the fence about seeing the film when it comes out, they might as well go just for the coats.