‘Everything that is wrong with the human race’: inside Hollywood’s bizarre war on the leaf blower

Blanchett’s abhorrence of the leaf blower has become so renowned that she has fully leaned in, appearing in a sketch with her Borderlands co-star Gina Gershon. In Vanity Fair’s Proust questionnaire Grant answered the question “which living person do you most despise?” with “[anyone] … who uses a leaf blower”. Photograph: Nowness/CG WatkinsAnother short Leaf Blower Massacre (tagline: “When autumn arrives, no-one survives”), pays homage to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. And then there’s Leaf Blower Massacre 2. And there is one big movie star who has spoken of the leaf blower in non-combative terms.