Running the cash-strapped Southbank Centre: ‘We feared Cate Blanchett would get stuck in a lift!’

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Running the cash-strapped Southbank Centre: ‘We feared Cate Blanchett would get stuck in a lift!’

The head of London’s busy, brutalist arts complex says she needs funding so urgently that she might even consider giving a sponsor the right to rename itWhen an array of Hollywood royalty, from Cillian Murphy to Margot Robbie, arrived at the Royal Festival Hall for this year’s Bafta film awards, they were unaware that it was not just that evening’s nominees who were feeling nervous.“Our great fear was that Cate Blanchett would be stuck in a lift…